Millions of babies watching the skies
Bellies swollen, with big round eyes
On Jessore Road–long bamboo huts
Noplace to shit but sand channel ruts
Millions of fathers in rain
Millions of mothers in pain
Millions of …
Archive for the ‘Grandmother Poems’ Category
A grandmother has a special talent-
She always knows just what to do
To make her grandchildren happy
And to show she loves them, too.
At the family get-togethers,
She’s the first person to look …
In the middle of our porridge plates
There was a blue butterfly painted
And each morning we tried who should reach the
butterfly first.
Then the Grandmother said: “Do not eat the poor
butterfly.”
That made …
Robins of destiny
Bringing the spring
Are wing loads of ecstasy
Swinging life’s pendulum
Winter to better.
Caught in mid-arc
Of unleashed swinging
One bit of robin-bright,
One briefest glimmer
Between weather and summer
Is only a promise.
Faith is a …