Mother-in-law

Mother-in-law

A Poem by Onku Ghosh
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Who ever becomes a mother-in-law, behaves like a mother-in-law.......forgetting her own humiliation in the past.

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Starry-eyed, as a demure bride,
Resplendent in jewels,
Into his house you came-
Hoping his mother would be yours.

Stripped off your jewels,
Your honour,not spared
To an article you were reduced.
Shattered o smithereens-
Lay all your dreams.

Years have gone by-
A daughter (in-law)awaits acceptance.
Beseeching  a tender word,
A gesture of love.

You curse her,
In unthinkable ways humiliate her.
Hanker after her father's wealth .
Forgetting those yesteryears ?
Or, is it vengeance mother-in-law?????

© 2013 Onku Ghosh


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Great work. Love your meaningful rhymes that indicates torture of women by her own kind.

Posted 4 Years Ago


This is so true. Revenge on the spare you got? like "Aha! now this is my chance!"
Very well written. People shouldn't make others feel, the way themselves don't wish to.

Posted 8 Years Ago


"Is it Vengeance mother-in-law?"
these lines are so true...many a times the mother in law is actually taking vengeance...
how more beautiful would the world have been if people could forget their pains.

Posted 9 Years Ago


The poem speaks of very delicate emotion and in many households such is the relationship between a MIL and DIL.
But if both the persons respect and care for each other all will be well, though some people refuse to change.


Posted 10 Years Ago


You have seriously written about my mother in law and written so well i must add.This is the relity for so many women.Thank you for penning and sharing:)

Posted 10 Years Ago


Understand this one.. I had (have) the mother in law from hell.. Good to say here what you cannot say there.. Keep penning .. shallimarRose

Posted 11 Years Ago


wow, very strong message here...what goes around comes around..

and often we forget the tortures and humiliation we have been put through...

yet we do it to others...and also i see love trying to break through here, when wealth overrides it.

nicely done.

Posted 11 Years Ago


I have heard about tenuous mother in law/daughter in law relationships. I cannot imagine. My own MIL and I get along so well. When it goes bad, the whole family suffers. Angi~

Posted 11 Years Ago


A quality poem with a very relevant and pertinent message, it's a reality for many ! Prejudice is not a healthy attribute !

Posted 11 Years Ago


Love the story you tell here, of the daughter in law who just doesn't get accepted by her mother in law.
Heartfelt and well put :)

Posted 11 Years Ago



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Added on August 13, 2013
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Onku Ghosh
Onku Ghosh

Kolkata, West Bengal, India



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I am a homemaker interested in writing poems, painting, coking, gardening, travelling and surfing the internet more..

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