Poems by Sara

Poems by Sara Abraham / Omanakutty Varghese

1
Distance- that’s all
That exists between
You and me
Distance- that’s all
That I saw in everything
I came across
Distance- I adore thee.

2
They say it twinkles
Between six and six thirty
There, at the door-step
Every day, I see that dull face
Greeting me
It adds to my sorrows
I loathe it
Yet, one day, when I
Stood there, it looked
Brighter, than usual.

3
The brightness, fast
Coming to a close
The sun hurries
To sink yonder
And soon dusk
Still
Hours pass by –
Yet another morn
Shaking all darkness
Sweat merges with heat
The brightness, fast
The sun hurries
To sink yonder
And soon dusk
Still

4
Radha came by the right
He beheld her by the right
Bhama came by the left
He beheld her by the left
“Do you love me”
Queried Radha
‘I love you both”
He quoth
“Have I been slighted”
Radha asked aloud
“Nay, never”
Consoled Bhama.

5
Neither gray hair
Nor old age
Brings death nearer
It’s the sting in the heart
The deeper, the earlier.

6
Into the night
I peered
The vast sky
A roof
The tree- tops
Still
The breeze
At bay
The houses
Statues
Nature-
Painted.
In my mind.

7
“Come.
Come nearer
Don’t stand apart
Why? Why this distance?
Come closer
I invite you.”

8
It stinks
Nostrils close
It’s no more
It hunted prey
It became prey
Now it stinks
No more.

9
Momentum
Mirth and Joy crumpled
Devouring pain surmounted
Breathless;
Stillness crept –
Corpse.

10
The road I tread
Is long, longer than I thought
The work I do
Is hard, harder than I deemed
The breath I heave
Is rare, rarer than pearls
The image I carry
Is heavy, heavier than gold
This end I reach
Is, with difficulty,
After a time.

11
A dug earth
A handful of seeds
Fertilizer
Moisture
Air
Sunlight
Burial …
Roots downward
Shoot upward
A painful slit
Visible
Birth.

12
‘Is it my colour
That attracts you? ‘
‘No, the breeze
My wings flutter’
“But, why towards me?”
“HONEY.”

13
The tumultuous thunder
The luminous lighting
The clouded stay
My heavy heart.

14
The pouring rain
The roaring wind
The muddled road
My troubled tread.

15
The hush-hush silence
The fire-dark night
The hoots of the owl
My restful mind.

16
The trickle
Time
Torn
Treasureless.

17
The sweat, the heat
The rain, the axe
The two hands
The tree fell down.

18
My stomach
Touches my backbone
Starvation
My lullaby

19
Toil and sweat
Came to rest,
Tools laid down
To retire,
The day ended –
To illuminate
The other half.

20
Nocturnal
Wake up
Ears run
Fear in each.

21
My aim
Unattained
My gain
Unobtained
My labour
Satisfaction
My prize?
Dreams.

22
Destiny
Designed
Moulded
Differed patterns
Changed traditions.

23
Shrill calls
Pierce through
Break the slumber
Of the silent morn.

24
Knot
From behind
Round the neck
Loose
Not a noose
Slave.

25
Shivers from inside
I need wrapper
‘Those who have two
Give one to the other.”
……Rapture

26
The merging
Of the earth
And the sea
The waves
Drift away
To nestle again.

27
A thousand colours
Mingled
A spread
In the horizon
Perfection.

28
Alphabets arranged,
Words formed,
Words formed,
Sensible sentences
In vogue.

29
From where I stood
I watched the moon
No block,
Save coconut heads
Soon, the pale-face
Rose higher
To reach my sight
Later, the cloud,
Formed a veil.

30
We know,
We think we know;
We know not.
31
I always thought
I saw the rabbit
In the moon
Today,
The Chinese damsel.
The astronauts,
Rocks.

32
Lighting thunder rain
Getting drenched
I ran
I found
This apartment.

33
Crimson luminous
In the west
Sinking –
Yellow flamboyant
In the east
Rising

34
A child
A house full.

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