Earth - Woman
Snow drifts
You come across in a trance
Blindfolded to your own heavenly blessings.
There's chatter on the wings of night
Heat haze
Eerie in silence.
Echoes of bird flights
Meteors and razed settlements
Where water used to be.
Ravenous appetites on crushed boulders
In depths, immersed hues
Some oceans
Topaz in bloodied hands.
The one who births
Seeks
Safe havens!
Earth. Earth. Refuge.
Hearth.
Torn asunder,
Strands of hair
Gripped and pulled
Large tracts now
Barren.
Fruits and young:
Lost waste lands
Scouring drops of mercy.
Heat haze
You arrive,
You take it in,
Blindfolded to your own eternal blessings...
Smeetha Bhoumik, winner of the 2023 Reuel International Award for Poetry, is a poet, artist and editor. She is founding editor -Yugen Quest Review (2021) and founder –WE Literary Community (2016). Her poems feature in national and international journals and anthologies. Her poetry has flown to the moon as part of the Polaris Trilogy in the Lunar Codex; thus aligning her early Universe Series artwork with her poetry in beauteous synchronicity! Her work featured at the Panorama International Literature Festival, 2024. Her sestina 'Tiara of Gleaming Peaks, Our Talisman', features in The Mountain Was Abuzz, an anthology edited by the exceptional mountaineer, author, former air force officer Toolika Rani.
