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Let us gather together, women, even if in our own homes, and take back the freedom we all were denied by the violence upon us.
(A poem loosely inspired by or based on the poem of resistance and empowerment titled ‘Still I Rise’ penned by Maya Angelou, which I intend to share with fellow poets, humanists, and with all my women comrades in the month of March, the phenomenal #WomensHistoryMonth)
Let’s talk about a prayer of a clear, azure sky After explosives have burnt and exhausted themselves in the streets.
Let’s read ‘Still I Rise’, the fiery utterances Of a burnt out poet after our darkest dreams With their dead limbs and hands, return to their shivering abyss.
Let’s free the landscape of our desires, exploding into screams While in the deep, dark grave of our yesteryears Primordial venom of oppression writhes, burns.
Let’s adopt, steal, borrow the unwritten manuscripts Of our violated kith and kin, and eulogize them, Let the countercurrent of our scribbled verses Settle in our skins, boiling like ‘resistance’.
Let’s rain like adamant cloudburst, Descending on flooded rivers on a high tide night.
With the deep, dark rain poems we bleed, The muddy river bank finds solace in chaos.
Hope encircles the nakedness, growing Like an undying flame as pyres burn, Dark graves are laid to rest.
Let’s warm the pulse of hope even as our embers die out, Surreptitiously, unannounced.
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Lopamudra Banerjee is an author, poet, translator, editor with eight published books and six anthologies in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She has been a featured multicultural woman poet at Rice University, Houston, USA in 2019 read more...
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