Join the Neopoet online poetry workshop and community to improve as a writer, meet fellow poets, and showcase your work. Sign up, submit your poetry, and get started.

Under a banyan tree

Under a Banyan tree

 

In a loud voice

she is shedding the tears of guilt

she is weeping before the crowd

 

The Chairman declared his verdict

That she is the convict

and has to pay fine for her guilt

against her chastity

 

None has taken her side:

who can deliver her justice,

to feed her two-month old hungry child

she bartered her chastity

 

Fifty rupees fine

and barred from the chaste society

Penniless she cried,

none to share her sorrow

 

The gracious chairman who fined her,

paid her fine and gave the warning

not to stoop so low

 

With loud claps for him

the gathering melted,

the helping hands of the chairman

pulled her crumpled hips

to his bed room to thrust on her the crime again!!



— SAKTHEEE2007, Nov 30, 2009

About This Poem

About the Author

More from this author

Critiques

weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 5 months ago

The evil committed against women...

oh, I really don't know what to say. Perhaps that is part of why this has has not yet received any comments. Also I don't understand Chairman in this context. What is a chairman's social/legal/religious role? Good to see you again my friend. I've been away for a while and it's great to be back. Great to see you prolifically writing your own special brand of unabashed honesty and observation. Cheers, Jess, reprehensibly irrepressible
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 5 months ago

Jeeze Sak…. must be

Jeeze Sak.... must be something about the *weaker sex* that makes some men weak in the brains, heartless, without soul. ~A Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.