The answer is blowing in the wind:
Your promise to
paint the miserable night phase with a
jovial light phase in your
stump speech took all of us on a flight
and then we all in delight
cast our votes for you
We all are now fumbling in a squint and you
claim publicly that you shined our lives with lights.
We are all now sweating
Our mouths – now barren lands are
exhausted by the
constant begs for water.
Then your beseeching voice again reached out
to all of us for casting our votes for you
on the pretext of bringing back the oasis into our deserted lives.
How many times will we all get a passionless scorching sun in
return for our hope of getting our scintillating sun?
The answer is blowing in the wind.
©Spriha Kant
Jul 17, 2023
Jul 17, 2023 at 5:38 AM UTC
Blowing leaves around my ankles
Burning colour in the trees
You are my autumn
Long light crossed with branches
Lights your limbs
A pace behind
Your mellow loftiness
Haunts my walks
At the nearing end of day
I am full of woodsmoke fear
Changing seasons, churning motes
Unknown as the dread-dark conker
Cracking underfoot
You are happiness
Gone , now
An empty bench
Gold and orange
A pace behind
Wearing that look from the station
Pity-I mistook for regret
7.11.21
Nov 10, 2021
Nov 10, 2021 at 4:23 AM UTC
The melody was cryptic
A subliminal array
Of soft and easy listening
To cover the decay
A rotting inner core
On musical display
Thirsting, wanting more
The images portrayed
The leather and the boots
The uneven score
That keeps them in their seats
And coming back for more
Nov 9, 2021
Nov 9, 2021 at 10:40 PM UTC
See you everyday
haven't seen myself (in quite a spell)
my brain is
an abandoned building, a dry well
I traced your phone call
to some viral spiral
I'm connected to you
in a spider-like way
--webs, phobias and decay
the essence of life is
reproduction and mortality
see you everyday
in shivering downloaded depravity
your starry smiles
your synthetic ciphers
and I'm all alone again
this body is a safe house
this fear, a panic room
but the enemy within
is always right under my skin
Nov 9, 2021
Nov 9, 2021 at 10:25 PM UTC
sometimes
i want to implode
and swallow the things i said
turn back time
crawl into the womb
and never come out again
Aug 13, 2021
Aug 13, 2021 at 1:21 AM UTC
the concerto of the lake
that the falls and rapids make
the music of the sky
as the swifts and swallows fly
the melody of the fish
as their rainbow tails swish
are heard by pure of heart,
before it's torn apart
the callow, guileless, young,
they hear the rainbow sung
they hear the ballad o' sweet love
before the eagle eats the dove
Aug 13, 2021
Aug 13, 2021 at 1:00 AM UTC
A shaft from the golden sun,
reclined peacefully in my lap.
The amber gleam reflected back,
and gently baked the solemn land.
An ardent whisper furnished the woods
with a viridescent scent that woke up the woods.
Silver songs of sleek streams,
chased the lullabies away;
gently.
Ancient tress cuddled the wind,
their leaves clapped in sheer bliss
The broken winged white eyed bulbul,
warbled hymns to lift the curse.
Scarlet tainted vintage letters resting in the rustic mailbox,
await your tender touch; while they chant for a past long gone.
But lily livered clouds,
they have turned your courage into a yellow illusion.
So now defy the toxic words and the errors you made,
A different person inside your skin, long ago, burned our hearts on the hateful flames.
Aug 6, 2021
Aug 6, 2021 at 11:15 PM UTC
