Words

by Padmaja Iyengar-Paddy

Words....

Sometimes they gush
Sometimes they rush
Sometimes they hush
Sometimes they’re lush

Sometimes they spurt
Sometimes they hurt
Sometimes they’re pert
Sometimes they’re curt

Sometimes they flirt
Sometimes they blurt
Sometimes they skirt
Sometimes they’re dirt

Sometimes they care
Sometimes they dare
Sometimes they tear
Sometimes they’re fair

Sometimes they balm
Sometimes they calm
Sometimes they harm
Sometimes they’re warm

Sometimes they tell
Sometimes they sell
Sometimes they jell
Sometimes they’re hell

Sometimes they lie
Sometimes they sigh
Sometimes they cry
Sometimes they’re high

Sometimes they splash
Sometimes they clash
Sometimes they lash
Sometimes they’re rash

Sometimes they delight
Sometimes they highlight
Sometimes they slight
Sometimes they blight

Words...

Make...
Break...

Oh my words!
Fly like birds...

Do spurt
Don’t hurt...
Do balm
Don’t harm...

My words get wings
And fly like kites,
And like eternal springs,
They flow into my writes.

04-May-2013

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Comments on this Poem

Many thanks for that positive and encouraging feedback, truth seeker!

Padmaja Iyengar
12-Mar-2014 11:24 AM

Wow ! How nicely you have expressed magic of words. what you put there cent per cent true. I wish you more such poems happen to you .thank for so good write. Madam ji

truth seeker
12-Mar-2014 08:14 AM

Thanks for liking this one Rohini.

Padmaja Iyengar
11-May-2013 08:44 AM

Lovely poem, Padmaja. Enjoyed it immensely.

Rohini Rao
11-May-2013 06:37 AM

Thanks Kulbir for that poetic feeddback. And Akshaya it's always good to hear from you. Thank you both for liking this poem.

Padmaja Iyengar
06-May-2013 11:35 AM

Sometimes they fly,
And take you high
In the sky,
And I know why -
Thanks to you,
Thanks to you!

Kulbir
06-May-2013 08:33 AM

and when its you ma'am they just flow beautifully

akshaya
06-May-2013 07:24 AM

Thanks Rupradha for liking this poem and for your positive feedback, which coming from a poet of your stature, means a great deal to a greenhorn like me. But one correction, by no stretch of imagination am I a genius as I'm a beginner and a learner still...

Padmaja Iyengar
05-May-2013 13:29 PM

too good..you are a genius!! I am enthralled by your words!!

Rupradha
05-May-2013 09:42 AM

Thanks Seshuji and Prabha.

Padmaja Iyengar
05-May-2013 06:56 AM

Hats off to your wonderful and meaningful play of words. Really enjoyable.
Prabha

Prabha Ramadurai
05-May-2013 02:29 AM

What a flow. Liked it.

Seshu Chamarty
05-May-2013 02:04 AM

Thanks Dr Mallik and Kingshukji.

Padmaja Iyengar
05-May-2013 00:29 AM

Indeed they flow............... wow!

Kingshuk
04-May-2013 09:21 AM

Lovely one, Padmaja. Great play of words in your composition. I enjoyed reading it.

Kumarendra Mallick
04-May-2013 08:53 AM