Four poems by Poornima Laxmeshwar

Fidelity

By Poornima Laxmeshwar

Love-sucked
The mind a flickering game
With sub-set and bracket of hidden words
Splurging from the red roots
Of rotten lies
Fidelity is a bastard 
An altercation of the non-existent
The concealed line between the flesh
And the bond
Hematic
Illegitimate

Fidelity --
Fantasy of the invertebrate
Unconditional convention
Threnody of the brothel
Split in ticking minutes
Compelled -
Isms of the expected
The unconquered reality
And the whole of it.





You always return to me

I was 
Scratching it hard
The wound 
Didn’t seem to disappear
I knew 
It was a mere dream
Somewhere 
I could listen to the words
Dilly dilly
There was nothing 
Healing about the music
Just a trapped moment
That arrived without any premonition

So I rubbed it even more
When the blood oozed
To conquer the room of solitude
The bits of flesh peeping out
Reflected your eyes
The same still eyes
And I realized that it was your love
Staying with me forever
As a vexatious scar




What is peace?

Peace is a paradox
An oscillating myth
Wrapped in the appeal of uncertainties
Lying in between
The tick and the tock

Peace is what I see of myself
In the mirror
The faint line that distinguishes
The stranger from true being

Peace is war
Fought in the sky you breathe
And the earth you seek
The sea within you haunts
With waves that know no silence

Peace is prose
With symmetrical lines
Flowing like a lyrical river
Crystallizing — winter solstice

Peace is a conversation
A collage of myriad lies
Uninteresting psalms
A pattern of unknown rhymes




Subject: Heart

The humdrum 
Inside the crimson quagmire
Caged between the bones of constants
Architecture of the under-privileged
Where every nerve carries
The breath of life:
Perpetual

When the blood rushes
As a gushing river
You choose to play your heart
The permutations of the complexities
The choice between the indefinite

Between you and us
It’s always I who wins



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 About the author: Poornima Laxmeshwar has authored a small poetry collection named Anything But Poetry published by Writers Workshop, Kolkata. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines such as Vayavya, The Aerogram, Northeast Review, Kitaab, Brown Critique, The Stockholm review to name a few. Her haiku has appeared in several magazines. She resides in Bangalore and works as content writer for a living.

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