Wednesday, 15 February 2017

A New Poem

One moment wrapped in time, or was that a night
Your lips wrapped on kisses or was that sunlight? 

Lonesome frangipani lay spent on the ground,
Until a green saree sprinkled glass-bangle sound

And words entangled so with words,
rhyme, rhythm, meaning, and purpose
Tumbled into new depths, novel deaths

Under an imagined tree at night 
Your skin and mine, your touch and mine
Breathed a new life

All that I ever was, 
burned in sheer joy
And from those sacred ashes, 
New lives arose with a cry

Today's smile was 
printed on my breasts 
Here and now; 
and a new poem is born




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