[For Mamta Agarwal who has set it off with her Monsoon At Peak, Muse India, Jul 23,2009]
Monsoon at peak
Men sucked
Into manholes
Monsoon at peak
Clogged drains
Traffic snarls
Monsoon at peak
Anticipating it
The bill-keen contractor
Patches up the road
Just the day before
Monsoon at peak
Pushing my car
Dripping with sweat
Monsoon at peak
Drinking water
And drain
In illicit sex
Monsoon at peak
Dogs and birds
Waiting in starvation
Along with beggars
Monsoon at peak
Bespectacled
Wishing
They had wipers
Monsoon at peak
Reluctant shutting
Of doors and windows
Mopping the ‘power’less floor
In dark suffocation
Monsoon at peak
Tickets sold out
Match cancelled
Monson at peak
Shopkeepers
Counting raindrops
Monsoon at peak
Mother earth
Having bath
To heart’s content
Monsoon at peak
Inexpensive honeymoon
For newly weds
Monsoon at peak
Mamta
In her torrent of poetry
[Jul 24,2009: : Hyderabad - 500 056]
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Probably only Indians can unterstand the importance of monsoon rains and its force. I like it