Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού
Dr. Dipak Giri, M.A. (English), M.A. (Education), B. Ed., PhD (English). Teacher, Author, Editor & Researcher
Dr. Dipak Giri: “Ravished Tree” In memory of Abhaya (Tilottama)
Dr. Dipak Giri is an Indian writer from Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Creative Flight, a literary journal which publishes both academic and creative writings bi-annually. He has twenty books to his credit. As a poet, he has already published few poems on gender and feminism in Creative Flight.
The present poem “Ravished Tree” is an eco-feminist poem. Here the poet has drawn the pathetic picture of a full grown tree turning into “lifeless and shabby” out of a sudden attack of lightening for no fault of her own, though once “a holy and virgin bower” as if a virgin girl in human world is suddenly ravished before she realizes she is reduced to drab and lifeless from her lively and youthful existence.
Could you ever come out of that Incubus visitant, a flash of lightning and that nocturnal intrusion!
ONCE,
all around the year,
your body had always been
a holy and virgin bower,
of many a visitant,
for refuge,
in many a heat,
and of shower.
THEN,
in your mood of joy
and of hope,
all around
your leafy robe,
you seemed
as if always and ever
would be laden
with grace and favour.
NOW,
you no longer been
what you once been
you, lifeless
and shabby,
though once full of charm
and of glory
until you met
that thundering touch
and viciousness,
that rashful action
and immoralness!
