
By Soma Debray
Happy memories of girlhood return
With the giggling youngsters
All decked in their best
Furtive glances at may or may-not-be friends
As they chatter along.
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Hair bejewelled like the night-sky
Danglers and bracelets
No signs of fear
Like the eagle flying high
They spread their wings.
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Only man can defy and defeat
Only man can rise
Like the Phoenix
All aglow
Piercing the Universe
With its shrill cry
I live and will live.
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Leatherback turtles are back
The neel gai roam the streets
The cheel shrieks overhead
As I gaze at the green parrots…
My girlhood returns.
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Soma Debray has been a student and teacher of English literature for this half of her life. When in her twenties, she was a proud firebrand feminist, but with maturity settling in, she has opted out of –isms; finding fulfilment in womanhood, enjoying all roles carved by nature with freedom of varied explorations. She has faith in self and is a warrior for women’s cause. Women are power; power latent that need be made patent.
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