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Smelling Oranges on Winter Afternoons- Payal Mukherjee

Childhood lazy winter afternoons, school on break, lolling on baked terraces, orange peels drying in the afternoon sun, the smell of orange zest hanging in the air like the warm fuzzy sunshine. Isnt there something about orangey smells which brings back the child in each of us?

Monday, April 7, 2008

Ordinary poem

I am an ordinary girl with an ordinary life
My ordinary day leads to an ordinary night
I work, I play, I eat, I drink
Life ebbs and flows, I rise and sink
I trudge along much travelled streets
Of roadside flowers Im but the weeds.
One day Ill lay myself to rest
Then, of me let just this be said
She was ordinary in all the above
But she had an extraordinary love.

7 comments:

Noisy Autist said...

this is very nice way to put it.

Macadamia The Nut said...

Amazing! Isn't that what really matters in the end? Loved the way you avoided using flowery phrases.

Ghost writer said...

simple ...a good read :)

elusive said...

beautiful n simple..n one of the VERRY few poems I managed to read till the end :)

nefariousoutlook said...

well said !!!!

Antigone said...

this is beautiful. i simply love this one by you.

Sourav said...

if you can put yourself to rest Like Bheeshma did, you cannot be ordinary can you? :)