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 Poetry”.)
☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 19☆
☆ The Poetry ☆
Poetry should be loved forever,
And to keep loving it,
You have to keep it
In the chambers of your fragile heart.
If you throw it out
And still expect it to love you,
You are in a world of illusion.
Hoping that it will adjust
To its new surroundings
Outside your heart,
Is a misapprehension.
Love is its forte
And it shall keep loving you,
But it shall
Neither knock at your door,
Nor even be visible to your naked eyes.
One day,
When you shall finally understand
How much did the poetry love you,
You will miss its benign presence,
You will yearn for it to come back,
You will crave to hold its hands,
You will long to clasp it in your warm embrace;
But it won’t return.
After all,
Poetry is a butterfly
And its wings are fragile.
© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra
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