Festival of Lights

From the sharp corners of the towering residence,
In perfect linear angles, the shadows slice the concrete path.
The blue party lights add ghostly vigour.
Brown hands toil, browned by rigour.


They dance around in rhythmic pandemonium
Through the murky cavities of the macabre residence.
Yet perfect silence prevails resolutely,
Stabbing vacuous corpses ruthlessly.
 

Through morning light they lie in deep slumber,
Fantasizing of animated times, now just tormenting rhymes.
And in the night, the foul feast begins again,
This is the festival of lights my dear men!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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March 9, 2011 at 5:20 AM
Congratulations on your poetry making it through round one of PoetrySoup's contest. The best to you in the finals Deepanshi. Love Carol
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December 15, 2010 at 9:17 AM
Loved your poem Thanks for your generous support during the year 2010 Looking forward to 2011 My Best Wishes to you Suresh Iyer, India
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December 7, 2010 at 8:54 AM
Congratulations Deepanshi on your excellent poetry being featured this week on PoetrySoup. May you have many more features. Love, Carol
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November 3, 2010 at 9:29 AM
You have expressed very creative thoughts on Diwali or Deepawali as you being Deepanshi. Wht don't you mae=ke the write in haiku and enter the contest, Holiday Haiku by Deborah Guzzi. I am also writing on the holidays that began today i.e. Dhan Tritiyadashi
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