Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra
(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is Executive Director (Systems) Mahametro, Pune. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “Autumn and Winter”.)
☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 13☆
☆ Autumn and Winter ☆
The absent autumn
Peeps in for a little while,
Vanishing again.
You are used to its vanishing tricks,
You are also used to its appearing all of a sudden,
And for the first time,
You don’t get swayed by its arrival,
Your emotions don’t start pirouetting,
And poetry doesn’t pour like rains.
You’ve rather started loving
The icy winter.
It does freeze you for a while,
But it’s more realistic
And then, it always lives up to its promises
Of nothingness.
When the autumn bids adieu
After its short trip,
You are rather happy,
Since there is no ripple to disturb you
In the sea of your peace.
© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra
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