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If millions of angels can dance
on the head of a pin
---
How many devils are impaled
on its tip??
 Jul 2020 Shiv Pratap Pal
Aparna
and I was sinking
into the fathomless dark gyres
of his coal-black eyes
those gorgonising eyes,
so mysterious...


For BLT's word of the day challenge:
gyre
I will come back in this yard
in the evening
for your heart touching smile
And I will come to the river
alone in the afternoon
to enjoy your walking on water.

I'll wake up early in the morning
to listen to your song
and the smile on your lovely face
will break my pride.
By gazing into your magical eyes
I will draw my dreams
with you forever!

When the noontide is busy
I will miss you, dear
and I'll be relaxed in the garden
with your memories,
I will smile in your happiness
and love you always
if I'm afraid of my future!

When the day is done
and sunlight will be gone
Then my thirsty eyes
will be cool with your beauty
and I will go back to my way again,
I will be back, oh my dear!
BE
She,
my cutter,
my body, her cutting board

sliced by tongue and fingernail,
any handy human implement,
she sculpts me to
her eye's reconfiguring delight

she,
grabs my wrist,
and my face
in her hands grasp-embraced

unblemished once,
now becomes all scarred tissued,
no guise, no lies, no bearded mask,
no disguise - all forsaken

hidden hardened skin,
speckled red/white translucent,
she kisses with adoration her
heart designed
objet d'art

no better blade than she,
with every cut,
transformed, she becomes
my devotee,
I, her escapee,
I am her, she is me,
inseparable, my every command,
she obeys

for our love
cuts both ways
When I ask you if you love me
You say “I do”!
When I ask you if you think I’m pretty
You say “I do”!
When I ask if you think Im a hard worker
You say “I do”!

Then I sometimes wonder why you put up with all my complaints and questions about life and do you really need to hear it over and over and over again,
I remember  25 years ago you said ....,

    “I do”!
Thank you for listening to all my needs for reassurance and hope
Mr Timetable
Exiled to dusk,
Fractions of the sun
Begin to lift away,
In concealment
We shudder,
Casting our reels
Into a pond of uncertainty,
Clock hands bend
With advancing shadow,
And speak of time
Only in past tense.

I so want everything
I ever felt for you
Preserved for posterity,
Even should forever
Be far less than
We imagined.
 Jul 2020 Shiv Pratap Pal
Nigdaw
she arranged the words
like dying flowers in a vase
what once were beautiful blooms
full of meaning
a representation of their passion
had become just the same old letters
there to approximate
an emotion
putting the less shabby
to the front
hoping to gently communicate
that the whole ****** thing
was doomed to dust
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