Dear Poet
Are you the dark orange tree of night?
A persimmon ebullient in a cave of little thoughts?
I'm following your thoughts
and not another trend
in poetry.
But I can't be like you
because you are wrapped up in you,
in the purity of your you in orange.
Prageeta Sharma, "Dear Poet" from Undergloom. Copyright © 2013 by Prageeta Sharma. Reprinted by permission of Fence Books.
Source:
Undergloom
(Fence Books, 2013)
