NEHA BHANDARKAR

 

Dream

A fairy queen came in my dream when I was a child

Do you like flowers? She asked me

I answered, I love flowers

They are Rose Jasmine Magnolia Chrysanthemum

I reasoned swiftly

Why? She asked.

Flowers are too ravishing and gorgeous so child-like and innocent

So I love them

Listening to child suiting answer

The fairy queen smiled and went away.

Meanwhile a big span of time passed by

I got married

Obviously I attained my youngness

The same fairy queen 

Came in my dream, while I was young

Do you like flowers? 

She questioned me.

I love them, I said

The same question 

Which flowers you like?

Rose Jasmine Magnolia

Chrysanthemum...

Why? ...Her question. 

I answered the reason

Flowers' attractiveness infatuates mind and

their fragrance intensifies young heart

The young feelings know no bounds

Decorating house, strolling in garden

decking hair-set and while placing near bed

Flowers make life so worth living

that's why, I love flowers.

Listening to feminine and youth accessible answer

The fairy queen pleased and went away

Now it was high time 

since I became a mother

I became an adult

The fairy queen again appeared 

In my dream, when I was aged

Why do you now like flowers?

She asked.

O dear, why don't you just understand? I said.

Flowers are just meant 

To devote at the divine feet 

and to offer the God

So I like them, I reasoned.

Oh dear, how octenyl your preferences change.

She asked

Why did you reason differently 

in childhood, youth and in old age?

I answered

Dear 

For me, seasons are just three and they quickly change

They too have some specific reasons to change

Me too dear, from a part of the same nature and phenomenon

Do I get applied some different process?

and life itself is another name for change

Should I tell you this?

Just then my dream got disrupted

The fairy queen disappeared

But I understood the meaning of 'THE DREAM'...

NEHA BHANDARKAR 

NEHA BHANDARKAR is widely published Iconic Marathi Poet, embellished with numerous national and international awards for her consummate literary skill mused about in her writings. She is published author of 16 books in various languages. She is trilingual author writing in Marathi, Hindi and English and also a genuine translator. Many of her poems and stories are being published in many international anthologies, magazines and E Zines.  Some of her poems, stories have been translated in French, Albanian, Russian, Italian, Pilipino, Nepali, Greece, Odia, Bengali, Sanskrit Assamese and Brail script etc. She is winner of Central and State government awards from Government of India. She has bagged Hindi state Sahithya Academy Award twice. Her article is included in syllabus of Amravati University of India. Her poems have been broadcast on Quichotte Radio, FRANCE and Hindi Radio, CHICAGO (USA). She is a International PEACE Ambassador of Global Nation, Bangladesh. Moreover she is Cultural Ambassador appointed by International Forum of Creativity and Humanity, Morocco. As well as ambassador of Peace and Humanity for IFCH, Kingdom of Morocco.