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by Artist, India Aug 13, 2005
Culture   Poetry

  

Identity
I am an adult Indian,

An English child,

A Moghul emperor,

A Christian bride!

I stay silently in me.

The Ganges,

Himalayas

and the blue seas;

The Prince of Wales museums

UNO, the

statue - of liberty’s;

converge, creating their ‘I’s in me…


To me are precious

the temple and the mosque,

gurdwaras, churches

and the synagogues;

I have listened to the Gita,

Grisham, Tagore,

De, P.G., Premchand, Steinbeck

and more;

….rhythmically to their scores in me…..


I’ve found joy

in sunlit green grasses glistening with dew,

roses, tulips, grasshoppers,

baby bears, the solemn kangaroo;


Thankyou mother

for everything

I can read, write,

and play in spring,

my mind is free -

not shackled

‘in narrow domestic walls’:

Tagore’s poems

teaching me:

“a citizen of this world”.

At times lost, but I’m sure

to ever uphold

your gifts, your eyes in me.

Thank you mother!


Smeetha Bhoumik























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