Earth's Daughter

by Dr. Sunil Sharma

Her golden cheeks,
Ripening wheat,
Her
Gentle gait,
Tender grass prancing,
Young full body,
Like the palm trees,
Gracefully moving,
In the scented breeze,
The coarsely-clad
Shy maiden,
Standing alone in the
Rolling green fields,
In the secluded valley,
On this splendid morning,
Tending the field for her family,
That resides merrily,
In a rough dwelling,
In the village outlined,
In the background
In the shivering fog,
Sweeping down the
Serpentine black road,
The big family that lives
By the sweat of their brows

A happy daughter,
Bursting out of the earth,
Like the modern-day Artemis,
Dazzling everyone with
Her purity and innocence,
This shy earth-daughter,
A solitary reaper-figure
Seen earlier by wandering Romantic poet,
Then forgotten again,
And rediscovered outside
An Indian suburb,
By a distant descendant
Of W. Wordsworth.

22-Nov-2012

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Comments on this Poem

Thanks Padmaja for your kind encouragement. The words mean a lot.

Sunil Sharma
10-Mar-2014 07:49 AM

Ah, lovely poem! Prof. Sharma, if ok please send me a mail to my id: padmaja_iyengar@yahoo.co.in. Would like to share some information on literature and poetry...Thanks & Regards. Padmaja Iyengar. Please do check out my writes too posted on this site...

Padmaja Iyengar
10-Mar-2014 00:28 AM