TOAD TURNED PRINCESS

I feel like a lazy toad

Duttaphrynus melanostictus

Bloated , muddy, green and round

Gulp everything that comes around

Whoosh! shoot out my long tongue

Twirl around helpless insect, tightly wrung

Like Jack in the box does sprung

Now my hunger is hidden or lost

Probably bitten and eaten by Jack frost

Changed my loving consort

And got addicted to love wine

Which since some time I confine

and within heart’s periphery entwine

I need no insects or trinkets

Only observation and some intellect

I ferment my own wine

Have it in sips, on thoughts I dine

My paradise within divine.

A shining palatial shrine.

06/05/22

india

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