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Abyss by Neetu Malik

January 26, 2020 by Neetu Malik in category Poet's Day by Neetu Malik tagged as Neetu Malik, Poet Day, secrets, wounds

Abyss

She opens her hands, 
 clenched for years
 in a tight fist 
 like a new-born, 
 
 but these fists hold no secrets 
 of a mother’s womb,
 no innocence, or dreams freshly sown—
 
 instead, their hardened skin bears
 lacerations that come 
 from a hard grip
 on a fugitive soul
 
 sliding mercilessly 
 into the devil's pit
 
 deep, deep
 where she buried 
 old wounds
 
 
 (c) Neetu M.

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Winds of Comfort by Neetu

December 26, 2019 by Neetu Malik in category Poet's Day by Neetu Malik tagged as comfort, poems, poet, soothing

wind whistles
 in the distance
 where desert sands
 meet the sky

 undulating waves of sound
 break the silence
 of remorse—
 self-inflicted wounds
 soothed by softly falling night

 a balm of star-speckled skies
 covers them
 as lulling music hums and whooshes
 almost like an ocean, rhythmic

 cooling blistered souls
 who wander lost
 in the unknown

 © Neetu Malik

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Horizon by Neetu

November 26, 2019 by Neetu Malik in category Poet's Day by Neetu Malik tagged as Hope, Neetu Malik, Poet's Day

Hope, like the horizon
glimmers in the distance

my eyes grow weary
as I watch it burn
then cool in the twilight
each day until
darkness sweeps
over the edges and I can see
no more

only to repeat when I wake
from sleep

once again, clinging to
fine rays as they
emerge in luminous shades
above sleepy slopes
assuring me

there is no end
to Hope.

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Grey Skies by Neetu Malik

October 26, 2019 by Neetu Malik in category Poet's Day by Neetu Malik

Grey Skies

 I should have cut a piece of blue sky
 or maybe two

 one for each pocket 
 the last time it stretched 
 above me
 unblemished and clear,
 but I forgot it wouldn't last--
 no, it never does. 

 At least I have the memory 
 of its cerulean loveliness
 when the days are dark

 faint though it is 
 it still hovers like a lost star
 searching for a place in 
 my universe. 

 ©Neetu Malik

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Yearning by Neetu

September 26, 2019 by Neetu Malik in category Poet's Day by Neetu Malik tagged as Neetu, tears


 Yearning
  
 I glisten in tears 
 like an April dawn,
  
 covered in dew
 like blades of grass,
  
 whispering notes
 like softly falling raindrops,
  
 I call your name 
 like one who is lost –
  
 listen achingly for the sound
 of your answering call.
  
 © Neetu Malik