Witness

  

           you locked 
           up shadows
           in old chests
           with rusty hinges
           and ramshackle fittings
           those fields of tulips 
           seemed steeped 
           in blood & the weight 
           a thousand years 
           suspended from
           ropey tendrils swathed
           in straw , live twine
           the poplars wresting 
           sudden gales from
           the coast 
           their tall outlines 
           accusing the ochre wastes
           beyond and the striated
           skies while swathes
           of linnets sweep by 
           screechings ,  wings aflutter
           hastening the dusk 
           premonitions of thunder head
           down the headlands streaming

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Beata Agustin

Date: 9/5/2024 7:50:00 AM

Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts through your unique poetic style. Meanwhile, I greet you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.

Paris-Maree Boreham

Date: 8/3/2018 11:41:00 AM

You are an interesting writer Aroop Mitra, I enjoyed this, Thanks for sharing :)