LILY SWARN

LILY SWARN

BLOOD STAINS!

Open your heart's arteries

Or keep the doors tightly shut

Keep the chambers squeaky clean

And hang no pictures on its walls

Blood will rush in uninvited

It knows where it must flow

Gushing in fountains of euphoria

Streaming through veins of bliss

It's like love you see

It has a secret route

Tourniquets will not dam it

Plugs will not push it back

It rises like a tidal wave

It drenches you like a tsunami

Blood is crimson when alive

A ruddy russet as you die

Love retains its brilliant hue

For it never ever dies !

Copyright Lily Swarn

20.8.2017

FROZEN PETALS

It coiled under the peepul tree

An anaconda belching silently

Frozen petals of pink cosmos

Euthanised in fossil repose

It was love lying in wait

Not a sound from its tremulous mouth

Not a syllable slipping out of its strained vocal chords

Love stretched languorously

Agile , nimble footed

Ready to pounce

A cat on a hot tin roof

Love poised on dew drenched leaves

Suffused in the midnight moonbeams of his aura

Whispers have a metamorphosis

They scream in slanderous tones

Love prefers the whirlpools in your eyes

Listening to simmering ghazals

Gazing at the winking stars

Let love adorn you in emerald hues

Anoint you with green olive extracts

Crush the ittar from crimson roses

Add saffron to your milky glow

Let love seep in  unabated

Trickling into your aching soul

Copyright Lily Swarn 17.8.2017

ONCE UPON A TIME

She crept down from the terrace

Carefully trying to soften her footfall

Treading like a crow on cow dung

Deadening the sound of anklets

Midnight moonbeams mesmerised

The Chakor called its mate beseechingly

Jasmine creepers crept into unsuspecting hearts

Igniting fires of inebriated aromas

She looked with dark inquisitive eyes

From behind the fluttering blinds

Out at the vast expanse of green

He was hiding in the corn she knew

Her thudding heart beat the keherva

As she ran with a firm doe like stride

He stood up tottering and swaying

And fell like a heap of wet sand

She suppressed a scream while he slept the sleep of death

Copyright 18.8.2017

LILY SWARN

LILY SWARN 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 conferred the title of Global Icon of Peace on her in Nigeria .Lily has been awarded the Virtuoso Award by Philosophique Poetica. A post graduate in English from Panjab university she has taught in the prestigious Sacred Heart College , Dalhousie.A gold medalist  for Best All Around Student from the Government College for Girls Chandigarh, Lily has two University Colours from Panjab University . One for Dramatics as 'Best actress ' and the other for excellence in Histrionics.  She was the editor of the college magazine and also wrote middles for newspapers! She won accolades for recitation of self composed poetry too.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 numerous national and International  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 magazine .Our Poetry Archive , monthly web journal included her work in the contemporary Poets of Asia edition .Her work has  been recognised as explosive, outstanding and powerful by different  poetry groups and they often turn their spotlight on it .A featured poet in Pentasi B Friendship poetry ,she has been invited to attend the International poetry meet  .Her poetry has also found a place in the e zine ,Incredible Women of India and in the Learning and Creativity Magazine .Lily's prose makes an appearance in the Australia based EZine ,The Mind Creative .Lily Swarn's column "History mystery of Food "is published each Wednesday in the international web magazine Different Truths .com. Her series "Cantonment Calling" in the same magazine won her exceptional readership world wide. This year she was awarded a trophy for being a 'Woman of pSubstance '.Her FB page in memory of her late son Gobind Shahbaaz Singh has tremendous following . 'A versatile genius 'is the title she got in her school,Carmel Convent . Lily has been a radio show host in North Carolina USA and  anchored prominent stage shows both  in the civil and army arenas due to her proficiency in English , Urdu ,Hindi and Punjabi .Frequently invited as a  guest for her views on the 24hour multilingual radio broadcaster ,Sher e Punjab  radio aired from Vancouver, Lily was recently interviewed by the Red River Radio "Tales from the pages "show in the  United.States . Married to an army veteran , she lives in Chandigarh,