MEMORY ENCASED
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Manas Bakshi (India)
Memory of childhood
Lonesome everyone cherishes --
Words that’ve not yet died
Revive at old age,
Settle on the borderline
Between oblivion and remembrance
To ask:
Why love in prime was so delicate?
Two pigeons on a cornice
Once taught
The art of love making,.
The lullaby of childhood
Enjoyed under
The lamp of adolescence
Invoked one day
Instinct's maze,
And the manna of first kiss
In secret --
Unforgettable
If fructifies,
Even if not.......
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