Wednesday, 25 October 2023

Poetry 2023 Longlist, Nivedita Rao

Moon


/For Maha Laqa Bai Chanda/


At the foot of the Moula Hills,

The poetess reposes

Her quill swirls

When the moonlight

drapes her Zenana



She is not a warrior

She is not a courtesan


Smitten by the

shape-shifting moon,

When she lets her words unfurl

Even the moon swoons

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