Gayatree G Lahon is a teacher by profession and a poet by passion. Being an ardent lover of nature and an observer of life with all its beauty and complexities, her poems reflect those elements in a subtle way. For her poetry is a celebration of life in all its myriad shades. Her poems have been published in newspapers, magazines and anthologies, in India as well as abroad.
Here are three of her latest poems:
Walking With You
The sky that shelters you loves me too
The wind you touch touches me too
The air you talk to carries your fragrance
Then why you get disheartened by the distance
Does the sky need a meeting point to love the earth !
Their love blossoms everyday with a new birth
Miles may lie between us..we may be far apart
But distance cannot separate those who are close at heart
It matters not that we walk different paths
Not the destination but the journey matters much
In the walk of life I always feel your hands in mine
No distance is too far when two souls entwine..
Untouchable
With a new extravagance everyday
I buy some light to brighten the twilight
In half light and half shadow
Far from the sea of crowd
Exists an entity, a fearless essence
Unmasked, content in itself
I am at ease with myself
With a strength that strengthens the aloofness
Lighting the corridors of heart
In the pristine wilderness of my inmost being
To rise beyond the shackles of hope and despair
Keeping the lamp burning inside…
Disintegrated
Under the shelter of a dark hazy sky
A seasonal joy wails on its death bed
A handful of lonely stars
With their bedimmed radiance
Express some emotions of grief
Reminiscing about a fair sky
The sky now looks like a disintegrated painting
But once it was bestrewn with the magic of our love ,
Adorned with the colours of love
Unknowingly somewhere in the air,
While trying to revert ,
The colour is lost
One was yours
One was mine