Revamped Emotions

Day 21- OctPoWriMo 2017 (Prompt Nothing Remains the Same---an  abecedarian)

Mykonos Man - Photo by Judy McDole (c)

As fifty seasons touch grey feathers

Beckons the heart, into the lost treasures

Craving to capture some lost moments

Dancing to the tune, of changing seasons.

Every day brings a new change

Forgetting too many things within our range

Gearing to remember the forgotten past

How time takes a leap and moves fast.

In my own world, I build my castle

Joining forces with my mind and soul, I jostle

Keeping track of all those missing memories

Lovingly turning, pages of old albums and sepia-shaded diaries.

Moving with restless fingers, touching pieces here and there

Noting down some sweet reminders, to remember

Opening the pages of fostered affections

Pilferage the fragrance of youthful passions.

Quietly gazes, a memory of lost love within those soft pages

Reminding that nothing remains the same and everything changes

Shadows of experiences  glimpse through the fold of wrinkles

Trust me, it is not easy to sustain the eroding jungles

Ushering a transformation within

Very adamant,  to handle the changing skin

We belong to the nostalgic clan

X-rayed memories do come in hand

Yearning for a little bit of sunshine in strife

Zooming with zest into the sunset of life 

The Longings

Day-20 OctPoWriMo-2017 (Prompt Desires and Remembering)

                                                        Image by V CT at PublicDomainImages

My universe

And your universe 

Couldn't meet

The barriers were too strong

How can we forget what was stored

In those soft moments of yore

A sudden ache from nowhere

Brought forth by a musical note

Your soft eyes and those layers of smoked icicles

The tenderness never left

It still visit and crushes the depth of the soul

Will there be another chance

To feel the same....

Foxy Innings

Day-19 OctPoWriMo-2017 (Prompt- Fox or foxy...florette)

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Heard some scraping sounds on the porch
Irritating noise loud and grouch 
Wondered who might be in distress
The night was silent and dark, but I tried to watch.

There; a ruckus in the hen coop
Somebody trying to play hoop
Aha! two foxy eyes stared back 
As I tried to pitch in, it bounced through the loop.

Crowded Loneliness

Day 18 OctPoWriMo-2017 (Prompt-Everyone Went on Eating)

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Dancing shadows

 reveal shallow crowd-

Pain weeps insensibly

in hooded loneliness.

You talk

They  fake

You implore

They ignore

You are alone

They are on a song

 And then, life dances in misery

till the last breath drips slowly.

Happy Days

Day-17 OctPoWriMo-2017 ( Prompt-And The Dragon Chose..a short story poem in 50 words )

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It was a fairy tale

A fairy tale it was

When they met

Dancing in the rain

Tip tap tip tap

Went the sound of their feet

The little chipmunks

Starring and splashing

Playing and enticing

They softly whispered

In each other’s ears

Friend, let’s play

Today is a holiday.

She Walks Tall Among the Wolves

Day-16 OctPoWriMo-2017 (Prompt-Losing your Fears and Tears )

She was trapped in her own shadows

The doors closed on her when she tried to open the windows

The stench surrounding that place was a hell of distress

The evenings traumatized her living days

She did everything in her power to break the shackles

How can she fight the demons sheltered in her homestead?

Their power harnessed in their eyes and hands

The power of  domination and muscled strengths

Years went by and there was no hope to fight the evil

The soul was dead and so was the power of resilience.

The gray shadows grew with changing seasons.


How long can one lay in that stained existence?

There must be something one is born to fight and sustain

One day she understood her worth

She was the universal truth

A powerful force born on this earth

She was  packed with endowed gifts

Patience, compassion, love, and faith were her companions

These were the weapons to fight the demons

And how she fought back!

A phoenix  was out of the ashes

She walked tall leaving her footprints

On the sands of time for the future generations.

Caught in a web of hatred

Day-15 OctPoWriMo-2017 (Prompt-Fighting the Urge to Vomit )

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When I open the newspaper in the morning

I kind of get nausea while reading

The mayhem across the heartless world, where bloodthirsty hounds go killing

Without batting an eyelid, they fire at the innocents and leave them bleeding.

Where terror is disguised and misguided

The mind is wrapped and destroyed

Where greed takes the upper hand

No deadline for this madness to end

There are thousands who go hungry

Getting bombed and left to wander helplessly

Their stained bodies on canvas for display.

I am also a culprit, a self-centered soul

Living happily in my cozy world 

 I can only get angry and feel sorry.

Movements and Words

Day 14 OctPoWriMo-2017 (Prompt-Movement and Words )

Many times

On the 

Verge of

Eternal insanity

Mind play games

Engaging in a spherical

Nuclei of emotions

Through a swirl of

Stumped silence.

Ancient images 

Nonchalantly gaze in the

Dynamic sepia shades.

Wanderlust resisted

Over a period of time

Reignites motions 

Drumming in, love for life

Sweet surrender follows.

They called her "The Misfit"

Day 13 OctPoWriMo -2017 (Prompt- Art In The Wayward Mind )

A woman in pants

With a cigar in her hands

A weird looking gaze

With a short mustache

And her crooked body

Became a topic to chase.

Her head covered with feathers

She sneered at the tongue waggers

She crossed every bridge with pride

Living on her own terms

She let the world eat a humble pie

When she attained fame far and wide.

A painter with a substance she was

Who stuck to her roots

In awe of her feisty halo

The one and only one Frida Kahlo.

Once I came across the prompt I started to wonder what to write. I don't want to put myself there as I am still working my way. This is one woman who inspires me the most. How she made her creative talent to rise above her physical imperfection. Hope we inherit atleast ten percent of her courage to fight against the odds.

Chasing Images

 Day-12 OctPoWriMo-2017  (Prompt-Imagination Stands in the Road)

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Hiding among the  clouds, a ray of sunshine tempts
To write poetic praises, weaving flowery verses.
A line of  a musical note chases away the blues
To let imagination unearth the trapped muse.

Imagination- 
Leaps through mountains and valleys 
Breathes beauty in the sun, moon, and the stars
Finds muse in the fragrant flowers, meadows, and seasons.

It  caresses nature, with magical odes
Creating a panorama, with epic words.

Dancing in brokenness

Day 11-OctPoWriMo-2017 (Prompt- Move Your Body Move your Words )

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And,

 the words flow

in a rhythm of its own

when the broken heart swings

with your memories.

Sighing softly 

I merge with you

in the dreamy world 

to a perfectly synchronized

pagan dance.

And, 

we move

in an aching rhapsody

to a passionately roaring

crescendo.

Determination

Day 10 OctPoWriMo-2017  (Prompt-Power and Control )

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Power, a weapon
It kills
It dominates
It empowers
It controls
It ignites freedom.

Power, a word
Unites people
Erase borders
Build bridges
Pen paens
Touch hearts.

Power, a beacon
Empowers genders
Equalize ambitions
Fulfill dreams
Enhance kindness
Harmonize nations.

Fumed Silence

Day 9 OctPoWriMo-2017  (Prompt-Tapping into your Creative Mind)

Heart bleeds unknowingly.

Thirsty ashes carry smoking emotions.

Emotions  smoking carry ashes thirsty

Unknowingly, bleeds heart.

Some roads lead to happiness

Day-8 OctPoWriMo-2017 ( Prompt-What do you know and How do you know it )

How could I know

I would be musing along

On a path less taken

Weaving words

With life experiences.


Making dreams come true

Creating new avenues

Passing through crisis

Standing tall among wolves

Fighting battles 

Dealing with unknown woes

A journey full of rough ends

It was destined to be so.


At least by default

Life has been kind

With all its harshness

It did bring a balance

To sooth the soul

With little gifts

In the form of

Love, peace, and hope.

Lost Count (A Haiku)

Day-7 OctPoWriMo-2017 (Prompt- And Then I Went Too Far )



The prompt "And then I went too far " left me tongue-tied. Didn't know what to write. There are so many things we do in the heat of the moment that it is difficult to keep a count of the people one has hurt. I could manage a haiku to express myself.

The image is taken from google.

Tasted blue lined tongue:

The pools reflected seasons

heart burnt with regret.

Displacement

Day-6 OctPoWriMo-2017 (Prompt- While I Was Pacing The Floor )

Trying hard
                    to keep up the pace

Between 
             the  crowded space

Wondering
                  how to escape

From the clutches 
                             of the rat race.


Breathing in the arms of nature

Moments freeze and conjure
   
Those little moments

Juxtaposed in transitions.
    

In the hope 
                  of  finding freedom

In the world
                   of unplaced wisdom

Through the layers 
                                of  fear and beauty

Life seeks
               some peace in humanity.

(I have used an uneven structure for the first and last stanza to highlight the unbalanced environment we live in. The middle stanza accentuates the fact that nature keeps us grounded.)

A Ray of Hope

Day 5 OctPoWriMo-2017 (Prompt-Finally I Understand )

Finally, 

I understand

why it is difficult

to erase the past.

***

Time,

brings forth 

falling and aching,

remnants of a scarred life.

***

Between, 

the spaces

of life and death,

there is the grounded hope.

***

Believing, 

in timeframe

finds dreams weigh

in the fist of today.

***

Triumph,

   not  always 

when the truth lies,

in the lines of the palms.

*****

A whorl of colours

Day-4 OctPoWriMo 2017 (Prompt-Between The Clouds And The Water )

Between the clouds and the water
Lies the world of a dreamer.
Where dreams walk on the waves
Where poetry hides in its shades.

In the light of a day
In the midst of a night
Moves the muse of her thoughts
Serenading a sunrise and a sunset.

Sometimes poetry hides
On the wings of hope and laughter.
Sometimes poetry sings
In the waning of seasons.

There are many shades
Colourfully adorned
Suffixed and prefixed
In the dreamer's world


Where poetry hides in its shades
Where dreams walk on the waves
Lies the world of a dreamer
Between the clouds and the water.

Cherita

Day 3 OctPoWriMo-2017 (Prompt-Taste of Metal)

The taste of metal still bemoans on the carved milky valves.

A tightening string created a hollow ring

Once shaped as a full moon reduced to a shapeless being.

The scars shadowed
What was once adored

A lifeless mass of food.

Rusted Thoughts

Day-2 OctPoWriMo-2017- (Prompt-We Write Because We Must )

Why do I write?

Moreover,

Why poetry?

And  the answer

Lies in the restless void.

Shifting from conscious

To an unconscious state,

The mind play games

When the dark hours

Envelope the memories

Laying dormant for eons.

Bursting to expose

In the form of thoughts

They find solace

On the parchment of words.

A catharsis, 

To find peace

To cure the heart of wild deeds

A restless journey ends

When the soul gets inked.