I invite them my cheeks to smudge
They hide behind my eyes refusing to budge
Retreating to my throat they choke me
Settling their weight in my heart they mock me.
-Shail Mohan (Dec 2008)
Reposted from shail-mohan blogs @sulekha.com
Shail's Nest
Where fingers tap dance…
Why are you trying to cry?
Me: Maybe coz I had enough of smiling Shilpa!
Sadly beautiful, Shail
Me: Thanks Bob!
beautiful… got a lump in my throat readin
Me: Thanks Sashu!
Ouch…sad but beautiful! how do u do this, shail? u move so effortlessly between prose and poetry…always amazes me!
Me: Ganga, truly no idea! Thanks!!
Again ever considering writing a book or soemthing…
Me: Not yet Bindu!
(((((hugs)))))
Me: Hugs back at ya Bubbly.
Sad they make me feel!!!
How can pain can be described so beautifully>
Me: IHM, wow thanks!!
You have been tagged Shail
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Me: Have taken a look at it. Will surely get down to it soon. Promise IHM!
Simply awesome…
I guess you’re a wizard with 4 liners… I’m with One liners
Me: Wow, thanks Rakesh. Lets hear some of those one-liners!
Me: Hmm… I guess I know why you are smiling! ‘Shail’ effect??
I always have this doubt
Why tears are mostly what you write about?
Is it because it’s the best feeling we all emote?
Anyways your verses always get my vote.
Me: Now you comment poetically eh PRG??
Thank you for the vote
The feeling I best emote
Is a smile without a doubt
Yet tears it is I write about.
Reminded me of the song ‘Tum itna kyon muskura rahe ho…..?’
Beautiful little poem from you, Shail. Only hoping this is pure fiction and nothing else.
Regards,
Pal
Me: That IS a beautiful song, isn’t it Pallavi??
Poignant and beautiful. Someone should add more synonyms for “beautiful” with the exact same connotation so that a gal needn’t repeat it again and again!!
A suggestion from the insufferable pedant in me – a preposition “to” between “invite them” and “my cheeks” so that it is grammatically correct. Actually, it looks like a typo from you. Or you can use other words like “surrender them,” “give them,” “furnish them,” “supply them,” (okay, time to stop the boring rant) etc.
Me: Roopa, now now don’t get carried away!
Thanks awfully!! Actually, the line is ‘I invite them to smudge my cheeks’ re-arranged. Poetic license?? 
‘I invite them ‘to’ my cheeks to smudge’ doesn’t convey the same feeling somehow. Hmm… but ‘surrender them’ sounds good. ‘I surrender them my cheeks to smudge’ has a better feel to it. Thanks Roopa. I really appreciate your comment. As you know (did you??) I am only an Economics student! 
They cleanse your soul.
Me: Yes they do Chirag.
Hey, nicely written. Liked it. I liked the allusion you made instead of wording out the word, ‘tears’. A word too tender to be worded, innit?
PS Do you use facebook? If no, then must you not?
Me: Thank you Rhett. Sometimes you can get the result without the use of the word itself. Right??
I am on FB.
Oh!! what a way to say some thing so deep so meaningful in so few words. Hats off.
Me: Balvinder, thanks for that unrestrained praise. You are kind.
You captured an emotion, and its aftermath, that each one of us humans has experienced some time in life, in so few words. Brilliant and so true too!!!!