Poem - Whispers from the Wood, Poetess - Shah Jehan Ashrafi (Mauritius)
Whispers from the Wood
Shah Jehan Ashrafi
The wood breathes
and gives birth
to its secret wings.
The wind recites
a forgotten poem.
Trees become spires
and whisper mantras
to heal the world.
They whirl and wriggle—
in vain.
Owls wear crowns
and watch ferns
and misty moss.
They know this time,
and want to hear
a lullaby to sleep tight.
The moon becomes
drunk and points
toward the poison ivy.
They talk about
Mother Earth,
who coughs
and weeps, her hands
stained with blood.
Together they talk about Time—
a prisoner
to war and crime.
They see morality
dissolving like
melting rain.
The world is thirsty—
a cracked, barren land.
The forest cries,
and shakes like a trembling leaf.
The moon watches,
holding a helpless wand.
It pines to heal and change
the fissure in the human world.
©®Shah Jehan Ashrafi
Swapner Vela Sahitya Patrika (The Raft of Dreams Literary Magazine) is a Bilingual magazine in which Bengali and English literature are published from Aurangabad, MSD, W.B. Editor - Md Ejaj Ahamed
Swapner Vela Sahitya Patrika (The Raft of Dreams Literary Magazine) is a Bilingual magazine in which Bengali and English literature are published by Md Ejaj Ahamed from Aurangabad, Murshidabad, West Bengal, India
