If I can keep her lips to kiss
How I peer at piano's lifeless plate,
And crave, covet to be that plucky piece
Which, silken soft her fingers gets to kiss,
Now dancing sprightly, now at gentle gait,
Whilst my lips starve, and eyes left but to stare,
To wait for once in lifetime blue-moon chance,
A flitting hope to steal a furtive glance
At gutsy keys I can’t but grin and bear.
O plucky keys, my bugbear and black beast,
Pray, seldom can I paint my attitude
Fair, a duel of hound and hare the least—
That, life-less wood so crude should prove so good.
So, let that wood blush O in rosy bliss
To have kissed fingers, if I can the lips.
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Sonnet |15.11.2008| kiss, envy
Poet’s note: This piece draws no mean inspiration from Shakespeare's Sonnet 128. Let imitation at best be still an imitation, but it is my way of paying tribute to the bard. An attempt that falls short of the bard’s subtlety in painting the scene.
Copyright © Aniruddha Pathak | Year Posted 2024
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