SAMANTHA R. S.

SPRING/SUMMER 2021 ISSUE #02 POET

SAMANTHA R. S. is an educator and poet born and raised in the twin isle republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Growing up in an Indo-Trinidadian home with a Muslim mother meant that poets like Rumi, Amir Khusro, and Muzaffar Warsi shaped her ear and love for words. She used poetry as a creative outlet for dealing with the bundle of emotions that come with changing relationships and the human condition. In August 2020, her first book, Running with Daffodils, was published.

THREE POEMS

EBB

The ocean has 

taught me many things, 

like, 

you can exhaust your lungs 

to brew a storm that brings 

the tide to your thirsty shores, 

and keeps him there against 

his will, and, when you 

finally rest, he will ebb away, 

leaving you resenting 

the very breath that 

carries you.

FULL

The sea 

must first 

be full, 

herself, 

before feeding 

the mouths 

of rivers. 

WOMAN

Today, 

the sea is woman— 

the way she 

composes herself, 

like she hadn’t been 

disturbed by the storm 

the night before.