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अजीब होते हैं सपने
समाने को समा जाएँ आशियाँ
हाथों की चाँद लकीरों में
फिसलें तो निकल जाएँ
अंजुली से पानी की तरह

करीब होते हैं अपने
तो लगता है शबनम का क़तरा
किसी दरिया की तरह
गर रूठ जाएँ तो सागर
लगे जैसे मृगतृष्णा

In response to: Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 109

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #109- Prompt this week

NOSTALGIA

Can someone bring back
Carefree childhood
Caring and loving parents, siblings
Sweet lingering memories of the time spent with
Spouse, children, relatives, and friends
Lovely memories of
Daughter and son’s marriage
Arrival of granddaughter

Unforgettable time spent in
Traveling so many places,
Meeting with so many people

Swimming through the memory lane
cherishing, savoring, relishing all
As if it all happened yesterday
How time flies by
Leaving behind
NOSTALGIA

~ Indira

Inspired by Reena’s Exploration Challenge #109

hasty, busy world
slowing down to remember
simpler times in youth

water is a world
that heat can evaporate
and make acid rain

for Reena’s Exploration Challenge

“For I have known them all already, known them all:

To the countless sharing the space,

On this beautiful planet,

Where all co-exist,

I am a nameless face,

I am one among the crowd,

I am nothing extraordinary,

For the ones that know me,

I am a part of the world where they also thrive,

To some my name,

Would bring, cheer,

To a few, anger,

Yet others, indifference,

“For I have known them all already, known them all:

A part of me exists in all,

A part of them exists in me,

If we look at each other’s positives,

As our own,

We would wholeheartedly appreciate,

Rather than compare and snide,

If we look at each other’s negatives ,

As our own,

We would willingly forgive,

Rather than be mean,

It’s those I know,

I go for love, care and support,

Sometimes they deliver, sometimes they backstab,

For they…

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #108

You can choose any one line , and use it as the first line for your piece.

“For I have known them all already, known them all:

Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons;

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”

Source: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot

~NONE OF THEM~

“For I have known them all already,

known them all”

I have howled at the moon,

I have reached for the stars

I have basked in the sun

But when all is said and done

there is really only one.

“For I have known them all already,

known them all”

and known none of them,

none of them all.

©J.E.Goldie October 15 2019

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
comestolifea flower’s worst nightmare
bloomed majestic and hand-picked by the gardener as a semblance of exquisite beauty
its heart desired to end up in a vase
brighten up an alley, a room, or somewhere be fondly placed
maybe even become a reason to mend a fight or augment a child’s smile
settle for a broach on his coat or a decor in her hair
Alas! dreams of being showered on happy occasions withered away
with its newfound fate.
Chosen for a visit to the cemetery
and left behind with the dead, down in the darkness of reality.

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In response to Christine’s Writing Prompt https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/130149259/posts/11763

Also, in response to Reena’s Exploration Challenge
https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/reenas-exploration-challenge-108/