Girls’ Voices

 
                HOPES AND DREAMS
  
             Staring into the sky
             Peeking through the stars
             Stretching on tiptoe
             Far beyond 
             Into the unknown and unseen
             Wondering
             what might be 
             Up there
             Wishing and hoping
             That 
             If only I could
             Reach out 
             And move the stars around
             By the tips of my fingernails
             Not just for me
             But 
             For all the daughters
             Mine and others'.
 
 ***                                              
 
    ((Nidadavolu Malathi, 
    July 19, 1999)
 

Tags: Poetry, Telugu writers, women writers