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Yearning

(Written from the heart of a child being born who is abandoned)

Nestled inside the warm fluid
Thud…thud…thud….thud
A reassuring beat of the heart
Your blood becomes mine
Why am I being shoved out?
This is my home, this is my cocoon
No! No! I wail….I shout! !
Open my eyes and get flooded by light
Passed from one hand to another until
A warm set of hands, ….feel so right
Hugged to her chest….hear the same heartbeat!
I dont want to go anywhere from here
My lips find her nipple and I suckle
And I fall asleep…….

I wake up in another place…..alone
Where is She? Where has she gone?
I wail and wail….please hear me and come back
I need your comforting arm and heart beat
Nobody comes, left all alone in this heat
Hungry, I cry again.
After hours somebody finds me
Lifts me up in his arms
And I am passed again from one to another
Yearning for her touch
I live in a daze

8 Comments

An amazing write up. Really touching and expressed in its best way.

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Beautiful, intense & very heartrending poem simply written and simply outstanding. A intense beauty in simplicity.
A tear did emerge from eyes which have forgotten how to cry, in response to the feelings invoked. Don’t know why.

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An intense meaniful poem on the current
situation. I hope you had seen my poem
about an abandoned child, posted, a few
days back.

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medhini Reply:

Renu;
Just add one more poem, soon,
for a century take.

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Good……………………….A touch of difference in style again…………Loved it…..

Yearning for her touch is a good line to end with…..

The first few lines again feels like your trademark…….all the fluid and heat thing………..Reading the first few lines you can confidently say, its Renu’s poem………………rest of the lines spin up to make a new style and has a lot of newness in it…………….

Nestled inside the warm fluid
Thud…thud…thud….thud
A reassuring beat of the heart
Your blood becomes mine

Stars = 5

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i love it
the flow
the emotions
style
the use of onomatopoeia
lovely

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rajdeep Reply:

@rajdeep, i loved it ma’am

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amazingly beautiful
xtremely simple and yet so touching….

its hard to see things from someone else’s eye, nd its even harder to do that for some1 who just cant share wat he feels… nd u have done it so well… full justice done to the thought nd the subject chosen….

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