Inspired By Tagore

"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."
Rabindranath Tagore


Rabindranath Tagore is such an inspiring poet. I love the positive outlook he has on life that shines through in his writing. Recently, as in, a few months ago, I won a prize for the International Writing Competition: "Inspired by Tagore", a good feeling to know that I can inspire others too :-)

Here is the poem that won a prize from the competition :-)


Refugee Prayer


When I think about peace
I always think about a calm place

white

awash with sounds

wind lifting dunes

like the curls of a fossil

somewhere

where the gun does not point at my father

and me

nor beats my mother

I remember the day Communist soldiers stole

her wedding ring

tossed it on the ground

where the red opal stirs memory

bleeding this changeling to madness

somewhere

where there is no machine gun rattle

as mother tucks me in bed

while she whispers a prayer

for an island across the sea

away from this rubble of a country

lying awake on the refugee boat

listening to the vast ocean

making conversation

peace

          peace
                    peace