Smog Poem by Nosheen Irfan

You have very articulately correlated the nature's effect on human mind and nicely described the emotional condition.........Amusing and a perfect 10. My pick rom above poem: To dispel the smog in mind It's not easy to find The meanings, the answers Things are so torn..........

Both conditions lead to an unhealthy darkness. A very well conceived and presented poem.

I read LIFE HAS ITS WAYS first, before SMOG, and I think the two poems talk to each other. In some ways the second poem answers some of the issues raised in SMOG, in the sense of our emotional responses to setbscks in personal life. But it doesn't deal with societal problems like smog, that is a technical & politicial issue. as individuals we can't solve such things, but we can adjust our lives for the duration. Psychologically this is a poem of crisis; at the end you are exhausted and drained. Your spirits are too low to consider actions. In that sense the poem comes to a dead end: a problem is clearly stated but no solution seems possible. The poem ends in a kind of stasis, even paralysis. But somedays later you wrote LIFE HAS ITS WAYS and the emotional healing begins.

Hi Nosheen, High level of atmospheric pollution causes smog in the cities of the sub-continent, in the winter. Now Delhi is smog-choked and the Govt has decided to shut the schools for a few days. I remember a minor crisis we had undergone, a few years back. Our daughter was doing her BTech inVellore, Tamil Nad, down South, and we were in Delhi. She had come to visit us for the Christmas-New year holidays, and was returning by an early night flight. After the passengers had boarded, it was announced that the take off is delayed due to fog. After a few hours, we thought we would cancel her trip. But, then passengers were not allowed to alight. We kept our fingers until 12.30 after mid-night, when finally the flight took off. And she reached Chennai by 2.30 early morning, early enough to catch her train to Vellore. But you have spoken of the smog clouding the minds. Thoughts. Here too, I believe, we should try to remove all the pollutants like stress from the mind, so that mind and thought process become clearer. Good write. Thank you for sharing.

A beautiful poem, penned with a complete control on describing inner and outer environment.

These times are a heavy weight. Sometimes it seems that war, pollution and confusion are all there is.

You have made the inner landscape and the outer merge in a synchronized way....! When the climate turns foggy, it will adversely affect our mindset too! Hope it will clear fast and you'll be able to see bright light, illumining the inside and outside! Great write, Nosheen!