Poetry Corner In honor of April being National Poetry Month, we are excited to share a few poems written by Megha Sood and Aarohi Talati
Poems by Megha Sood Heritage Ask a child, ask a butterfly Those shriveled wrinkled fingers passing on that family album with a fleeting touch has passed on the generations under our feet Those quivering shaking voices singing the lullaby at night and the sparkling stories jumped hoops from generations, is scattering the wisdom worth eons in mere minutes Those bony taloned hands singing and crocheting the praises of the holy ancestors is bringing back live the drawing etched in the old forgotten caves Those bay leaf cinnamon-laced fingers doused and soaked turning the wrapped yellow broken paper of centuries-old recipes is keeping the taste alive in the dying taste buds That wisdom in the scriptures spanning the gates of times Our heritage, Our roots, Our road to salvation. 50
Every small step counts. Every small gesture matters. Kindness comes in all forms. Accept and embrace it when you see it. Pass it forward. It is like the flowing river, shaping and changing the lives of those who come along its way. Keep flowing and Keep growing. Life never stops from growing nor from making mistakes. You stop and stagnate like the ditch of stinking water. Flow like a waterfall. A beautiful sight in its glory. Life is movement. Change is a necessary transformation. Ask a child, ask a butterfly.
About Megha Sood Megha Sood is a two time State-level winner of the NJ Poetry Contest 2018/2019, a national level poetry finalist in Poetry Matters Prize 2019, Honorable mention in Pangolin Poetry Prize 2019, and Finalist in Adelaide Literary Award 2019. She is a contributing member at Free Verse Revolution, Whisper and the Roar and Poetry editor at Ariel Chart and Mookychick. Sood has over 350 works in journals and featured in 35 print anthologies by the US, UK, Australian, and Canadian Press. APRIL 2020 - WWW.DESHVIDESH.COM
