Mamta Agarwal Poems

Evening casts early shadows in December.
As dusk falls heart is filled with longing,
I have an appointment, I suddenly remember…
Quickly I put on my coat and stockings.
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Touch

His warm, sideways glance
Wrapped me like an angora shawl-
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Please call me by my true name,
Not the ones that with tags came;
For it always reminds me
What I truly want to be…
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Can I lie dormant
As tulip bulb in winter
To hibernate,
And come up feeling better,
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Has our planet ever charged rent for living on it?
It shared its bounty, though some rules were implicit
How could we be so short-sighted and full of greed.
We may have to pay a price for this, God forbid.
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As I crossed
The threshold
Of my new home,
As a bride
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When toxic and volatile emotions
Are causing confusion and commotion,
Feelings are hijacked, hot thoughts race,
Mind gets enveloped in a rage.
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On a visit to granny in the Doon valley
It was March and the tree full of Mulberries.
Red, purple teasing from far, fetched a cane basket
Joyfully picked one, ate some while birds created racket.
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Destroyed the physical
Evidence of our love;
What to do with
Ones etched in memory?
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