By TCN News,
New Delhi: Two poems of an English faculty of Jamia Millia Islamia, Dr. Roomy Fakhrul Naqvi, have been published in an Online Magazine “Visual Verse” based in UK and Berlin.
Naqvi,an alumnus of the same department of the University has been teaching several papers in English at the Department of English for about two decades now.
Poems written by Naqvi have been published in the same magazine earlier too. A promising poet, he has betrayed great sensitivity to represent reality around him.
The two poems published are:
“The Two-Horned, Toy Unicorn”
The dark shadows with the shrapnel pierce me,
The white fence hems my world in,
The cars mechanize my world within,
Long ago, swaying trees were lost to me.
The electric current fills me, makes me raving mad,
The eerie silence, listless skies is all I ever had.
And then, the two-horned, toy unicorn,
Never seen before, nor seen ever after,
Makes an appearance.
I don’t need antidepressants now,
The Unicorn’s sheer white
Is the milk of kindness I need.
“JUST A DONKEY”
When there are snazzy cars,
Swimming pools around you,
The glory of fenced places,
The skies look so grand.
But then you are just a donkey,
Braying around, nobody listening,
They call you a donkey,
Laugh a bit, kick you around.
But it is good to be a donkey,
You carry their burdens,
They laugh their warmth away,
You carry it inside you.