Srinagar, Dec. 20 -- Winter Poems by Lily Swarn

Winter is still hibernating in my lush tresses

Letting the chill creep beneath the moisturized skin

The bones weary with carrying my skeletal self

Each breath a loan from my burrowed beloved

Many moons drizzled their silvery munificence

On the miasma of my recalcitrant dreams

Many suns bled on flaming horizons

To shake my autumn leaves afresh

Only you existed in your chosen hermitage

Waiting for the frost to freeze my soul

Winter Nights

Mists rising behind the vain moon

Veiling its hypnotic magnetism

Slyly disappearing from feasting eyes

Collyrium hued clouds of cloaking burquas

Keeping under wraps her glimmering aura

Winter rain seeping into crannies of hearts

Icy rivers m...