To know
How close
I feel ~
Towards
You...??
Every day
You wear
Your glasses
Every day
I wear you
Just the way
You can't do
Without your
Glasses,
I can't do
Without you
'Cause
Just the way
You need
Your glasses
I need you :-)
Sometimes
Sometimes
I feel like
Writing to
You, all
Day, all
Night :-)
As if
Writing
Comes to
Me naturally
All day, all
Night :-)
If
If you
See him
Smiling
For no
Reason
Don't assume
There's no
Reason
The reason
Could be
Love :-)
Mother - Daughter
Daughter is posing
Mother is clicking,
In this age of Selfie
It's all about 'Me' ;-)
(written after seeing my neighbours taking selfies)
Some People
Some people
Are way too
Busy to give you
Time
But when
They are
Free
They want
All your time
Doesn't matter
To them - that
If and when
You need them
They don't have time
That
That
Last
Line
Of his
Poem
Stayed
With me
For a long
Time...
As if
Somebody
Had brought
Back to me
A long-lost
Memory...
After a
Long time
She
She
May be
Feeling
Lonely
Out there
So she's
Sharing
Her blog
Everywhere
(Theme: Filler)
School
Beginning
School
And
Ending
School
The school
Remains the
Same
The influx
And outflux
Goes on
Just like
We do
On
Earth
(in this poem, the earth is perceived as a school which we join when we are born and leave when we die and so the steady flow of births and deaths represents the influx and outflux)
He's
He's died
Peacefully
In his sleep.
At least,
Now he'll
Not be
Plagued
By the
Aches
And
Pains
Of his
Diurnal
Ablutions
That didn't
Let him sleep
(dedicated to aged, disabled or chronically ill people for whom life is so much of a burden that even doing their everyday little chores seems to be so painful. Death releases them from their diurnal struggle)
Pack
Pack a
Punch
In your
Poems
So that
People
Who
Read you
Consider
You to be
The Mary
Kom of
Prolific
Poetry
(addressed to all women poets)
All the above Poems are © Aparna Chatterjee 2015
School image © Getty Images dot Com (Courtesy: Boloji)
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