Samples of Anuradha Sharma’s Poems

I WANT

I want to scale

the pyramids of dreams.

Bestow me with warmth

of your passion

to uphold the flight

till the end

with my ardent drive.

I want to conquer

the intensity of every strife.

Offer me the touch

of the extended hand

of your unquestionable

care for me.

I want to nurse

the silent pains of the traded flesh.

Grant me an oceanic fabric

to spread over the fiery sands.

I want to build a nest

with the foliage of fondness

for the overtaxed limbs.

I will keep singing

The psalms of my soul

on the veena of arteries

for you.

Your are

a deliverer

for me.

--Anuradha Sharma—

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AN INDIAN WOMAN SAYS

My love is my lord

that I cannot vision

in the landscape of murky myths.

It is the elegy of my silence

that I cannot write

in the corridors of my creed.

My love is the tear

of the chimera that I cannot wipe

and

the appraisal of my mettle

that I cannot refute.

My love is buried

in my cave of the note

that I cannot play

because I am patronized

by the holiness of Sita,

Draupadi and Ahilya.

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Anuradha Sharma

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Love Letter to Husband

1

You loved

even imprudent gaffe

I made.

I was the nucleus

of your actions.

Your talks centered

around me.

You were never fed up

when you spoke

of beauty,

physique and lips

and…

I felt incarcerated

to caucus

and fluttered wings

to fly.

You brought shears

to outline my plumes

and now

I hop around your house

but can not fly.

2

When I entered here with you

veiled,

tumbling a bowl of rice with right foot

at the entrance,

I was a clam at high tide.

Later cacti grew.

My smile, my laughter

and my words

evoked peaks in you.

I barely could tread

upon that precinct,

when I left

those hidden spaces

with bleeding feet,

mutely I resolved

to breathe.

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Anuradha Sharma

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