#slf_fortnightly_poetry_contest 02
DEAD MOON…
Sullen Moon
Tonight life is rippling here with full moon
Nearby forest gets flooded with melted silver
Cool zephyr blows as if patting over their bodies
Filled in mirth and merriment sprinkled as boon.
No mark of pains or sorrows nor of melancholy
Nocturnal beauties reign supreme depicting
A vibrant portrait of the near about landscape
Variegated chiaroscuro with an air of no folly.
Happy couples mustered and romantic lovers
Chanted and jigged as if fairies gleefully hover.
The sea beach swirls into jollity searching other,
Yet the moon stares at those poor creatures,
Foolish enough to care a little to that dying child
Recklessly sucking the nipples of her mother,
A skeleton getting starved for some weeks
Not a drop of milk could produce her dry bosom
She could hardly keep in mind when she got a
Full belly meal. Her sunken eyes opened weak.
How long before she got a saari? She nodded.
The bright moon appeared a fossil gloomy, DEAD.
Narayan Maikap India
————————30/01/2021
