Herojit Philem – Winter Rain

Herojit Philem – Winter Rain

 

Herojit Philem, founder, publisher and editor of Literary Garland, is a teacher, poet, lyricist and blogger. He is from Manipur, India. His poems have appeared in various anthologies, magazines, newspapers.

Winter Rain

O Winter Rain,

Had you come to wash the taint or to add more pain?

On this chilling dawn

Had you come to pinch the fawn?

To let it dance

Or to it let cry with cold

Or to let it remember the scold

Of prohibited love!

Drop by drop you drip on the lawn

On which lovers once sat to exchange their hearts

The park is empty today;

You alone enjoy your solitariness

And keep the young lovers crying

Unable to wait your period go

The hearts only say:

“Winter is dull but short

And Spring waits with bundles of flowers.”