Contemporary Literary Review India | Print ISSN 2250-3366 | Online ISSN 2394-6075 | Impact Factor 8.1458 | Vol. 9, No. 4: CLRI November 2022

Saranya Narayanan

In the fold of my hands

It is in the fold of my hand,

I see the world shrink to dust.

The strains on the cold flesh of my palms

pulverises breaths to fumes,

clouds torn apart to foster rain of insanity.

The seeds that

wrapped up the sunlight,

moulds me into earthen pots carrying

memories dried up in the sun.

The mosit air garnishes my neck,

beading pearls of sweat.

The tales I weave out of lifeless nights

surrenders the land to darkness,

sickening and maddening the souls.

I see the land crumble to ash.

In your eyes

In the blink of your eyes,I see

a part of me manifest and stolen forever.

My heart with its apprehensions

sleeps with a million dreams awake;

the stories your eyes hold for me

consummates the orphaned clouds that

loiter in the sky, heralding

the onset of a spring anew .

In our unison, the withered leaves

usher a new lease of life.

In the clamour of your heart, I wake from

my slumber, envisioning

the fruits of passion which our eyes

behold in communion.

Saranya Narayanan is a Post Graduate holder in English Language and Literature and she is a former teacher at a school in her native town of Trivandrum, Kerala. She is a passionate teacher who loves to teach English language using modernist approaches. She is fond of reading and writing poetry and believes poetry is a companion to a passionate and a desperate soul.

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