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Vinod Shankar Oct 2014
What this body is about,after all?
About these limbs,these eyes,these nostrils,
These ears,these nails and points of hair?

Do we carry all this weight for all that?
No,certainly not.We don't.
We are made of senses but we aren't senses alone.
We are much more,much better.
We are like incomplete poems,like those
Unsaid and unthought of similes and metaphors
Which strike our minds and go unwritten.
(I have written this so called poem just now)
  Oct 2014 Vinod Shankar
LittleFreeBird
A piece of you
Reflecting back
The bitter words in your mouth
Too raw to speak
A poet is
Someone in pain
And someone in love
Someone who looks at the world
Through a kaleidoscope
Who takes a magnifying glass to each
And every
Word you say
And lets them imprint on their heart
A poet is
A star gazer
A dreamer
A chaser of
The improbable
But hopes anyway
A poet is
Tissue paper skin
A heart of glass
And a soul of titanium

A poet is
A sharp tongue
And a gentle kiss
She is a sob
He is a sigh
A poet is
The sun at midnight
Bright and
Burning
Hot
Alive
But cloaked in a darkness
They cannot shake
The brightest day
And the darkest night
A poet is
The human experience
A paradox
An oxymoron
So complicatedly
Simple

A poet is
A lover
Who refuses
To stop wearing their heart on their sleeve
No matter how much it bleeds
But rolls them up
So you can’t see
The blood stains


A poet
Is Poetry

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