Joy
Joy is sudden, gradual, elusive
and sometimes downright grotesque
it can creep up to you
when you least expect it and
or can exist in the residual amount
when you want it in abundance
Joy is unexpected when a sudden rush of warm feeling
fills you from within
in the middle of a eulogy
and you picture her perfectly
in her auburn hair standing on the porch
braving the harsh sun
which is burning her bare shoulders
and the air is doused
with apple tinged perfume
Joy is perfunctory
when you exchanging
those smiles
tightly tucked between your teeth
as you walk slowly with
steps measured in equal proportion
heading towards the
wheel of life
Joy is that sudden urge
which lights up your skittish heart
like the strides of the Aurora Borealis
and with is grandeur
mesmerizes you
and within a speck of a second
takes you back to the
banality of lies
Joy is many flavors of awe
just like the million flavors
in that ice cream shop and
you are mesmerized
like a child
standing there
meditating
/in fact/
for a moment
Joys are crotched of memories
which we pick up and unspool in private
running it incessantly on the
spokes of time
Joy is unattainable
uncertain;
untenable;
unsustainable
and everything in betweenBio :
Bio
Megha Rani lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. She is also a contributing author at GoDogGO Cafe, Candles Online, FVR Publishing, Whisper and the Roar and Poets Corner.
Her works have been featured in GoDogGoCafe, Whisper and the Roar, Duane Poetree, Visual Verse, Vita Brevis, Poets Corner, Modern poetry, Spillwords Press, Indian periodicals, Literary heist, Little Rose Magazine, The Quiet Corner, Writer’s Cafe Magazine, and coming up in Modern Literature,KOAN(Paragon Press), Dime Show review and many more.
She recently won the 1st prize in NAMI NJ Dara Axelrod Mental Health Poetry contest. She blogs at https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/.
So thankful to the editor Jeanette for publishing my work and supporting me. Jeanette, I write under the name “Megha Sood” I would really update if you can change it in the current publication.
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Thanks so much for sharing Megha’s poem!! A very talented author!!!
Thanks, Chuck for your unrelenting support.
In awe with you poems dear!
This one is beyond beautiful ❤
Thanks so much Yasmin.