The wind was doing great,
I could feel it under my skirt.
The noodles tasted good
and the news
started annoying me again.
I was laughing at a friend's joke
when the woodpecker flew in.
It started hitting my head
reminding me
to remember you.
It follows me in metros,
it follows me in cafes,
it follows me in bathrooms
when I'm looking at my collar bone.
It checks into my dreams,
it pecks me
when I'm untangling my mane.
Take your bird,
oh lost lover,
I'll allow your memories
to make everything else
colourless again.

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With the red ROSE tucked
in your bun of HAIR
The WILD wind
keen to dislodge your SARI
We are aloof in our VELVET armchair
DISTRESS accrues in your tense inquiry
The WOODPECKER looking for more and more
Let's turn on to answer the PURPLE door...

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O my
read head woodpecker
go deep and deep
down in me
there is one
insect
making troubles
a lot to me

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Seated on a chair
a woodpecker taps its beak
reminisces home

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You're a beautiful woodpecker in the forest of my life.

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I'm a woodpecker
carving
out my days on the body
of a memoir tree.

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Drenched in a writer's lonely soul,
The evening was sombre & cool.
Serenity was its outer shell,
Artistic layers in depth it fell.

Leaves like thoughts shed randomly,
Wavering near and afar of me.
Danced like fairies, so pretty,
In blissful fraternity with gravity.

I heard yonder birds and bugs,
Choiring in the evening's wed.
I twitched with a sudden thrill to hear
A knocking sound, O' so clear!

'Hansel and Gretel', I followed the trails,
But, nowhere could I find the traits.
Series of trials dropped in vain,
Expect the striking noise ascertain.

Eyes trapped him guised in black;
A hooded guy with a scarf in red.
Busy was he pekking his home,
Fortunate was I, free to roam!

Anyhow I thrilled him bad,
He saved nil time to show him hard.
His wings met the gleaming sun,
Stardusting specks in spectacular sight!

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The birdsong, playful and light and at times like the woodpecker pecking the innards of negativity.

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सुबह सुबह रसोई की खिड़की पर ...खट खट् ...खट .
जानती हूँ मुझे बता रहे हैं ...कि देखो!
हम अपने साथी को तुम्हारी क़ैद से छुड़वा रहे हैं...।
मुस्कुरा देती हूँ...!हाँ ...हाँ ठीक है,छुड़ा लो...
है हिम्मत...तो बचा लो ...।
दो कठफोड़वा रोज़ आते हैं ,
पूरी तैयारी ...के साथ !
सुबह सवेरे...मेरी कार के साइड शीशे में फँसे अपने
दोस्त को बचाने...पूरी दोपहर करते हैं ...पूरी मेहनत....😓
शाम को लौट जाते हैं ...फिर अगली सुबह ...आने को...!

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