VANDANA KUMAR

VANDANA KUMAR

Lyrics And Song

There grows a song

At the tip of my tongue

With a longing

For something

That shouldn’t be

Of letters that by now

Should have swept away

With the leaves of fall

They lay frozen

An entire winter

Hoping your glance

Would thaw each line

Of strange roads

Wind swept hair

The waiting at the bent

Of how banter always lasted

One summer to the next spring

There hang a few things

Lyrics –

Replete with colors

You once robbed

A fine-tuned guitar

And three prizes to give away

Outsider

Have you ever felt?

Strangely distant from yourself

From each and every part

Of your anatomy

You!

The surgeon

Of your own surgery

Spinal anesthesia

And you talk

Clinically

About liver and intestine

Dispassionate about the water in the lungs

Feeling no pain

At what the world injected into you

No remorse

At what you did to the world either

Marauding

Crushing flowers

Or people

Or both

Saying I love you randomly

Sanguine about the ones

We say them to

That they are also observers

Living outside

Of their hearts and lungs

Muted Woman’s Day!!!

The vacuumed silences!

Not from the inky darkness

Not a natural quiet of the hour

It buzzed through the chattering ring

A silence piercing through the din

She spoke to you no more

Her stillness greeted you ‘Good Morning’

Her shadow wished you goodnight

You bludgeoned her to silence

Her conversations suspended in mid-air

Your taunts tamed her

You labelled her ilk

Bereft of a voice

She became the still leaf waiting for a rustle

You never could fathom her silence

And dipped in the unspoken

Of the deafening decibels

A little like the pre-talkies clip by your bedside

Without dubbing or subtitles …..

VANDANA KUMAR

VANDANA KUMAR is a bon vivant who loves travelling, working with young minds and exploring possibilities beyond the ordinary. A middle school French teacher in New Delhi and an active member of various quiz clubs, her passions include playing the piano. She contributes poems regularly to online publications like ‘GloMag’ and Narrow roads. She has also been published in international journals like Toronto based ‘Scarlet Leaf Review’ and Philadelphia based “North of Oxford”. In addition she has been published in poetry websites like UK based ‘Destiny Poets’. One of her poems was shortlisted and published by the “All India Poetry Society” (All India 2017 poetry competition). One of her poems was recently published in the Winter 2020 edition of the Houston, Texas based “Harbinger Asylum”. Poetry for her is her stress buster, her flight of fancy and strangely, what keeps her rooted too.