Tuesday, September 30, 2008

BLESSINGS FOR AN ENGINEERING RACE by ANNIE ZAIDI


(Annie Zaidi is a Delhi-based poet and professional journalist. The poem is reproduced from http://www.pratilipi.in/)

May you not give birth to monsters.
May your children not have the haunchesof a pig.
May your pigs not have hornsfrom highland cows.
May your salmon be wild and your prawns unfarmed.
May your goats be purebred
and your cotton, white gold.
May you bloom and grow
bloom and grow
and may you know when to stop.

1 comment:

yash said...

Poetry is destined to be interpreted in differnt ways by different people.This is , perhaps, the essence of poetry.
I wish to know the implied meaning of the poetry regarding the engineering race.
I think that this poetry about engineeing race reflects the symptoms of prejudice.
If it is different from this, then i need to work hard on literature.