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Aparna Ganguli Dec 2011
A model's life

She struts her way to the ramp
Gait like a cat, to and fro...
The show stopper ready to grace
FEMME FATALE on the go!

In black and diamonds true
Crimson lips, alabaster skin
What if she misses a step?
Life's been good in between...

Oh no! is that dire plot?
Her foot misses the stride
And out slips the fairness!
Wondrous bareness to hide...

Off she flies from the ramp
Diamonds in sprayed mess
Tears like pearls flow free
Oh dear, dear God bless!

Dreams scatter like hay
Stripped and peeled off life
An ailing son to tend - But
Tomorrow's another day!
Aparna Ganguli Dec 2011
The clock strikes two, too whit too hoo
The barn owl cries
My phone is on roo raa raa roo
The wait dies...

Too whit too whoo when would he call?
I wait and wait
Roo ra ra roo, the phone is on
The hour is set.

"Cinderella hour" and he doesn't call
What's wrong, oh my!
I toss and turn, all forlorn
As time slips by...

Then goes the ring, trring trriing triing
I jump to it
He calls and calls while i hold my breath
Tat for ***!

And then i go tee da da do
I do give in
To hear those three letter words
My head's a spin

Love you, love you, I love you
Is all i hear
His sugary voice, with an extra poise
That brings a tear

Is it a dream, is it a song
Is it the rain?
Roo raa raa roo, too whit too whoo
"WAIT" again...
Aparna Ganguli Dec 2011
The Magical Date
Last nite was a celebration!
And before it all begun
He held me by my hand so close
We were off to leprechaun land!

The naughty elf with his impish pranks
His sinful teases and wanton ways
His playful gestures, fractious delights
He rushed me off to his wilful fays

We found ourselves in a Keatsian bower
In 'embalmed darkness', '**** 'white hawthorns'
It was fragrant with the jasmine veils
That covered the roof of rosy thorns

we laughed and sang old happy numbers
we talked our hearts out gleefully
After aeons of blue moon we'd finally met
A magical date it had to be!

And so when i looked up to his eyes
It held mine in a purple gaze
In a trice of a second he was off with me
Speeding through the verduous maze

Help! i cried but held on tight
Our windswept hair, our amorous plight
His fervour, vigor, force and power
Was all i felt that wondrous night

Elf or gnome, genie or sprite
A naughty brownie or the nisse vampire
Bogie, goblin, fairy, nymph
He carried me through the forests dire...

So just wen I can close my eyes
Just when i feel im missing him
He's there as he says hes there with me
Off we go into the woodlands dim

We dance a waltz, a salsa true
A foxtrot, a ballet in embrace tight
In white moonshine, in purple rain
When dewdrops catch the morning light.

And then again with every dawn
The magic wanes, the elf resigns
To mossy groves and sylvan lands
And the elfin grottos of my mind.
Aparna Ganguli Dec 2011
He has some "Cinderella time"

Which I don't like in the least

The clock strikes three

And there is he

Rushing down Elfin street



I wish the 'Cinderella time'

Would never work for me

For I would never like the clock

To strike the hour at three!



I wonder what would happen

If he stayed beyond that time

Let the magic go off

Let him be just mine!

— The End —