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Then and Now | Fotoula Reynolds

Over rooftops fly
All of my yesterdays
I watch them stretch
Beyond the orange
As they disappear
Into my tomorrows
Carrying traces of the
Woman I used to be

A swallow flew between
Me and the sun and all
Was large and calm in
The safety of mother’s
Garden-arms where
Flowers replaced words
And houses full of mockery
Stood quiet in the shadows

Lifted with rough courage
Through serene days of
Life and death threading
Beads of glass around my
Home of earth and bricks
I found integrity staring at me
Like a graceful and loving gift
I will cherish the then and now

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Of Love and Other Demons! | Deepti Sharma

January 11, 2024 / Poetry Website / eleventh hour poems, flowers poems, free poetry websites, love poems, modern poets, moonlight poems / 2 Comments

In the diagonal hour of the midnight
that morphed into
a tattoo on her back..
I saw a purple rainbow
that faded as the dawn cracked.
The winding trails
that crawled to her..
immersed in the holy water.
Either my resin hard dreams were to be baptised..
or the misty reality was to be slaughtered.
The feral sorcery of her charm
simmering with the magic herbs..
hemmed my tattered misgivings..
the intentions were never misjudged.
The abundance of my pinning heart
and the economies of her presence!
Like the shadow in the daylight
that redeems with a full moon credence.
Like still ripe sepia hues….
of the picture from the yore..
under that ochre autumn tree,
that at the eleventh hour still stands tall.
In the shadow of its vestigial promise,
I brought my sins and carnations…
come love, meet me under the moonlight
when reasons need not oblige a million adaptations!