Theme : Love
Smile in His Sleep
by A. Thiagarajan
A bend around
the tiny little clutch
Sleep, hands across above his head.
I bent over to cover him with a sheet
He pushed it aside with mumbling unclear
A big broad fulfilling smile his lips convey
What could it be for ?
What dreams and worlds you are in ?
No son, I don’t wake you up to see...
No world or dream for us
Sans any admonishing psalm, a sweatless brow
Sans fences and frontiers
Happy you fly in the realms and skies
With no care for towers nor the runway
No wings that clip over time
For my part-
the only thing I can do
Is not to wake you up
For any food or fruit-nor milk
Nor to me and the likes of me.
August 6, 2006
The
poem first published in Subtle Tea.
Image
under license with Gettyimages.com
The Week of August 6, 2006
A Poem by Shernaz Wadia
A Query by Jay 'Aarzoo'
A Spark of Life by Walter Durk
Alone by Walter Durk
Autumn Mist by Matthew Brackley
Azanee, Lady of Elegance by Khadim Hussain
Circumstances by Wangdi Gyalpo
Desert Mountains in Leh by Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D
Differently Beautiful by Shernaz Wadia
Golden Eagle Rising by Matthew Brackley
Kinu Goala's
Alley by Kumud Biswas
Man and Wife by Archana Shukla
Monarch by Dr. Christine Redman-Waldeyer
Rain by Lavanya Shah
Revenge by Annu Chopra
Sanctum Sanctorum by Aparna Chatterjee
Seasons by Lavanya Shah
Smile in His Sleep by A. Thiagarajan
Taking Stock by Sucharita Dutta-Asane
The Essence of Life by Walter Durk
Violence by A. Thiagarajan
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