Sting
by Muralidharan Mudaliar
Oh ye sting
Coiled and rearing
Straining to unleash
You
I nurtured in vile
For ages
Vicious, volatile,
Fangs barred
Seething
Closeted in a myopia
I brewed
In your venom
For ages
A temper perennial
A zest –tossed
On the gushes and cascades
But ye sting
I kept you honed
And on your tips
I strutted
And reveled
For ages
O’er life’s main
Over delirium and priorities
Over clouded passages of time
Fangs withdrawn
Simmering
I wonder
Where I gave you up
Sting venom et al
For the wisdom of silence
Over the ages
jun 87
End of the poem
15 random poems
- On A Good Man (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Sonnet : To Eva by Sylvia Plath
- Am I the Assassin or the Undertaker by T. Wignesan
- The Sound Of Music -a Ghazal by Umamaheswari Anandane
- The Seed Market by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Commitment by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- Низами Гянджеви – Ты рукой мне сжала сердце
- Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances. by Walt Whitman
- Acknowledgment. by Sidney Lanier
- София Парнок – Он ходит с женщиной в светлом
- Years by Sylvia Plath
- Николай Языков – Давным-давно люблю я страстно
- Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (В избушке позднею порою)
- Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time by William Shakespeare
- Songs From “Prince Lucifer” II – Mother-Song poem – Alfred Austin
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