Writers-Block

The mind fails to catch

Ideas floating like sperms

Waiting to be hit by conviction;

To gestate and come to life

Myriad images, like

Vibrant butterflies

Tempt; and then run amok,

In the dark recesses of mind

 

Across the hills and rivers,

My thoughts run wild

Then slip through my fingers

Like  bubbles bursting in the blink of an eye

I simply let them sleep ,

Let them take their time,

When they mature into valued perceptions,

Then they’ll be mine.

Narinder Jit Kaur is a retired Associate Professor from Patiala,who taught English Literature for 31 Years in various Government Colleges of Punjab. A writer and a translator, she has five books of translations, from Punjabi to English, to her credit Including Voices In The Back Courtyard(Rupa & Co.) -An Anthology Of Short-Stories By Punjabi Women Writers. She writes articles, poems and short-stories in English, Punjabi and Hindi. You can read more from her on narinderjit.com