Terpsichore by Akshaya Pawaskar

When the muse whispers
In your ear,
When she plays her lyre
Only for you,
When she pulls you out
of your inertia, 
look how you dance
Unabashed.
May her music accompany
you into
the silent night.
May her beats keep 
you moving
even in the middle of blight
May your limbs 
never be wary, performing
this dance of life.
AKSHAYA PAWASKAR is a doctor-poet hailing from Goa, India Her poems have been published in Tipton Poetry Journal, Shards,The Blue Nib, North of Oxford, Indian Rumination, Rock and Sling, among many others. She won the Craven Arts Council ekphrastic poetry competition in 2020 and was placed second in The Blue Nib chapbook contest in 2018. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, The falling in and the falling out (alien Buddha press,2021) and Cocktail of life (bookLeaf publishing, 2022).
Photo by Goashape on Unsplash
to the dancers
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