Miniatures
By: Samreen Sajeda
I’m dazzled
By the images
Your poems paint—
Fingers carelessly peeling
Sand-paper lychees, tongue
Caressing pale-pink lumps of sugar.
A hushed gasp
Over a pigeon
Brushing past your hair.
Lazy, blazing noon
Sparrows stealing quick sips
from a cracked garden pipe.
Gulmohar flowers falling,
Flaming into scattered
Volcanoes of passion.
And manifold….
Poetry is an origami of words
Bargained for paper-boats!
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Samreen Sajeda is currently on the book reviews team at Jaggery Lit. She graduated in English literature from Sophia College, Mumbai. She completed an MA in the same discipline from the University of Mumbai. She is, at present, reading for a PhD in Palestinian poetry in translation. She writes poems and, occasionally, short stories. Her work has been published in the Indian Cultural Forum, Muse India, Spark, Jaggery Lit, Hakara, and elsewhere.