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!
© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra
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