Re: [ZESTPoets] To Daddy

[ronnie banerjee]

  Dear Vidya     this conversational style is good. I like it. The poem is honest without any attempt to stylize or with it tending towards pomposity. Ur poems seem to be like that. Even ur "globalisation" was direct. The style seems to be getting to the meat of the matter without further ado.   The style in this poem is the dramatic monologue. Read "the Last Duchess" surely..  Ron   vidyanjali_1980 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:    Reading all these poems dedicated to parents, I got tempted to write one for my father. Father had always desired that I write a poem for him and I thought of
 utilising this occasion in making an attempt. Hope you all enjoy it...!  To Daddy  Dad, do you remember   That creamy yellow t-shirt which I wore   As a baby with these words,   "I love Daddy" inscribed on it?  Look here is the picture of it!  > >  I still love you dad,  Twenty years later, from that day   When this picture was
 taken,  I still love you, for the way in which  You would come and wake me up  In the mornings singing those stupid  Old Tamil songs into my ear, so loud,  That I would get irritated and throw the pillows on you!  > >  I still love you, for the way in which  You would hide money in your spectacle-case  Instead of your leather wallet, thinking
   That I wouldn't find out, when I come asking for it!  And you would believe your money is   All safe inside it… unless you find  Out how I'd emptied it, sneaking   Into your room when you were away!  > >  I still love you, for the way in which  You would crack those dirty shit-and-fart jokes  Right when mom would sit down to eat 
 (The thing she hates the most!)  And irritate her so much that she'd walk out   Angrily and you would sing an old Kishore da  Song to make her smile again!  > >  I still love you, for the way in which  You would bore me to death  With all that philosophical talk of yours  And when I walk away, disregarding you,  You would say nothing   And with a serious nodding of the head   Would convey that I'm forgiven   When I would later come and say `sorry'!  > >  I still love you, though you haven't stopped   Smoking those cigarettes- they are so suffocating!  (Remembered, you'd promised me long ago that you would?)  And taking rum, though I have shown you  So many newspaper articles that talk about   The ill-effects of alcohol consumption…  I care for you, dad, and I just can't bear   To see those chest bones now jutting   Out of your thin, frail frame…  > >  Oh! I know now what you'd say.  You'd talk about the inevitability of death,  That it must come in some way or the other  And it doesn't matter…but not this way, dad,  Not this way, for ever since you retired  You have been shrinking into some lonely corner  And seem so distant,   Though I have you seated next to me…             
		 
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