SweetPea Book of Poetry Vol. 2

Jul 2020

Sarita Aditya Verma

Madhumalti

Clusters of madhumalti
Bloom through the dark of the night
Fragrance of the flowers
Leads to a bright new day

Madhumalti(Combretum indicum, is the scientific name of the plant, also known as Rangoon creeper / Chinese honeysuckle)

#rangoon #creeper #madhumalti

Jun 2020

r

****’t dog

I saw the sun set
between my toes
and the moon rise
with just one eye
while my mutt Daisy
looked at me sideways
and sighed like maybe
she thinks I’m lazy
and I thought, ****’t
it’s a shame when a man’s
dog makes him feel bad.

Jun 2020

Melissa S

View of the World

This thing called life is a series of experience
that colors our lenses on how we view the world

The unique shades we look through shapes our
perspective and makes our beliefs unfurled

Though we cannot look with other eyes
we can still try and see and appreciate their view

Tolerance and understanding will go a long way in
making the changes for this to come true

We have no way of knowing what others have experienced
in their past and with their own journey's of life

But we can make a promise to do better with how we
view these lenses in this time of strife

Jun 2020

r

The dogwood’s bark

I find it odd
that my old dog
growwwls
and lifts her ears
when she hears
a pine cone fall
somewhere out there
on my neighbor’s
forty acres
but pays no mind
to the dogwood’s
bark in the quiet
of the night
out in my front yard.

Daisy is a strange old hound.

Jun 2020

Sarita Aditya Verma

Onion’s heart

Sliced the onion

A pink heart popped out the core

All tears, my eyes sore

While slicing an onion

#onion #heart