Water Lilies by Neetu

April 26, 2024 by in category Poet's Day by Neetu Malik tagged as , , , , with 2 and 4
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Water Lilies

wetting my feet
in the old pond

I pause           to remember
how it felt
back when the feet
were young and free

but memories wrinkle
and my skin is worn and coarse
to feel the same things

the water in this pond
too murky
to bring back
the clarity of fresh water lilies
and unclouded hopes

(c) Neetu Malik

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Neetu Malik
Author Bio
Born in India, Neetu has lived in Austria, England, and Canada before settling in the Eastern USA in 1994. Neetu’s eclectic work reflects her diverse background as she explores the joy and darkness of the human condition in poems and stories noteworthy for their intensity in brief span. Her poetry is published in journals and Anthologies from Australia, USA, UK, and India. Her poem, “Soaring Flames”, was awarded First-Place by the NY Literary Magazine (2017). She has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2019 for her poem “Sacred Figs” published by Kallisto Gaia Press in their Ocotillo Review in May, 2018.
https://www.asliceoforange.net/authors/neetu/
Neetu Malik
  • A Divine Bargain  by Neetu
    February 26, 2026

    I see you will haggle over your wares
    sell them to me for the price I ask
    I know you have many gods
    little and large, in stock

  • Haiku by Neetu
    January 26, 2026

    first snow
    flakes of a poem
    fall on my page

  • Reverie by Neetu
    December 26, 2025

    Shall we dip our brush 
    in the deep blue dusk 
    so we may paint joy 
    we stole from  
    the passing day 
    before it grows dark? 

  • Symphony by Neetu
    November 25, 2025

    all I hear is this song…

    carried to my ears upon waves
    as they ebb and return
    a symphony of love
    played on instruments
    of the heart—

  • Haiga by Neetu
    October 26, 2025

    sultry afternoon
    in the vast cornfields
    reaping gold

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Neetu Malik
Born in India, Neetu has lived in Austria, England, and Canada before settling in the Eastern USA in 1994. Neetu’s eclectic work reflects her diverse background as she explores the joy and darkness of the human condition in poems and stories noteworthy for their intensity in brief span. Her poetry is published in journals and Anthologies from Australia, USA, UK, and India. Her poem, “Soaring Flames”, was awarded First-Place by the NY Literary Magazine (2017). She has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2019 for her poem “Sacred Figs” published by Kallisto Gaia Press in their Ocotillo Review in May, 2018.
https://www.asliceoforange.net/authors/neetu/
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  • Veronica Jorge says:
    April 26, 2024 at 9:23 AM

    Beautiful, Neetu!

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