Mar 31, 2017 NaPoWriMo, Original Poetry
Canis Major
©March 31st, 2017
By Vijaya Sundaram
If you meet my gaze
You will see our days
Streaming with the stars
And you’ll see my eyes
Brimming with surmise.
Near, and yet so far,
Far away, you stare,
Sitting, unaware,
At that lighted box.
Scratching at the door,
Scuffing up your floor –
I want my evening walks!
O you hard of heart!
Wait till we’re apart –
Then, you’ll moan and sigh.
Leave that box of light,
Take a walk tonight
See me in the sky!
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This is my second submission for Day 1 of NaPoWriMo 2017
Mar 31, 2017 Haibun, Original Poetry
Sugar-Frost Fur, Cold Feet
(A Haibun)
©March 31st, 2017
By Vijaya Sundaram
Snow falls, fat and lazy, dreaming of Christmas in March. Dog gazes out, blanketed in puzzlement – what happened to yester-sunny-day? Memory is a shaky thing, fragile as an old woman with paper-thin skin, but she nudges the canine mind, and Dog steps out, resigned and eager, both, snow-blind. Her fur frosts like sugar. She sniffs the air, investigates the perimeter of our backyard, placates the snow-gods, steps as if on shards, then returns, paws ice-hard.
Paws leave hasty prints
I was here! and here! (they say).
Feet, meet kitchen-warmth!
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Today is the first day of NaPoWriMo 2017.
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