Monday, November 2, 2009

The sunflower




















Dear
O very dear Van Gogh,
Bidding us good bye
You have risen
To the seventh sky
And here
Sunflowers bloom
All around your grave.


Just like the ones
You made them
on the canvas


The sunflowers
Offer prayers
Leaning on your grave
All eight times.




From ‘Pencil aur doosri nazmein’
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