POEMORAMA AT PAPER POETRY
The Fellow Morning Wanderer
Nature’s Abundance
Subdued starlight vaporising above twisted banyan limbs, tousled tamarind boughs — a calm breeze permeates the tangerine spray of spring season in the bushes — punctuated by fireflies hours ago — notes of cicadas blown out — birds ushering into dawn chorus — cool beads sneaked in blades of grass — about to sink in splashes of sunshine
I steer myself for a morning walk — with path-length and time unmanned — pacing with morn’s angels on earth’s fresh chintz — stained by night’s woodblocks — still damp in infant hues of bleeding horizon — knots of russet sparrows sprinkled on the way — swerving to pick a wild seed or a stray worm besides incessant chitchat
blue magpies swimming across clear sky — cheering in liberal cackles — a chequered butterfly prancing around — red spangled flutter trickling on grass — a persistent winged companion soul — keeping in touch — now and then winking at me; a being persevering for a Midas touch
the metamorphosed mystic; a filigree of light in delicate dark — illumining me, perhaps — to connect my dreams with nature’s bandwidth— amid all this free flowing abundance — I sigh for my potted marigold in flush of bloom — his vainglory deflated yesterday — soil choked the air-starved.
Era Garg April 2022
The piece is composed for prompt 8 ‘Prose-Poem’ of Poemorama part l by Paper Poetry. Poemorama is a month long celebration on the eve of national poetry month (April 1 — April 30).
I admire editors of Paper Poetry for rolling the panorama of poetic forms. I would like to invite my fellow writers to let their pen dance for cascading poetic gems.
Dennett, Gurpreet Dhariwal, Erika Burkhalter Viraji Ogodapola, Tre L. Loadholt, Wild Flower, David Rudder, Carolyn Riker, Somsubhra Banerjee, Priyanka Srivastava.
Link to the prompt is here:
