Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Peace poems of Dr Rita Malhotra on display at John Lennon Tower,Iceland

Peace
distant sea-gulls
trace the homeward path
across silent skies, boundless
above the infinite silver expanse,
draped in swathes of tranquility
harvest of peace!

desert-scape of thoughts
sense of reality lost in
rocking rhythms of nature
soulful brush-strokes of quiet calm
on the mind’s canvas
oasis of peace!

rose and marigold petals
at the temple door and
the embrace of a thousand gods
tame the racing, unheeding time
metamorphosed sensitivity!

in the chorus of the burbling brook,
rustling leaves ,the sailing breeze
and time’s soft footfalls
dreams wake up to the
salutation of quietude!

overcome by a finite sense of completeness
realization dawns that
peace is not just a road
nor a direction
peace is an eternal journey.

Elsewhere-land
the raft recedes
from the hammered land,
a screaming earth
and blood-raining skies

I leave behind my ripped roots,
the absent coherence
of a people
trapped in hissing flame,
in soot-black fog
of rising smoke.
I leave behind the sinking earth
where evil-tainted wretched roads
lie buried beneath
sediments of human history

memory lingers awhile
before being swept away
by the tide of time

I seek refuge
in the ship’s beckoning arms
as it sets sail
to the else where-land
the land of peace.

4 comments:

Lezlie Tripathy said...

I'm Lesliey Love(Leslie Tripathy),I had spoken to Yu ova phone during Poetry conference,my email is youthiconleslietripathy@gmail.com,do email me Yor numb.I finally googled Yu.Grt to read Yor delectable poems.

Dr. Rita Malhotra said...

thanks Leslie..do be in touch...rita

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Unknown said...

Its an honour to be Your Student Ma'am. Such an intensity in expression existed even in your Maths classes.