One poem by Saloni Kaul

Price of Beauty

Atop the hill old trees gaunt in a clump

All stand on guard eternal like a sage, 

On the alert like batsman suave protects his stump 

Staying on is life though runs get him to the front page.

Strewn generously along the pathways wild

Are all the tempting delectations that us all intrigue,

Whilst thought and wisdom of the highest league

Lures like dramatically layered mosaic well-tiled.

How like the wild imagination does

This tall top line to realms beyond extend !

Entirely flat disregarded by the general buzz ,

Could all this something strenuously strange portend ?

Immersed in meditation, sagelike old trees stay on duty

And the wayward beholder pays the price of beauty.   

SALONI KAUL, author and poet, was first published at the age of ten and has been in print since. As critic and columnist Saloni has enjoyed forty years of being published. Saloni Kaul's first volume, a fifty poem collection was published in the USA in 2009. Subsequent volumes include Universal One and Essentials All. Most recent Saloni Kaul poetic production has been published in Tipton Poetry Journal, Misty Mountain Review, Inwood Indiana, Mad Swirl , FIVE Poetry, The Voices Project, The Penwood Review, Mantid Magazine, Haikuniverse, Blue Pepper, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Cabildo Quarterly, AJI Magazine, Scarlet Leaf Review, River Poets Journal, Belle Rêve Literary Journal ,Taj Mahal Review, Verbal Art, Poetry Pacific, Ink Sweat And Tears and Military Experience And The Arts (As You Were : The Military Review) . Upcoming publication acceptances include Blueline, The Penwood Review, Cabildo Quarterly , Scarlet Leaf Review and Indiana Voice Journal .