Author: Anushka Mishra

  • For the mornings of life

    The yellow beam of winter noon
    stealing glances
    through agape blinds,
    still at bay, the pallid moon.
    brushing every blemish and scar,
    the cursive freckles of your arm,
    the tiny crescent of your palm.
    the silk of your hemline
    stroked in gentle tones,
    joys inclined.
    only a brief break
    from supple spell;
    letting you lean
    back to loving lull.

    Outside at the juncture
    of crimson and grey;
    the last of fear abandoning
    like golden star,
    drowning into soft sapphire
    of heavens afar.
    deadlocked between
    life and demise;
    every breath and cry,
    gasping in cacophony
    of tender melody.

    Bones that howled in
    silent screams of woes;
    heart chafed with crawling
    anger, relief slipped
    in cusp of sorrows.
    now all tossed into obsidian snow.
    giving way to
    auburn tints of light;
    life wailing with
    olive green of delight;
    springing up into
    caress of cold nights.

    All for you to shine.
    so shine till even sun sighs
    and swerves away
    into heaving sky.
    long rested underneath
    the lonely skin,
    now it’s time
    to unleash the flames
    of daisy lights within.

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