January 2021
Neera Kashyap
neerak7@gmail.com
Bio Note: For the first time, I saw a small poem of mine feature in an expensive book in hard-back coffee table format! The anthology's theme being, 'A writer's perception of light', each piece was set off with vivid flourishes of painting. Sent free to contributors, it felt so different from having to buy a book for one's work or to lose it among a host of PDF anthology files! Back on earth, I wrote more poems and tried my hand at a short-short story on the theme Erotica, choosing dream as a way to resolve the distortions produced by erotic fantasy! Two poems were selected for the Kali anthology on women's equality to be published by Indie Blu(e) publishing (USA) and a 'Haiku without verbs' by Poetry Pea Journal.

Tanka string
Summer home

rain comes to the hills
just as I enter home
leaving the city desert…. 
light, irregular, drumming
rain and heartbeats flow as one
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here in solitude 
mind just sees
vistas of blue hills; 
waits like a crouching cat… 
to spring up with restless thoughts 
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plump pink clouds descend
nestle in blue washed ranges
I smile at the hues -
a girl rises from a sparse field
smiles at my pink umbrella
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in a luscious orchard
a peach tree stands barren 
a forest fire flares—
a singed orchard and the peach
shocked into pale pink flowering
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giant snow rock—Mt. Nanda Devi
clouds drift over your summit
the veil lifts—
taller than other snow crests
I see you from my window
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©2021 Neera Kashyap
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