LILY SWARN
I
When the tinkle of your anklets
keep me half awake in anticipation
It is poetry
When the moon slips slyly beneath
the clouds like an elusive pimpernel
It is poetry
When the Chakor pines for it's
beloved
In the wee hours of the night
It is poetry
When the first bud of motia
perfumes my garden in summer
It is poetry
When the clouds gather for a solemn
conference in monsoons
It is poetry
When you look up from deep love
brimming eyes
It is poetry
When the petrichor suffuses the mud
homes of farmers
It is poetry
When your hand comes over my head
invisibly
It is poetry
When the pansies smile impishly
with their cat faces
It is poetry
When your ageing dad beckons you
home across the oceans due to random racial attacks
It is poetry
When the pebble you threw with wild
force causes a whirlpool of ripples
It is poetry
When you remember your mother's
salt and carrom seed paranthas
It is poetry
When the borders open for friendly
visits
It is poetry
When I declare your love to the
world
It will be poetry
Happy International poetry day !
It is poetry
Copyright Lily Swarn 20.3.2017
THE GHOST
I knew you had come that day
The breeze was heavy with your
breath
The moon slipped away furtively
Behind the thick pall of gloom
That hovered over my grey dome
The Chakor whelped in pain
Across the navy blue mountains
A lost sheep bleated in fear
While the owl looked on in wondrous
awe
The cypress swayed in drunken
stupor
Casting ominous shadows over my
reclining form
I knew you had come that day
Copyright Lily Swarn27.32017
RHYME TIME !
It's not often that I want to rhyme
I like being a free bird in any
clime
Guttural sounds of choking fears
Rolling along with drenching tears
Blabbering out my spent heart
On cul de sacs bitter and tart
Smiling through the hazy screen
When the world is rather mean
Humming melodies of happy days
Chirping twittering with blue jays
Copyright
LILY SWARN
28.3.2017
LILY SWARN recently won the Reuel
International Prize for Poetry 2016 and was recognised by the World Union Of
Poets as Global Poet Of Peace and
Universal Love.World institute of peace are conferring Global Icon of Peace to
her in Nigeria .Lily has been awarded the Virtuoso Award by Philosophique poetica She is a post graduate in English from
Punjab university and has taught degree classes. A gold medalist and a
university colour holder for dramatics and histrionics, she was the editor of
the college magazine and also wrote middles for newspapers! Poetry as passion
blossomed after her young son's sudden demise in 2013. She writes with a poignant touch in English,
Hindi and Urdu .Her weekly columns Cantonment Calling and History Mystery of Food are highly popular .Lily's poems can
be read in many anthologies and
have recently been translated into Italian too. .She is widely read in
the internationally famous Atunispoetry.com ,Poem Kubili and The garden of
poetry and prose .Her work has been
recognised as explosive, outstanding and powerful by different poetry groups and they often turn their
spotlight on it . Her Facebook profile has many followers..Married to an army
veteran she lives in Chandigarh , India .
Books -
1.Contemporary major women poets of India
2.Recently published book
The Virtual Reality
3.Poem in
Colours Of Refuge
the international book whose proceeds go to refugees
4.Bouquet of verse
Love poems
5.love poems
6.Roses and Rhymes
7..Revista Letrare ATUNIS
Poems translated into Italian
8.Regular column for web magazine
Different Truths read all over the world
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