Once Upon A Time And Other Poems

By O. Susmita

So many stories to be told and so many words to do it in. Not every story need be in prose, with sentences and paragraphs and an intro-body-conclusion structure. Some stories are better this way- narrated in verse and sang as poetry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: O. Susmita
• Release date: Apr 9, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310753848

O. Susmita

I like writing. I like reading. I like the feel of a paper as it gently brushes under my thumb or as my pen skims rapidly over its surface. I like empty notebooks and the promises they hold. Just as I like a book with its pages filled with the imaginations from minds afar. There are so many stories to be told and listened to in this world and this is, but, a small beginning.

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ONCE UPON A TIME AND OTHER POEMS

BY O. SUSMITA

Table of contents

Once upon a time

Silent

Letters to santa

The shadow

The ballad of a man and his coat

Sink

The story of the Sad Lady

Lost

And one day, she cried

Millie

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Copyright © 2015 by O. Susmita. All rights reserved.

In lands far far away,

In a time before time remembers,

A story was born to stay

in the minds that then held sway.

It was a normal day that dawned forth

with the grass turning green

and flowers blooming fresh,

as an old cart pulled up

to the door painted in green.

Odd was the creature that stepped out-

bent over with age or with gout,

holding a stick close by the chin,

it hobbled up to the door painted in green.

Knock! Knock! Knock! sounded he.

With an impatient wrist and an irritated sigh,

it waited for the welcome

and that which is closed, for it to open.

A rustle of an apron

A clink of the locks

And the door swung open

And a smile shone through the light.

No smile in return did the old one give

No hand to shake did the bent one offer

Just he knocked