It spills forth in verse
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Waking up from my sleep
Wasn’t sure what had come aboutBut was shocked at the queer sightIn the place of my handsHad sprouted a pair of wingsMy mouth had pointed and curved like a beakWords came out like twittering songsMy long and sturdy legsHad turned into wire like sticksAnd my toes shaped intoSharp pointed clawsA tail had been fitted upon…
Wielding a tool, mighty and spiky
He reigns monarch in Fancy’s domainSketching life in fanciful color and modeWhich with pain and strife fraughtOr bright with gaiety and graceIn finer yarn than the gossamer threadOn the fabric of words in befitting verseHe steals away from the noisy crowdInto the stillness of the cloistered cellTo dwell with Fancy’s mystic charmsWeaving downy dreams at…
Close to our ancestral home
It now stands almost leafless n’ bareWith its face turned to the sun and skyOnce from far, everyone could seeThis lush green Champak treeIt stood in all beauty and graceAnd carpeted the ground in fallen bloomsIts lovely blossoms were so redolentLike tube roses, heady and fragrantIn its dark and leafy gladeHow as children, we sat…
The accused in the court said- ‘My Lord
That I’ll speak the truth,Nothing but the truth,That I have done nothing but the bad’
From the jagged summit of the mount
Now I have to climb down this cliffEach slope n’ ridge with utmost careIt makes me shudder from head to footThat a single negligent or faulty stepCan land me in the base of the abyss belowUnnerving me like sailors in a sinking shipIt is so rugged, perilous and slipperyWith narrow, tapering and razor edgesClimbing up…
As the glowworms in the stygian night
When little birdies cuddle under their mother’s warmthI sense the indulgent grip of SleepWho takes me to his gilded chamber of dreams!