Layers of flickering lights
A poetry collection by Authorspress India, written by Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra
Poetry collection of 101 wonderful poems which try to describe the voyage to the ultimate equilibrium between the mind and heart through poetry.
Excerpts from the book –Layers of flickering lights
THE WIND AND THE LEAF
Puff! Puff! Puff!
Blew the wind.
It was not only
harsh,
but ruthless too…
destroying everything
that came its way.
A little leaf
had just sprouted
and it was also
full of hope…
it made everything optimistic
that came its way.
The vindictive wind
learnt about
the buoyant leaf
and began
gusting and raging
around it,
surrounding it with
fury and frenzy.
It intimidated it,
It unsettled it,
It threatened it.
And yet,
the leaf
kept smiling,
undeterred.
Seeing the audacity
of the leaf,
the wind
finally blustered
so raucously
that the leaf
could no longer survive
and it gave up,
ah! so bravely.
Optimism and hope
does lose at times,
but then the fact
that it
persisted and flourished
brings a smile
on the lips
of all positive seekers.
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