2/25/2016 Four poems by Poornima LaxmeshwarFidelity 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 ![]() 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.
Kanchan Bhattacharya
2/25/2016 08:25:53 am
Awesome. Would like to include you in my anthology
Kala Ramesh
2/25/2016 05:20:41 pm
Lovely poems, Poornima. Congratulations!
Divya Gupta
2/26/2016 02:29:52 am
Lovely and meaningful poems... Congrats and all the best for future....
Poornima patil
2/26/2016 06:51:40 am
Beautiful!! Comments are closed.
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