Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 19 – The Phenomenon ☆ Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

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 “The Phenomenon ”.)

☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 19☆

☆ The Phenomenon ☆

It was October again,

Time when the clouds

Had been bidding adieu,

Year after year

To the Earth.

“Do you love me?”

The earth, couldn’t resist

Asking the cloud.

Since long,

No words had been spoken

Between them,

But she had always felt

That it was because of love

And the special bondage

That they both shared,

The clouds had been coming

And bathing her with affection.

The cloud coughed,

“What’s love?

I sprinkle raindrops

Since I become overladen-

It’s just a scientific process!”

And he vanished unhesitatingly.

The Earth stared for long

At the retreating cloud,

And despite the wetness spread

By the cloud a few moments ago,

She felt dry and barren.

She knew that

The clouds will come back again next year,

But neither will she long for them,

Nor await their arrival;

Getting soaked in the rains

Will just be another heartless phenomenon!

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