Sunday, March 27, 2005

Goddess ....

Black window and other poems by Deepti Naval


i'm DURGA
i' m KALI - the Goddess
no one can conquer me

she plucked the crown of the idol's head
and she wore it on her self

the crowds were aghast !..they swore at her
chased her wid stones, sticks, screams


but she slipped into the woods
flying beyond their reach

at the magic hour
when sun and rain dazzle the earth

she danced and skipped
chasing a single rainbow

and then the villagers got her


they signed on a single piece of paper
dumped her in the looney bin

wiped the vermillion of her forehead
chopped her long black hair

razed it to scalp
locked her behind the solid grill



left her sqealing..... on the dank floor



- an excerpt from the poem







5 comments:

Ashes said...

I didn't read the poem.

The title of the blog reminds me of a movie which i disliked a lot.

Were you in an asylum sometime?

Anonymous said...

isn't dat where we met ?

-Saby

Rex Venom said...

Interesting poem! And I guess I am atheist, or something like that. I don’t begrudge someone else’s belief in god and all that, and I hope they find some sort of comfort or strength in their beliefs, but I just don’t really get religion on a whole.

Jim said...

ur a good man Rex
religion dont matter

ur a good man Rex
and dat is all Jesus wants u to be

De.vile said...

FEMINIST. thats wut it says all over. anti-sati, anti-infanticide all over again.