Saturday, September 13, 2008

an exhibitionist - short poem


An exhibitionist!



When you watch the dripping rose

Dripping with sweet fragrance

Dripping honey and scattered pollen

Grains that glisten on the wings

Of the flirtatious butterfly

White golden dustings of grains

On the handsome bee?



The little girl who adoringly touches

The petals, while her nostril flare

In anticipation…

Of Love

Of

How momma will pick this rose

Up, and pin it to her curly locks

And she is going to look beautiful

For the party tonight

Prettier than the rest-



Would you, would you

Call it an exhibition?


And when an Amitabh recites

poems that his kavi father

had written,

albeit as a funeral note-

dripping a baritone

to an enthralled audience

nodding to the melliflous

words

or simply enjoying the super star...


would that be called an exhibitionist?










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