Fiery beams pierce soft skies
seeking to delay the onset of night
On a brilliant bosom, gold glitters
A vile cologne spreads undeterred
as alluring quilts of sleep apparate
trying to nail a roving sprite
caught in an unfinished tug of war
between rogue days that clamour
over nubile nights
Time to transcend the powdered skin
Huddled feathers hush voluble beaks
Chanting crickets culminate in a baying crescendo
Cries and jeers sync into a whimper
Sanity mimics a falling movie curtain
with measured movements of settling dust
Nightmares gallop down the road
lighting latent matches under prayers
Moonflies emerge after the hooves recede
to pop irrational cocoons
filled with the trivia of loveless dreams
to release clipped and glued wings
not to send a love-float to circle the moon
but to suck out the plastic from living follicles.
-Reena Prasad
A poetic melange of swirling mysticism.
Thank you Louis Kasatkin. Your feedback is always encouraging.
I really like the last stanza. On the whole, a truely magical poem.
Thank you Gopal Da!
Destiny Poets’ International Community of Poets ( ICOP ) are pleased to announce that for January 2013 , the following works have been chosen in the categories of Poem of the Month and Highly Commended . January’s Poem of the Month is..” Calcutta Confessions ” – Mukherjee Twish. Highly Commended ( tabulated in alphabetical order) are…*”Astrakhan Collars” – Gina McKnight ; “Awakenings” – Elizabeth Castillo ; “Beautiful Night” – Gopal Lahiri ; ” Could do better” – Steve Keates ; “Far away friend” – Iulia Gherghei ; “From the bedside of the sick” – Sunil Sharma ; “How can I” – Diwakar Pokhriyal ; “Moonflies on my skin” – Reena Prasad ; “Rainbow surfing” – Rahul Aithal ; ” Stand still ” – Sharon Elizabeth Walker ; “This is life” – Nalini Srivastava ; ” Unidentified Voice” – Prakash Dhamala
Thank you very much Louis Kasatkin. A great honour indeed to have my
poem up there among the highly commended ones. Congrats to all the
featured poets .
Lovely piece Reena.
Thank you Rahul Aithal. Congrats 🙂
I readyour poem again, Reena. An amazing work. Congrats.
Thank you Gopal Da. 🙂
Time to transcend the powdered skin
Huddled feathers hush voluble beaks
Chanting crickets culminate in a baying crescendo
Cries and jeers sync into a whimper….
LOVED THE POEM…
Thanks a lot Nalini! 🙂