On a Ramble
by Sujatha Warrier
Legs dangling over the edge of the horizon
Feet splashing in the Milky Way
Watching the moon as it turns a corner
And stars light up and disappear
Drenching in the glow of a meteoric shower
In the wake of a comet’s dusty trail
Basking in the aura of an approaching dawn
Before the sun is well on its way
Evading a blinding encounter
I steal away from its glaring gaze
To a farther edge of the horizon
Beyond the reach of its scorching rays
To dangle my legs and splash my feet
In the cosmic brook once again.
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Sujatha Warrier works as writer, editor, researcher and translator. Her poems have been featured by a few online literary societies and journals such as Oz Poetic Society, Shot Glass Journal, Muse India, etc. Her poems have also been included in a few anthologies, the latest being Synthesis (An International Duet-Poetry Anthology), Anthesis (An International Anthology of Poems), Suvarnarekha (An Anthology of Indian Women Poets Writing in English), and World Anthology of Poems on Global Harmony and Peace.
