New Year ...

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Last year

I wished for

frosted nails,

a silver dawn,

fiery red stilettos,

a slim chiselled body,

white flowers, and dreams

 drenched in the October rain.

I stacked them neatly in between

the layers of vibrant rainbow resolutions.

Now

those resolutions have turned gray,

flowers have become rotten

and I am just the same

with no slim body,

no frosted nails,

not even shoes,

not a dream,

nor a dawn,

but

Just this indigo blue butterfly

Painted on my shoulder,

a shade deeper than the ocean,

fluttering and flapping,

gazing at the deep blue sky,

goading me to start

all over again.

wishing all of you a happy new year, season's greetings with lots of love ...

linked to
 http://www.dversepoets.com/
http://liv2write2day.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/write2day-presents-versus-presence/
http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/
http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/
http://gooseberrygoespoetic.blogspot.com/2012/01/poetry-picnic-week-20-fairytales-my.html
http://promisingpoetsparkinglot.blogspot.com/2011/12/agreement-for-thursday-poets-rally-week_28.html
       

Frogs ...

written for 'imaginary garden and real toads' http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/

living life ...

Sit gingerly

with one foot placed firmly

over the base of the blade.

Hold the fish and scrape it out

De scaling it

swinging it deftly right and left.

Or

press the chicken down with one hand,

hold the sickle shaped knife in another

in an artistic angle, and

bring it down ingeniously to make a slit

almost in a dance like perfection.

They don’t retaliate

Or perhaps they can’t;

tolerance is a very holy concept.

Feel the perfect line and

end their head from the body.

Struggling for breath

spitting black blood

those staring eyes and gaped open mouth

casually lain beside.

Bring out all those internal bloody chaos

through that dark hole.

Now with lot of love

and patience,

with fingers soft and skilled,

clean them 

 cut them

into careful sized pieces,

so that no bones or thorns

bother you later.

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a message for the woman ...

illustration by Nilanjana Basu - borrowed from 'parabas' site

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thank you poetry palace.