Category: Poems

The Bead

beads

The string snapped;

Beads scattered

And rolled around.

The released tension,

Unfolded;

A humble string,

Ordinary;

And a single bead,

Unpredictable

That hit the floor

Bounced, and jumped outside….

The street,

Bustling;

The window,

Unsuspecting;

The string,

Resilient.

Shower

Laburnum

Yellow.

Laburnum in blooms;

Bunches of delightful bright.

Yellow.

Leaves turned pale;

Scatters of waning beauty.

Yellow.

Shreds of living and dead shed;

In a soothing summer shower.

*** Published previously in April 2014

Pattern

patterns

Flustered not, she fluttered;

A minute on my watch ticked…

Fight not, flight arrested;

A pattern I traced as my watch ticked…

Tried hard, tired by then,

She stilled and I took over;

The window that lay ajar

Opened to the evening sun…

She fluttered and flustered I stood

A minute on my watch ticked…

She fought, and gained flight;

A pattern I traced as she found her way.

Tried till then, tired not yet,

The words swirl emotions

And minutes on my watch ticked

As patterns I chased fervently

Unknown to me minutes ago;

Life I see differently…