You are there
Distant and desirous
The ache for a Sunday
When a Monday has just begun
You are sweet reward
My love
When six days
Like oceans
Have been crossed
When the week’s ennui
And the fatigue
From daily television fanning such hate
And pockets full of daily chores
Are all done…
You are there
For me
On a day of rest
For us to love
For us to sin
Loving you
Like a Sunday
Comes with the wisdom
Of things that will linger
Only because
They must be gone
The rest of the world
Is but
Six days of inconsequential interim
To reach you
Poem by Vandana Kumar
Image by Adam Strong
Vandana Kumar is a French teacher, translator, recruitment consultant, Indie Film Producer, cinephile and poet in New Delhi, India. Her poems have been published in national and international websites of repute like ‘Mad Swirl’, ‘ ‘Grey Sparrow Journal’, ‘The Piker Press’,
‘Dissident Voice’, ‘Borderless journal’, ‘Madras Courier’, ‘Outlook’ ‘Ink Pantry’ etc. She has featured in literary journals like ‘Fine Lines’ and anthologies like ‘Harbinger Asylum’, ‘Kali Project’‘But You Don’t Look Sick’ etc. Her cinema articles appear regularly in ‘Just-cinema’ and
Daily Eye. Her debut collection of poems ‘Mannequin Of Our Times’ was published in February 2023.The book has been awarded The Panorama International Book Award 2023.
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4 replies on “Of Sunday Loves & Lovers”
Stunningly beautiful. 🎉
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Poetry brings out the extrovert and gives one a glimpse of the personality of the poet . All inhabitations disappear when feelings are laid bare in metaphors . Sunday is for us to Rest, Love and sin, naked truths have no place to hide when words become subtle emotions .
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Longing for loved one , reminiscing their intimacy and colluding it with the Sabbath day the has woven this poem like a beautiful dream from which one wouldn’t want to wake up.
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The world is enamored with a Sunday…a myth a serious flaw, though for the poet it’s a great opportunity to weave words of praise and Love.
All days are there building your life, how a day of rest becomes important is with a hope to be together, a moment we crave is available in each moment. Love and Happiness, the company of humanity in relations, it could be a Sunday or any other day. Our minds have been primed for a weekend a Sunday any holiday like Christmas, New Year anything….ask the mind did you relish the Sunday or a regular day is good….
The signs of struggle in your life makes a Sunday beautiful 😊
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