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The Tresses!

Folks....this is an absolutely diff poem.....hadnt written anyting like all those 20 years of writing...in the few doz dittes written....long or short ones........serious or frivlous ones....dunno in which category it ll fall in...i ll categorise n reflect over it in posterity....time u hv a lil smile!!!!


As I go deep into my customary reverie
I often see the long dark dancing hair
Like the cascading waves of the young lover Bess
In poem 'The Highwayman' of Alfred Noyes
[http://www.potw.org/archive/potw85.html]

As the cat nap, starts looseing its grip
The hair is more like what we see around
Among teens!
Bubbly and restive; with a twinkle in the eyes

And with eyes wide open; I stare
At the crew cropped, 'Alert Hawk'.
Ready to pounce upon any flaw
With, all elegance and lil nonsense

Whichever way it is!
The long or short of it, is
I love those tresses
No end.

Feb 23, 2010 [technically Feb 24, 2010!!]
New Delhi

When i started writing what i wd write..there were two pieces playing in my mind...one of the attributes of a good entrpreneur...what a person shd be doing / not doing / keeping in mind / how much and how............another one on the virtues to knowing ur body and syncing with mind.......but look what has come about....something like a freudian out pouring...if not a slip
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