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ash of becoming a nobody (After ‘Fever 103°’ by Sylvia Plath)

Molten fires rage in a burning body, yearning towards its silent ash.

December 17, 2023

Molten fires on veiny palms, raging within this burning body.
Allow a few more tides, springs to burst into, burning body!
The weariness of the night sits impure on eyelids. What ends this hellish ache, this crying? Anybody?
Those blue bubble graffiti! Giant bells on sidewalks!
Hospital sheets to cobbled streets, this longing, anybody?
Morning dew skates into vapor, like Isadora’s scarf in the wheel.
Buds and flowers flush a meek pink; renewing their body.
Nightly counts, timers, and discharge; the hunt for the un-boxed paradise.
A camellia, de-ceasing into a cosmic body?
Bhajans for soul’s salvation; smokeless, instant; the rise of the body; the ash of becoming a nobody.
Flickering candle , to be snuffed, like everybody.
Flush, flush, this bronzed skin, time-bound like everybody.

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ash of becoming a nobody (After ‘Fever 103°’ by Sylvia Plath) and 2 other poems

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Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal

Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal is a bilingual poet from Singapore. She is a Pushcart 2021 nominee (Shot Glass Journal ) and recently released her second poetry collection ?Between Sips of Masala Chai?(Kitaab International, 2019). Her poems have been featured in QLRS? , Yearbook of English Indian Poetry-2021, OF ZOOS?, ‘atelier of Healing’, Shot Glass Journal, Taj Mahal Review, Anima Methodi , Asingbol, Unmasked- Reflections on Virus Times? amongst other anthologies and journals. Some of her poems written in Hindi have been translated into Spanish. She has read poetry in Malaysia, Mumbai, Australia and USA.

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