RASHMI JAIN
CURSE OF
MEDUSA
Beauty gifted Medusa the curse of
life-time.
The temple of Athena,
took her to grave.
A death in life-time,
Transformed into a terrible monster
Hairs thickened into hissing
snakes,
And a curse,
Her enchanting eyes will turn
gazer to a stone.
Change is irrevocable.
Mirror reflection will turn her to
a stone.
The beauty of which she was
boastful,
brought downfall.
Was it her mistake that she was
bestowed with immense beauty?
Poseidon crushed her fate by
violating her sanctity.
The victim is punished instead of
victimizer.
Perseus beheaded her and made her a
weapon.
An evil-averting device, on
Athena’s shield.
Mother of Pegasus and Chrysaor
Her intertwined snake belt
symbolizes fertility.
The supreme talisman,
Symbol of female rage and nihilism.
Her plight was pitiable but none
pitied her.
Medusa’s fate betrayed her but
The curse of Medusa made her
immortal.
The curse of Medusa made her
immortal.
MY CUCKOO
BIRD
My cuckoo bird sings melodious
tunes
Who knows she sings or mourns?
Sometimes she gets scared
of the cage.
I could feel that distress in
silence,
I wonder whether her songs express
merriment or outpour of pain.
I wish to understand her tunes.
She loves sunshine,
Spreads her wings in cage as if
ready to fly,
but all in vain.
She stares the sky every day,
Once I opened the gate of the cage,
She watched me with astonishment,
Spread her wings and rushed out
with full speed.
Her flight was unmatchable and
extraordinary.
She returned to me and twittered as
if saying
Goodbye.
I wished her luck, with tears in my
eyes
of happiness and distress.
My bird flew to a new world,
The world of Freedom!
ETERNAL
LOVE
Love is like a budding flower of
spring.
It walks through the hot ambers of
summers,
Sometimes it breaks like an
autumnal leaf and
freezes in wintry snow.
But love is love.
It melts all the impurities,
Reshapes itself with time to become
the
new blossom of spring.
Love doesn’t signify one season,
It is complete in itself.
Love is eternal.
RASHMI JAIN
Dr RASHMI JAIN is an Indian bilingual poet/author/ reviewer
who write in English and Hindi (mother language). She lives in Allahabad, Uttar
Pradesh, India. At present she is working as a Guest Faculty of English at
University of Allahabad. Her collection of poems entitled Kaleidoscopic Visions
has been published by Authorspress in 2015. Her poems, research papers and
reviews are published in reputed journals and magazines like The Criterion,
International Journal of Research, Episteme, Setu, Lapis Lazuli, Langlit,
Poetic Melodies, Kastoori Kanchan etc.
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