Professed striving, thriving in kitchen life
Woman of yesterday was a home maid
Call her not a homemaker or housewife
A home maid unpaid and future benighted
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I like the repetition and aliteration in this. It makes for a real musicality that underlies the anger of the narrative. The final line is an excellent ending and show great restraint in its usage.
she has saved for her death expense...you don't get to see true indian poems which brings out the life style of indian woman[not now].in this site..you have presented it very well mam....thank you again madam for the support and appreciation you have given me right from beginning...even in tamil i saw to it that in my poem the word don't carry the poem..it is the thought..which i thought should be poetic and for a person like me not very rich in poetic vocabulary..this suited me..iam lucky that the english most of them write in simple language..regarding subjects i think you also deal with a variety...i have tried a few senryu's 5-7-5 which i learnt from carl harris and sandra maitryes, , try them