December 13, 2016 - Vijaya Sundaram

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Jester in Repose
(Hanging at My Kitchen Window)
©December 13th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

A boy in a jester’s suit lies sleeping,

Chin in his frilled collar,

His three-belled court-jester hat

Curving over his dreaming face.

Curved upon a yellow-sickle-moon,

He folds one arm onto his chest –

The other arm slides away from shoulder,

Hanging down, sliding Earthwards.

His arm leads to a little hand

Holding a little golden bell,

That’s forever poised to ring

“Wake up!”

But it stays silent,

Until I give it a shake.
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Dec 13, 2016 Free Verse

Let’s climb, my friend
Up the Blue Mountain
Because inky stairs
Drip slowly up
And rain weeps down
Like a trembling veil,
And my legs yearn.

I can’t, not yet
Because marble clouds
And unicorn trails
Send sighing winds
And I might swing
Upwards and on,
And never return.

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