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Bejewelled

Nandita De Nee Chatterjee Once I chanced upon a placid pool
in a clearing in the woods.
Set amidst an emerald arc
Writer/Freelance/Journalist/housewife. Formerly with Economic
Times. Cover stories and Feature Writer with Statesman, Illustrated like a moonstone pendant dazzling in the day.
Weekly, Economic Times, Telegraph, Times of India, Femina, Clouds lost in the sky
Filmfare, Germany Today, Voix Meets Mode, UK, Frontier Weekly, found wandering here.
Namaste Ink. Was Part Time Lecturer at Calcutta University The nymph of the forest
Journalism department, PG for 7 months. Was Consulting Editor, caressing her dangling jewel.
Environ. Launched Economic Times Marketplace for ET. Co
Author, Big Bang of Non-Fiction, Life in Reverse; 30 Best Poets; Sea; And on a bough bending over the silver ripples
Coffee & Echos; Wrapped Up Feelings; Poetry Planet's Christmas in
Was an array of surreal wonder.
my Heart , Moonlight; Asian Literary Society's A Kaleidoscope of Asia Beauty unsurpassed in the natural world.
& A Bilingual Anthology of Poems, Poetry Planet's Writers' Haven &
Rewrite the Stars; Heart of a Poet by inner child press anthologies.
Suddenly one dropped into the pool.
Resplendent colours flashed in the listless day.
Like Monet's canvas
Transcendental glory in fluid display.
The Follower One by one they joined the rest.
Mandarin Ducks.
Summer Solstice. A floating caravan of crayons.
The long day dragged. An impressionist's wildest dream come true.
Clammy heat, parched throats.
Nary a soul on the streets. @Nandita De Nee Chatterjee
Suddenly a waft of dry breeze.
The shadows underneath the tree danced.
Mesmerizing the lines and curves.
Colourless yet alive.
I never colour

I twirled too in response. my subjects
My shadow followed my whims. nor I paint
How many restless summers? my verses ;
Moments of distress, ennui…
Lonesome hours, despairing days?
They are dyed

Here i was in my blood,
tracing shapes in the streets And are seen
the tree scripting my story on a hot tarmac. loving in red.
Telling my shadow, you're free.
Adieu, good friend.
...Author

@Nandita De Nee Chatterjee

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