By Nishi Pulugurtha

The Morning Glory
A green mossy wall
Broken glass pieces
Some thread, a used bottle, cut –
and the green
that flowers.
On some days
in the cloudy light it
smiles.
The small droplets cling
And shine bright.
The tiny yellow bud
That blooms this morning
just for a little while.
Fleeting . . .

Drops on a Periwinkle
Jutting through masonry
from small cracks and crevices
the small green plants crop up
breaking through.
In a few days the violet flowers
that dance in the wind
and shine in the sun, bring more colour.
The little drops of rain
beaded and full
cling onto the bright green leaves.
on the bent stem
that still holds on.
Burdened, yet strong –
The dim, dull light causes patterns
in the drops
that flash at times too.
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Dr. Nishi Pulugurtha is Associate Professor in the department of English, Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College and has taught postgraduate courses at West Bengal State University, Rabindra Bharati University and the University of Calcutta. She is the Secretary of the Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, Kolkata (IPPL). She writes on travel, film, short stories, poetry and on Alzheimer’s Disease. Her work has been published in The Statesman, Kolkata, in Prosopisia, in the anthology Tranquil Muse and online – Kitaab, Café Dissensus, Coldnoon, Queen Mob’s Tea House, The World Literature Blog and Setu. She guest edited the June 2018 Issue of Café Dissensus on Travel. She has a monograph on Derozio (2010) and a collection of essays on travel, Out in the Open (2019). She is now working on her first volume of poems and is editing a collection of essays on travel.
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2 replies on “In Memory of Spring”
Love them… Especially the second one. 😊
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