Would You Like Poem by Prasanna Mishra

Tell me
Would you
Ever like it
If the moon decides
To appear full
Night after night
And refuse
To take its crescent shape


If the meandering stream
Flows bosom full
Day after day
And declines to shrink
To its dancing frame


If the cuckoo sings
In your garden
Every morning
In season and out
Declining
To make its annual sojourn


If clouds
Cover the moon
Every fullmoon day
And block
Signals to the love lorn lily


If not dear
Why then do I yearn
Every moment
To look into those eyes
of yours
And listen
To their silent eloquence
To see those closed lips
Ever wearing
An idle crescent smile?

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