Today the world is a little more my own.
No need to remember the pain
A blue-frocked woman caused, throwing
Words at me like pots and pans, to drain
That honey-coloured day of peace.
'Why don't you join the others, what
A peculiar child you are! '
On the lawn, in clusters, sat my
schoolmates sipping
Sugarcane, they turned and laughed;
Children are funny things, they laugh
In mirth at others' tears, I buried
My face in the sun-warmed hedge
And smelt the flowers and the pain.
The words are muffled now, the laughing
Faces only a blur. The years have
Sped along, stopping briefly
At beloved halts and moving
Sadly on. My mind has found
An adult peace. No need to remember
That picnic day when I lay hidden
By a hedge, watching the steel-white sun
Standing lonely in the sky.
Punishment In Kindergarten
Kamala Das
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Poem topics: child, children, funny, lonely, sky, today, woman, world, hidden, blue, white, steel, honey, face, mind, laugh, drain, pain, peace, remember, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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