Perpetual winter
She looked frozen. Yet it was not winter. Then what was the reason? The little sweet girl, she was only six. Her parents died and she was in a fix. An aunt took her care, the uncle was a rogue. He abused and molested her several times. But the scared one kept herself mum. Whom […]
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Winter’s Sorrow
How I wish This heart would ache As the little girl sold Soggy matches in the cold. How I wish This snow would soften As the tiny toes numbed Within worn-out boots, two sizes big. How I wish This frost would thaw As the stiff, wrinkled hands Trembled to hold the pail. […]
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Srivalli Rekha
Be gone thou infernal cold
Come not near me; be gone thou infernal cold! I abhor thee with my weary bones, oh so old. Go! Cavort with the young and the fighting fit, Leave me be, in relative peace let myself sit. Why o’ why, into my aged joints, must thou steal? O’ winter you scare me, in your […]
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Sonal Singh