Winter’s Coming by Neetu

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Winter’s Coming

November draws me
into bleak arms

I wonder where the leaves
have gone—

though I know, yet I walk in
nameless hope
of miracle
in this ghastly fog

so dense, so deep that
I am lost

stepping on crumbled
autumn stalks

I remember your face
with wisdom drawn,
how it still shone
after its light was robbed

but now there’s just me,
the part that’s left of your artery

the purple sunset a reminder
of  approaching dark,

who I am and how
mortal we are.

© Neetu Malik


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Author Bio
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.
  • Haiku by Neetu

    first snow
    flakes of a poem
    fall on my page

  • Reverie by Neetu

    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

    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

    sultry afternoon
    in the vast cornfields
    reaping gold

  • Unwanted Companion by Neetu

    I wait eagerly
    for absolute darkness
    to lose my shadow

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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.

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