PARAMITA MUKHERJEE MULLICK

PARAMITA MUKHERJEE MULLICK

Overcoming All By Love

The dark clouds of disease and dread are floating around.

The streets are silent, there is no sound.

In fear and uncertainty, we abound.

A cure to stop COVID 19 is yet to be found.

But a mother anoints balm on this fear.

She cooks delicious food and gives comfort to ones her dear.

A father works the whole day long.

He makes sure there is food on the table to ensure the children’s song.

A doctor gives service night and day.

All health workers working away.

The cleaners and sweepers keeping clean the vicinity.

The essential workpeople keeping power and water in the city.

Social distancing is the norm.

Digital signature has replaced physical signature on the form.

Televisions flashing demographical news of the spread.

Sanitation and hygiene to defeat the disease’s dread.

With love and empathy, we will survive.

With strength of mind, in despair we will not dive.

Uncertainties will vanish one day.

We will overcome COVID 19 in every way.

Who Can Defeat Us?

From prehistoric times there have been epidemics and pandemics.

But the human race has sprung back again and again.

Evidence of diseases wiping away great number of people are there.

But still the human race has survived and gone forward to dare.

Whether the Athenian or the Antonine Plague.

The Cyprian Plague or the Plague of Justinian.

Black Death gripping Europe by its throat,

Or the Plague of Marseille which was brought by a boat.

Defeat, defeat that’s what we did.

That’s what we will do again.

We will go forward and the disease fight.

We will stop COVID 19 with all our might.

Brains And Emotions Will Fight The War

A brain which is highly developed.

Analysing and understanding experiences of all days.

Taking needed actions to solve problems always.

That’s where humans are way ahead.

So, what can a tiny creature without a true cell do?

Spread it may with all its might.

We have intelligence with it to fight.

So, we will surely win some day.

Emotions not one but twenty- seven in count.

To overcome adverse situations in every way.

To brighten up each and every day.

These emotions will help defeat the pandemic.

The tiny creature unable to divide outside a living being.

Spreading around like wildfire.

Don’t you scare us, don’t you dare.

We will fight and win the war against COVID 19.

PARAMITA MUKHERJEE MULLICK

Dr. PARAMITA MUKHERJEE MULLICK, a national scholar, a scientist with a Ph.D. in Genetic Toxicology turned into a poet for the sheer love of poetry. She has published five books and two more are to be published soon. She is an organiser, editor and translator as well. She had been the Executive Editor and the Executive Director of Kafla Intercontinental, an international journal and its International Writers’ Festival respectively. Some of her poems have been translated into 30 languages including Bulgarian, Filipino, Italian, Spanish, Uzbek and Indonesian. She is the Founder President of Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library (IPPL) Mumbai Chapter where she promotes fusion of poetry with other performing arts. She is a peace advocate and had coordinated the World Festival of Poetry in Mumbai in 2019 when 160 countries read peace poetry together. In January this year she curated the Multilingual Peace Poetry Marathon where 50 poets read their peace poems. Her poems have been published in more than 250 national and international journals. For her poetry Paramita has won numerous awards like the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore award, Poetess of Elegance 2019, Sahitya Shree, Sahityan Samman, Sahitya Bhushan, Master of Creative Genius and the Gold Rose from Argentina for promoting literature and culture. She lives in Mumbai, India with her husband and daughter.