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POETRY
ASIAN NEWTON
FREEDOM
ANJAN K NATH
Sir Isaac Newton, scientist most able,
His historic sleep, now almost a fable.
Let us consider, however, if our man was Asian,
And instead of apple, the tree bore durian:
The situation would then undoubtedly be
Not one of levity,
But certainly, that of gravity!
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TULIKA SRIVASTAVA
It was when Fear ruled my heart;
With a face pale and eyes red,
I would catch the closest, dearest hand.
Soothe myself with companionship
With dreams shaped and acts planned.
Bound by fear and shackled by love,
Life seemed to make the perfect sense.
When I thought I had no boundaries defined;
Was when I staunchly had built a fence.
The day when Freedom knocked my door,
Disillusionment came along.
But gradually, the eyes twinkled,
And danced away with great aplomb.
With no hand to hold or fear defined.
I now walk like a bare soul.
Where the deafening silence envelopes me,
Where misery, derision & temerity unfold.
Blessed with seclusion, I wondered what it meant.
When life defined freedom with its knowledge
profuse;
I curved my lips with a smile of consent
And freedom became another word for nothing left
to lose…
Anjan Nath is an Associate Professor at
the Department of Foreign Languages and
Literature, Tunghai University, Taiwan. He
grew up in Shillong, India, studying at St.
Edmund’s College, and then on to North Eastern
Hills University from where I graduated with
a Ph.D. in English Literature. He has written
for several publications in the field of literature, language, philosophy, and homeopathic
and folk medicine.
Tulika Srivastava is a young writer with deep
thoughts. She puts into her poetry the simple
truths of life.
eFiction India | June 2014