Poemoods (Anthropocene fusion poems depicting moods of nature, species, people, capturing events)
Dr. Nandkumar Kamat I :Fireflies: I stayed awake the whole night; And nights after nights; To glimpse a few stray Flipping greenish photons; Of airborne creatures of light Fireflies! I see a void dark fathomless; Ashes of an ecosystem A sodium street lamps vomits Monochromatic photons An ecofriendly solar streetlight Radiates white eerie glow The void of the night has no creatures of light This is extinction, This is annihilation, This is vinasha, The nights have lost the glowing innocence A monochromatic diffusion permeates Throughout….. This is simplification This is deprivation This is epitaph On the tomb of my existence What tribute does one species pay to other species? In what form? Words, bones, ashes, blood, tears, sperms? I still stay awake, possessed, Nights after nights Expecting to be bathed in that fantastic glow Of greenish airborne trees of life! Swarms of Fireflies! To seek salvation Liberation… >From chains all artificial..inhuman…insane! II :Monserrate watching a man cleaning the flooded Santa Inez creek: I am watching Babush Monserrate- who’s Watching a man with the head just above The murky waters Trying to declog the Santa inez creek; It is a different kind of voyeurism! It is possible that the reams and reams of My writeups, reports On the condemned creek, Abused, mass raped by the builders, Were thrown as raddi and Have blocked the flow of the creek What use is wisdom In this rotten city On the brink of a forced mass suicide An Ecocide? III :Images of Kushavati floods: And unquiet flows Kushavati, She is angry, she is bleeding, Every watershed, Every valley, Every bank Every micrometer Has been tortured, The flat , vast sheets of turbulent waters, Stagnated traffic, Cursing people, There is blood on everyone’s hand, Every palm is stained, Muddy waters, Bloody waters; Mud, blood, And unquiet flows Kushavati, Carrying the wet fluid wounds, Feeling lost, Abandoned, Hurt, Helpless, Orphaned, By her sons, her daughters, Everyone, Everywhere Everywhen! June 27, 2010. -- Dr. Nandkumar Kamat, GOA
