Body Orchard (Spring)
By Sandeep Kumar Mishra

 

I taste these pears and peaches with my whole body,
as graceful as the first floret of springtime in a garden,
We watched for the first time a tropic moon
descend pine- orange into our yard,
I kissed your raspberry cheek and tasted
inviting mango juice on unbound rosy lips

 

“Sangam” of red roses and white lilies flow in
East- Asian almond cool aquamarine eyes,
A sharp nose pyramid a moon ring shine,
Long Thailandish slender neck and
Brazilian bloom-down-cheek’d peaches,
in your diamond apple body orchard

shaded under Indian long silky spirited locks

 

The plum tree in your garden is now

bursting into flower with the promise that
snowy flower buds give birth to ripe lilac plums
this autumn when you turn sweet sixteen

 

Garden fig is a glittering moist four-petalled flower,
After I strip off the blossom with my lips,
heavy with dotted green and red fruit,
marking each interlude with musical drops

 

The blackberries would ripen-a purple-green,
Like a bottle of old wine, its pulp was sugary,
sun's blood in it leaving good stains upon the
tongue and desire for more pickings

 

Sandeep Kumar Mishra from Australia is an Amazon Bestseller author of poetry Collection "One Heart- Many Breaks-2020", an outsider artist, poet. He is the guest poetry editor at "Indian Poetry Review". He has received "IPR Annual Poetry Award-2020" and "Literary Titan Book Award-2020". He was shortlisted for "Indies Today Book of the Year Award 2020" and "Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize 2021". He was also "The Story Mirror Author of the Year" nominee-2019.