She blew five candles
On her cake, angel
In a pink dress, hair
In little pigtails
...
You cant resist my golden curves,
my haughty angelic reserve,
I am the colors in a painter's palette,
the irresistible Charlotte.
...
As I sit on my high chair,
My mother, she feeds me,
With a tiny silver spoon,
Mashed carrots and potatoes,
...
Thin is in, thin is in
Bodies like paper, thin as fin
Thin as pencil, anemic skin
Portfolio of ribs, crying within
...
Tender skin seized with teeth
magnetic rush, poetic hush,
Little bit of pressure,
Crumbs of love, slight pull,
...
Wrapped in shinny wrappers,
golden, red, silver and brown,
chocolate, the king of sweets,
everyone's favorite treat,
...
Then with the fall of every dropp of rain,
From nimbus with a grudge,
Into the lap of lush green trees,
Splash my mother's green roof
...
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
The number of candles you blew,
And the number a years that flew
...
In all these dried mornings
And clear untold evenings
With My rambles and scribbles
My laments and stories
...
I have lived life a thousand years
at that one moment
when i hid in our arms,
as i looked in your eyes,
...
Party in the sky
You are invited to a splendid party, high in the sky
It is the best of the season you cant deny
...
Abandoned summer,
Hotter than the desert sand,
My bare body,
Trembles in your arms,
...
Under the broken bridge,
On that one silent night,
In acute misery, Rhapsodic agony,
Enraptured tunes
...
The day I loved you
My dear, I am all praise for
Your love and compassion,
Attentive gaze, The way you
...
I am the Love Goddess,
Wearing a Grecian robe,
My skin like marble
White, bathed in milk,
...
Drunk is the night,
Drunk with rain,
Drunk as I am
With ur kisses insane.
...
This is the part of me,
You want to love,
This the part of me,
You want to take,
...
In this tradition of hypocrisy,
Rich sea of shams,
Virtue hides behind sanctimony,
Watch dogs are drooling at the prize,
...
Dr.Reshma Ramesh is a bilingual poet writing in English and Kannada. Her poetry book ‘Reflection of Illusions’ (Writers Workshop) has been presented in the International Read and Share Conference attended by Asian Countries in Malaysia in April 2017. She is a member of World Congress of Poets and has presented her poetry in the 37th World Congress of poets Mongolia and Pulara 7and 8 International Poetry and Folk Song Festival Malaysia. Her poems have been presented in World Poetry Radio Show in Vancouver also have appeared in many international anthologies, journals and have been translated into Bengali, Turkish and Mongolian.She has been a guest lecture at the Narayana Engineering College Nellore for poetry and creative writing and has been a speaker at the Bangalore Literature Festival 2017. A distinction holder in BFA Photography KSOU she practices Dental Surgery in Bangalore.)
*'Daddy's Darling*
She blew five candles
On her cake, angel
In a pink dress, hair
In little pigtails
Bound in pink ribbons
She was daddy's
Apple of the eye,
They had little
Secrets and stories
Tiny, tattles and tizzies
He tucked her to
Bed every night,
Kissed her forehead
As she slept, .
Lovingly fondled
Between her legs
Bittie body bruised,
Small soul soiled,
Little heart hurt,
Bambino bosom bled,
Dainty dreams dead.
Little one is scared,
It is all her fault
Or so she is told,
Daddy wont love her
If their playful
Secret is let out
She bleeds inside,
Cant play on the slide,
Childhood denied,
Crayons cast aside,
Daddy and demon coincide.
Terrified, eyes open wide,
Home colder than winter tide,
Nightmares she cant brush aside,
She has everything to hide,
Who the hell is on her side?
(This does not come from my personal experience..I felt I had to write these lines when I read this in the news.Dedicated to all the little souls who were raped by their father....my heart goes out for them)
Beautiful and brutal, crafted in bleak reality, an uncomfortable joy to have read. Paul B
Reshma, I absolutely love every poem of yours - the shaes of life are colourful as well as dark when necessary! Keep up the good work.
I love your poems....I am trying to reach out to you as you can see any way possible in ref to Ramesh Gandecha.....VERY IMPORTANT! 7062213267
Nice poems, good translations too. Keep going dear poet Reshma Ramesh
A talented poet with a rare courage and imagination with passion, concern and mastery in art.The book is splendid.I wish many more will come in the near future.
Reshma, you have 180 poems? ? ? ! ! ! So far so good. Keep up the good writing...take a walk.
a very promising writer and your works surely shows it! i love your poem 'daddy's darling'....it touched me a lot adn one day i will too write great poems like you. writemore and prove iot to the world that the talent of writing doesnt come easily....write about things you have never written about...explore the unexplored....go deep into others hearts and find out the hidden truths....learn from all the mistakes and write to the worlds end....for the glory.....write and write and show what pleasure writing gives! ...that is my dream...and i hope you fulfil it too...
your poems are true to the spirit of the age