I wanted to show you
Every aspect of self
So you could understand
I was perfectly
Made for you
My love.
My heart danced
Like a daffodil
In the tranquil breeze of your love
And now;
It became a leafless tree
Of late winter.
Your love injured me
With a sharp knife;
There blooms a red rose
With each cut
To give a feeling
Of painless hurt.
You have
Always been enough
I hope
My dear
Which made you
Understand it.
But I still remember
Your last hug;
Which feelings were
Like a thrill of a winter night
To cover my heart
With icy dust.
Now;
I am picking up
A handful ash
From the bottom of my heart
That reflects the bare image
Of your love.
Monalisa Parida
Picture Nick Victor
Bio:- Monalisa Parida is a post graduate student of English literature from India, Odisha and a prolific poetess. She is very active in social media platforms and her poems have also been translated into different languages and publish in various e-journals.
She has got 100 international award for writing poetry. Her poems have been publishing international e-journals “New York parrot”, “The Writers Club” (USA), “Suriyadoya literary foundation”, “kabita Minar”, “Indian Periodical” (India) and “Offline Thinker “, “The Gorkha Times “ ( Nepal), “The Light House”(Portugal), “Bharatvision”(Romania), “International cultural forum for humanity and creativity”(Aleppo, Syria), “Atunispoetry.com”(Singapore) etc. And also published in various newspapers like “The Punjabi Writer Weekly(USA)”, “News Kashmir (J&K, India)”, Republic of Sungurlu (Turkey)” etc.
One of her poem published an American anthology named “The Literary Parrot Series-1 and series-2 respectively (New York, USA)”. Her poems have been translated in various languages like Hindi, Bengali, Turkish, Persian, Romanian etc. And she is the author of the book “Search For Serenity”, “My Favourite Grammar”, “Paradigm”, “Beyond Gorgeous”.