Reflection and Isolated - 2 poems

 Reflection - a roseate sonnet, January 20 Koshur Qalam - کآشُر قلم Poetry prompt challenge poem by Dr. Koshy AV

See the lights reflected in the water

That comes from the lamp-posts on the quay

In the night, shimmering and shining

When they switch them off, they are gone; but not forever

See them dancing in the pale moonlight

Memories of bygone times

Fireflies, will o' the-wisps, the glow-worms of life

'Minna minungukal', signs of strength, right?

If the stars go out, they will come out again

If they come out again, they shall shine on

Rose, I see my reflection in the mirror

Of a night, glimmering wetly as if in water

Sin looks sweet and sometimes, breaking and marring your image, deceives

Even a fallen reflection still infers there's something beyond its eaves

Isolated Prompt Koshur Qalam - کآشُر قلم poetry challenge January 21 by Dr. Koshy AV

Isolated

Isolated is as isolated thinks

Isolated is as isolated does

Isosceles is isolated's name

Isocrates, his brother, left him maimed

When the ocean creatures

Crawl on land

They feel alone, like on Mars

in a group, on the sand

But if you can see the night sky

On a cloudy 'day'

Isolation is not the key

That's the way