NEETU VAID SHARMA

NEETU VAID SHARMA

Less Buttery More Flying

Joyous Butterfly never rested

Endless ideas inside her always nested

Her natural self was sophisticated

Harsh winds and rough crickets, often she hated

Spontaneous fondness for a rose

Rejecting the whole garden she chose

Times travelled seasons got changed

Her fondness escalated and high-ranged

Suddenly an envious autumn came

Butterfly busy in routine chores, but at heart all same

Collecting nectar for all unfavourable days

Toiling under rain shower and humid rays

Never dreamt about deadly moment to take birth

Out of blue moon sudden sting will kill all merry& mirth

Day of dazzling spring it long waited

Despondency’ll overcast, never it opated

Favourite flower shedding all care

Sprinkled venomous verbose filled with snare

Bewildered Butterfly went benumbed

All pensive and poised never hummed

For days since then it remained lost

Too much fondness too fierce did cost

Many wishes it deliberately killed

Sea of sensitive secret-store just over-spilled

Flightless it flew to find fondness all shaken

Too tender tree of tokens appeared away and taken

Butterfly seldom so silent and serene

Was made to think so meagre and mean

Wolfish syringes of world pricks at private pores

Misunderstanding breeds where love lessens and less soars

Countless butterflies die while roses sleep

No-one stops, stirs and stays….life is layerlessly deep!

Be You

Stop ‘doing and dying’ for others.

Start loving yourself. Love ignites.

Start pampering yourself. Pampering perks.

Start polishing yourself. Polishing grooms.

Start preserving yourself. Preserving proves /heals / helps.

Start freeing yourself. Freedom liberates.

Start knowing yourself. Knowing enriches.

Start unhooking yourself. Unhooking hooks.

Start learning yourself. Learning enhances.

Start being yourself. Being you behoves.

Start winning yourself. Winning warms.

My Less Is More

For just one dear like, she rejected a foreign hike

For others sake, she put life on stake

Burnt midnight oil, put life’s pan from sim to mode full boil

For others to have peace, she cut self into piece

For others to grow, she let own self go

After others dosed off to sleep

She found spaced moments to weep

For years others used to rule

And the very wise proved fool

Even the self-fooling is not spared

Beauty mercilessly thread-bared

Then inner dignity wakes up

Too much noises stark and shake up

Nature thunders and roars

She leaves behind vultures and boars

For others don’t forget self

That is the unmatchable power and pelf

Glow, groom and glide

Undo ugly and unkind to the extreme corner side

Garnish, cherish and relish all is there

In the unexpected world, be ‘the most fair’

Forgive the spoilers, embrace the enchanters so rare

Stay near the positive, the passionate, and the parasols- who do care

NEETU VAID SHARMA

NEETU VAID SHARMA is a contemporary love poet. She is a published author & poet. She is Assistant Professor, foreign language (French) instructor and web columnist and award-winning research scholar. She has seven books of poems, short-stories and quotes to her credit.