Friday, May 6, 2011

When Mr love came calling..

When Mr love once knocked on these doors

I opened them with creaking hesitancy

To eyes full of wrinkles and skin in shackles

You’ve come a generation late I said

In bespectacled smile of my toothless sing song

Tidy up your hair he said...

Cheer up that frown...

Let me take a look at that face grown so brown

With tenderness of the bud I unfurled

Into arms so soft..and wept in the rhapsody of

Love that came in an age too late...

The flowers had fallen, the leaves all but yellow...

The girl you grew in love and with love..misty eyed & creaking yet

And yet the birds they sing and rainbows they spring too in backyards old..

In eyes that dream of dreamers still

Some dreamers lie but tender still...


© 2011 Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

Submitted to Jingle’s Thursday Rally Week 43:

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17 comments:

  1. The UnknowngnomeMay 6, 2011 at 6:29 AM

    Ah, an update to "Dreamers still.."
    (November 2, 2010)

    This is beautiful how you finished the original.

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  2. PurviMay 6, 2011 at 6:51 AM

    I super loved this poem.. Speaks for a million women now.. wow!

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  3. Bing YapMay 6, 2011 at 7:14 AM

    this is so sweet... love can never come too late, you know. it happens when it is least expected no matter what your age is. it is made sweeter when you find again a lost love. :)

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  4. K McGeeMay 6, 2011 at 7:56 AM

    Heartbreaking and yet somehow beautiful.

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  5. Linda Bob Grifins Korbetis HallMay 6, 2011 at 8:45 AM

    well delivered sentiments,

    love knocks the door,
    smiles will make you dance on the floor...

    welcome back.

    Happy Mother's Day to Moms around you. Blessings..

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  6. Salem LorotMay 6, 2011 at 9:24 AM

    Wow! More than what I bargained for. You write so well. I will be vising more for sure.

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  7. Subhrashis AdhikariMay 6, 2011 at 10:21 AM

    WoW....great as always...

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  8. Maitreyee Bhattacharjee ChowdhuryMay 6, 2011 at 10:49 AM

    Thanks so much everyone..:)

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  9. The PoetMay 6, 2011 at 11:37 AM

    LOVE...isn't that what we all crave in life, regardless of age, time or distance? It's never too late to love.

    Beautifully expressed.
    Thanks for sharing.

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  10. Thoughts Not LostMay 6, 2011 at 4:17 PM

    Lovely and well done!

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  11. IsabelMay 6, 2011 at 5:50 PM

    lovely ! this is awesome,

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  12. AnonymousMay 7, 2011 at 10:09 AM

    I enjoyed this a lot - and can relate to it, especially the middle bit.

    With tenderness of the bud I unfurled

    Into arms so soft..and wept in the rhapsody of

    Love that came in an age too late

    Bittersweet!

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  13. The Reason You ComeMay 7, 2011 at 6:18 PM

    Love knows no age, and it can outlive time! (That's the hope.) Oh, this is so romantic!

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  14. Maitreyee Bhattacharjee ChowdhuryMay 8, 2011 at 5:13 AM

    Thanks so much folks..I write cause you feel :)

    Regards

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  15. AnonymousMay 8, 2011 at 8:07 AM

    Beautiful it makes me think of my mom and stepdad large age difference but they growing old together and deeply in love =)

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  16. AnonymousMay 8, 2011 at 9:32 AM

    How well expressed! Nice thoughts. Like yellow leaves turning green again. Like dead hopes sprouting afresh again! :)

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  17. AxeeMay 9, 2011 at 4:07 PM

    ‎"Life knows only one moment, and that is the present. Life knows only one space, and that is here. Now and here: these two words are the most significant words in the human language; they represent reality." ~ Osho

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