cyberwit
Category:
Poetry
Publisher: www.cyberwit.net
ISBN-13: 8182530075
Author: Roopa Menon & Ruby Moses Ezekiel Binding: Paperback (pp: 107) ISBN: 81-8253-007-5 Availability: In Stock (Ships within 1 to 2 days) Publisher: Cyberwit.net, Allahabad, India Pub. Date: 2004
NEW POETIC VOICES is a Masterpiece Collection of poems by Roopa and Ruby. These poems will inspire you by their incomparable power of style, technical mastery, and an intense imaginative power. The poems are the creation not of talent but of genius. “Genius like imagination is creative; and talent like fancy, merely combinatory” (Coleridge). This collection is often at its greatest when it is most concrete. That Roopa and Ruby, indeed, have a rare gift is evident in this collection.
I am a Girl
By Roopa Menon
I am girl,
I didn't know it mattered.
But now in my teens,
I know it makes a difference.
Living as a teen girl,
Is living a life,
With freedom and restrictions,
Both seem to function antagonistically.
Every thing I do,
Seems all related to that some day,
That someday when I get married,
I am supposed to be polite,
Well mannered and disciplined.
I was to keep my room spic and span,
Because if I don't learn it now,
Then some day, that somebody,
Would probably kick me out.
I wish all this was told,
So I am a better person,
And it develops my personality,
So that I am independent,
And not for that someday,
When I am to get married.
My life is all mine,
It doesn't have to sound,
Like a training session,
For that some day,
When I am to get married.
I wish to live with the innocence of a child,
Freedom of a teenager,
Maturity of a young girl.
I wish my choices were all mine,
My decisions were all mine,
And my life was all mine!
With everything I do,
Be for me and my good,
And not for that some day,
Nor for that some body.
I wish to be accepted,
Like the way I am and
The way I think,
I wish to improve and
Keep improving my life and me,
For being a good person,
But not for anyone else.
Because,
I don't know about the rest of the world,
But I am a girl,
And I am proud of it.
[A poem from NEW POETIC VOICES]
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