It Isn't Time That's Passing -- Ruskin Bond

Guest poem sent in by Ankur Agrawal , as part of the Poems
by Authors theme

(Poem #1364) It Isn't Time That's Passing Remember the long ago when we lay together In a pain of tenderness and counted Our dreams: long summer afternoons When the whistling-thrush released A deep sweet secret on the trembling air; Blackbird on the wing, bird of the forest shadows, Black rose in the long ago summer, This was your song: It isn't time that's passing by, It is you and I. -- Ruskin Bond

This poem has all the trappings of any Ruskin Bond prose: the creation
of vivid images from nature to convey emotions, an elegance born out of
simplicity, nostalgia and yearning for old friends.  Like most of his
other writings which I read as a schoolboy, this doesnt fail to strike
a chord instantly.

Ankur Agrawal

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