A tongue-in-cheek poem about Elsy, where love is commerce, exclusively for Different Truths.
She invested all her love
in that reputed stock
and sadly learned
that all was at stake.
Rich were the deposits,
not so the returns.
Sandwiched between
the bulls and bears
she could barely breathe
and lost her sleep.
Finally, she turned
to wingless words
breathing her grief out
for ease and peace.
Lo! Words turned winged,
and high up soared,
hatching poesy chicks
that crooned her to sleep.
She too flapped wings,
and nestled close to the chicks,
freeing herself for good
from bulls and bears!
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Elsy Satheesan is a retired Professor of English. She had been teaching in colleges under the Govt. of Kerala, India. Currently, she resides in Virginia, USA. ‘Random Musings’ is her first volume of poems. ‘Summer Snow’, is the forthcoming one. Her poems have been published in national and international anthologies. Short stories in Malayalam have been published in weekly and fortnightly, in Kerala. Humanity is her religion, and poetry, her passion.
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