The Wicked Beauty...

  •   Wed, Mar 21 2012
  •   By Neema Shahir

March 22, 2012

The Wicked Beauty...



A marvellous flower
The fabulous lover
Once dwelled in a plant
Blissed with enchant.

The flower and leaves
Had the perfect harmony
They swayed in the wind and
Happiness was there all around.

A beautiful fly
With colourful wings
Fluttered round the flower
Sipping out the sweet honey.

In the touch of the fly
The flower went high
I am lucky, thought the flower
To serve this angel flier.

The flower wooed the fly
with sweet scent and charming grace
They were the best friends
Vowed to be the inseperable ones.

The fly befriended the whole family
The leaves and the stem
And Oh! the buds and blooms
Awaited the charisma.

Then one rainy afternoon
She rested beneath the leaves
and gifted them with glittering tiny dots
As she flew away with the wind.
 
The leaves and the flower
Treasured those tiny dots
The gift fom the best buddy
It is the precious of all.

Little lives moved out from the dots
Countless number of worms
Some went to the stem
And others moved to the flower.

Ten thousands of legs crawling
Tiny mouths gnawing
The itchy hairs falling
All the leaves bawling.

After all the feeding and stinging
All that left behind was
Leaf skeletons and stumps
With a withered and dried out flower.

The flower looked around
Better gazed at the surround
Saw the enchanting fly
Fluttering back in the sky.

The cost of living
Had taken the living
With about to close eyes
The flower gazed at the sky
Wishing for the last glimpse of the fly.

 

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Comment on this article

  • R.Bhandarkar., M

    Tue, Mar 27 2012

    Went through 'Tears'
    It kind of tears
    For that Neema Shahir
    You should be Neema 'Shayyar'!!

  • Aloka Nath, Bengaluru

    Sat, Mar 24 2012

    Attract, use, be used, be of use, get used all law of nature...

  • Jimmy Noronha, Bellore, Lucknow

    Thu, Mar 22 2012

    Beautiful poem replete with figures of speeches and an Oxymoron to top it all.

  • Sandra D, Bahrain

    Thu, Mar 22 2012

    The wicked beauty
    did its duty
    the marvellous flower
    too was a dutiful lover

  • R.Bhandarkar, M

    Thu, Mar 22 2012

    How can beauty be 'wicked'?
    'Cause of a fly 'crooked'
    It lies in the eyes of the 'beholder'
    And stays even when he be 'older'!!

  • Jenifer Pinto-Suares, Dubai/Udyavar / Mumbai

    Thu, Mar 22 2012

    Lovely poem. very nice . keep them coming


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