Dear Poet

Are you the dark orange tree of night?
A persimmon ebullient in a cave of little thoughts?
I'm following your thoughts
and not another trend
in poetry.
But I can't be like you
because you are wrapped up in you,
in the purity of your you in orange.

 
Prageeta Sharma, "Dear Poet" from Undergloom.  Copyright © 2013 by Prageeta Sharma.  Reprinted by permission of Fence Books.
Source: Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013)
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