Five Liners31-35 Poem by Indira Renganathan

31 The Fragrant Love

'I take your fragrance with me'
He took the rose from her plait and gone
Amused though her shyness let her not ask back
But he came back with a bunch of roses and said
'let me go back with one to come back with many'


32 Thinking

Thinking is a work lonely
Yet it is not lonely
As it involves myriad thoughts
To give both confusion and clarity, at last
Body and mind to rest fatigued wholly

33 Lady's-Finger

Her tenderly limned fingers sowed the seeds
I the watcher watching the seeds grow to
Blossoming then to yielding Lady's-Fingers
Like that of the sower's fingers. Dried though
Lady's-Finger still's pretty like lady's fingers

34 A Promising Love

He came to her in moonshine as promised
Bound in love stayed long. But soon when
Moonshine downed she urged him to go back
As their secrecy might get caught. But he stayed
Long in sunshine to tie the knot as promised


35 Mynah

Fleeing fast a bird of war and peace
With brown and white patches under your wings
Yellow beak and legs with yellow patch
Behind your eyes, a look wily. Your clarion-trill
Alone, to me, is an inviting musical piece