Short Sidelong Poems

Jean-Honore Fragonard
with paint was quite a card
Cheeks & bosoms all had a place
in sidelong glances in passionate embrance...

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Starlit sky is here again
Looking back and looking in

My favorite moon has always been
A sliver like a sidelong grin

when was it then did I decide
With just little touch of pride

To look upon the brighter side
With manly eyes that only cried

 Alone...

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waxing

at her sidelong glance
sun, fear of falling in love
blushes hides and sets

full

enthroned blissfully
on chariot of fair lambs
in her bridal charm

waning

rubbing shoulders with
the hard haughty hazy sky
she grows weak and thin


19 July 2021...

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Sidelong the sun beats
                  in warm pan where loves
                  naturally happen
                  Mature love between
                  apples and peaches,
                  and looks of pure flirtation
                  grapes and cherries ...
                  Nothing carnal ,,,
                  pictorial
                  only ...!...

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leave me 
in my solitude
to enjoy the silence

let myself
float on
a peaceful river

I lend my petal’s ear
to the wave
and enjoy it’s lullaby

a moment

my longing begins to languish

the sidelong glances of beetles and butterflies

in my park’s hustle

I hope to pick up early dawn 
greet the dew 
and feel their coolness

glance at 
sea breeze
impassioned in longing

bring me back

to my garden
where I belong to

and sit there
as a silent rose

~ (c) Sukmawati Komala ~
08 June 2013...

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