Winter’s Coming by Neetu

November 26, 2024 by Neetu Malik in category Poet's Day by Neetu Malik tagged as Fog, Neetu, November with 0 and 0

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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.

Some of Neetu’s Books

Pennsylvania Bards’ Eastern PA Poetry Review 2023

THE OCOTILLO REVIEW SUMMER 2018 VOL 2.2

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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