Gossamer Yarn

Have you been to that tiny wool shop?

Pink, purple and red–

Clashing colours lie side by side

in perfect inanimate harmony.

Have you felt the warmth

of the old lady knitting at the back of the shop?

She orders around a younger man:

"That shade of blue, with glitter on it, 

not the blue with black in it!"

Have you been to that inconspicuous shop

in the middle of two big stores?

It has no name nor perfumed air within;

Only mounds of gossamer threads—

another romanticized pack of commercial ware

©Geetakshi Arora

Oct 28,2013

Goodbyes

The last rays of the setting sun

seem to whisper a final goodbye

as it sinks into clouds of orange and pink,

illuminated by its own moody light;

A single moth welcomes a gloomy dusk,

humming around a pair of bloodshot eyes:

another lonely night must be faced

with candles and dying fireflies;

It is a new moon night,

made brighter artificially,

It is a night filled with wailing

and weeping in odd corners 

of bright homes, decorated with light.

In a small room of a corner house,

a candle lies unlit,

a box of half-filled matches lies near it,

a hand wanders, lights a match and shakes it off,

shocked by the noise outside;

Used up matches paper the room

as prolonged crackles fade away

to welcome a quiet, hazy day

with its watery, pale winter sunlight

© Geetakshi Arora

October 29, 2013

Suspended

In some forgotten past of glittering life,

a dull throb awakens;

nebulous, tentative:

tired.

It gazes with starry eyes

into darkness;

Burns itself

in attempting to cajole

an imagined abyss;

Daring it to transform

into a pink and orange dawn,

with unassuming humility,

it throbs onwards to unsung glory,

leaving a name that illuminates

with a single drop of dew

that fades into silence without an encore.

© Geetakshi Arora

October 23, 2013

White Echoes

Happily unbidden the trees remain silent—

A solemn sadness pervades,

The gentle breeze caresses half-frozen water

And stirs it into a million dancing droplets;

A face fades,

A memory corrodes,

Rusty hands try to shake:

It is cold.

With a shiver, the trees wake—

The gentle rhapsody of an ordinary night,

Like everything else,

 this too shall fade;

That hazy figure in the half frozen lake,

Disappears into the ice,

Forever erased.

Fairytales seduce.

Once more,

Leaves fall,

With a fearful grace:

A recycled eternity

© Geetakshi Arora

October 8, 2013

The Unveiling

Ice melts in a clear green lake

Drop by each painful drop;

Slowly, moments take away,

The sharp edge of that faithless injury,

And that tormenting moonlit gaze;

A burning fever wracked the full moon night,

A heavy mist hid the wasps from view,

Soft, gossamer webs were weaved that night:

A night to remember,

a night dreamt by few;

Someone betrayed cried out for something easily lost,

A smile tugged on pale loveless lips,

As night gave way to a colourless dawn

The mist gradually melting

Into dew drops- unrelentingly real

© Geetakshi Arora

   September 9, 2013

Silver Mud

Silver Mud

Sleek silver smiles scream

At the end of dusty street corners;

A naked girl shields her eyes

Against the smug, yellow dust–

Impartial at first,

It seems to target her;

And settles comfortably,

Wherever it can:

Her eyes, her hair, her nails;

Her feet, her hands, her mouth,

Till she is suffused,

Till she feels no more

Than gravel around her, on her;

In her.

Dusty hands on

tear-streaked dusty cheeks

Create more of the same

The faintest blink of kohl-lined eyes:

The betrayers of beautiful silver smiles.

© Geetakshi Arora,

August 27, 2013

Lost Tides

Scared sounds bounce off
deaf years,
As dead desire rises again,
to engulf in smoke,
Long forgotten suffocating fears
Of whispered screams perhaps,
And a few trivial smothered dreams;
'Tis nothing, to anyone but a delirious sleep
A compulsive dreamer, a destitute one at that;
There is a poet who lies by a dirty river,
Singing broken songs for each drop that flows past,
Awash with the crimson of strangled love

Geetakshi Arora
August 24, 2013