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Four Ghosts and Fashion Week by Kidd Wadsworth

October 31, 2025 by in category Poet's Day by Neetu Malik tagged as , , , ,

Four Ghosts and Fashion Week

I love runways and bangles and color and clothes.
With a sheet and two holes, I was ghastly not Vogue.
Is that Angel and Adalyn, Ava and Mags?
All in sheets and translucent, how stunning, how Fab!

One in front, on the left, on the right, one behind,
I am grabbed. Then we fly. This is blowing my mind.
Far below, Mom is handing out chocolate-nut bars
fruity Skittles and Twix, while I’m destined for Mars.

I must think really fast. With a loud mournful sigh,
I say, “Certainly fashion has bid you goodbye.
Your pale hue needs some blue, and your aura is plain.
Don’t despair. I can help. With my skills you will reign.”

To the first, I accessorize adding a hat,
then a glimmering belt, padded bra, she’s so flat.
To the second, a skirt, and a jacket with frills.
Would it be too cliché, can I say that she kills?

With a trench, and a pout, number three is Sam Spade.
With the fourth, I go goth, a black sheet, she’s decayed.
Transformations complete. I go home. My dad’s mad.
I’m so grounded. But hey, that’s okay, cause I’m rad.

©Kidd Wadsworth

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Haiga by Neetu

October 26, 2025 by in category Poet's Day by Neetu Malik tagged as , , ,

Haiga by Neetu

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Unwanted Companion by Neetu

September 26, 2025 by in category Poet's Day by Neetu Malik tagged as , ,

Unwanted Companion

I wait eagerly
for absolute darkness
to lose my shadow

it troubles me to
feel its presence
grow, then diminish,
but not disappear

I grow weary of its company
walking close
beside me, before me,
behind me

an appendage that
speaks its own
language 

formidable in
eloquence,
eerily chained to
my heels.

© Neetu Malik


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Stagnant by Neetu

August 26, 2025 by in category Poet's Day by Neetu Malik tagged as , , , ,

Stagnant

I drop pebbles     slowly
watch them fall
in a shallow stream

it runs cloudy
under such a pristine sky—

they ripple
and disappear 
from my eye—

but I know

they lie trapped
in murky debris
that rained down

from angry clouds

© Neetu Malik


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Foreboding by Neetu

July 26, 2025 by in category Poet's Day by Neetu Malik tagged as , , , ,

Foreboding

she reaches out
touches fog
she had hoped 
for the sun

to slip its silky warmth 
over her cold skin 
withered and splitting 

like the bark of a tree
not used to early frost

summer has not yet 
run its course, she whispers
as she exhales a misty breath

it is too soon for woodpeckers

in the woods, the air is dense
besides a lone goldfinch
she might be the only witness
to the end

© Neetu Malik


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