Miracle
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By Famida Basheer
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Miracle by Famida Basheer
Coal clouds in monsoon dense Upbeat from sea to sky The wheezy waves high wrenched to thrash.. The fisherman tights his eye And rows with speed to beat the sheet.. a rupee yearned for need His woman writhes at labour's door Heaves one new mouth to feed.. To feed with scales and fishbone soup.. To feed with starving greed..
Midsea he prays a stranger's prayer Maker! Thy will this day.. Erase these skies..undo the darks My infant's on his way.. One humble fish is all I need I plead no other pay..
The billows toss his craft in spin The darkness with the winds akin The cascades fall in scary hark And all around is naked dark....
Meek wail-cries of newbirth's protest Bestills both cloud and wave: His oar suspends all show of width His boat upends sans brave... Then...miracles writhe in strobes and glints His vessel's brimmed with leap For greater catch was never had By flesh or darker deep...
With hastened speed he oars to shore His wit in turmoil toss't To tell this gaping wonderment To those that know the cost That caused as one the nets to drag As humility to rise.. A midsea prayer from deep despair.. And bounty undisguised!
There was silence in the air that dawn On earth and in the sky For a new man was born within the man.. In his ear, his first born's cry..!!
Miracle by Famida Basheer copyright 2001 |
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Submitted: Monday, February 12, 2001
Last Updated: Monday, February 12, 2001
About the Poet
Wife, mother,grandmother (Love that part best!) writer, editor, content writer, gardener, bird lover.
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