Selfie With Spring Flowers! Poem by Swamidhason Francis
Selfie With Spring Flowers!
Like roadside call girls bewitching wretched male humans,
The spring flowers beckoned me, creating in my heart demons
Of romance, which leaped like possessed belly dancers of Arabia.
My mind couldn’t halt my impulsive heart that raced as a horse of Arabia,
Defying barriers of barren land towards the beauties beyond the sand dunes,
As it danced in glee like a glamorous Bollywood diva to the madras Mozart’s tunes.
The yellow flowers on the meadows looked like the female fellows of Mongolia;
The purple ones crippled the dazzling stars of Kollywood creating ripples across India,
Whereas the red roses rose among lilies making a mat of the landscape of dry Libya.
The ensemble made a beautiful bouquet out of a roadside tree,
Romantically outshining in beauty the dancing daffodils of Wordsworth’s poetry-
And kindling the child in me to have a ‘selfie’ in a shameless glee!
1 May,2015.
A lovely poem, with a 21st century twist. Thanks for sharing, Swamidhason. Peace
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As I progressed my reading, I caught a glimpse of Wordsworth's poem and then I saw you mention about it! My personal view is that poetry needn't be lengthier as prose. They call it blank verses but I to my mind, poetry can be more rhyming and musical. Rhyme and music will directly go to our heart and sing there and stay there for generations. That is the beauty of such verses. So, as poets, we may try to concentrate on these area. You may have your views but I am giving you some food for your thoughts. Another view which I want to share with you is that if we can omit proper nouns like Bollywood or Kollywood in our poetry, we may universalize the theme. Proper nouns often limit our themes to a limited focus. More than presenting a theme as part of a description, if we can universalize the same theme by a different presentation, such poetry will definitely stay for generations.