Dragons

I’m a lone warrior but there’s no enemy on the battlefield   critical voices put-me-downs Hmmm..s and frowns I heard from childhood are the dragons I fight every day, every  hour   life on the defensive while attackers fled ages ago leaving scars on my psyche https://dversepoets.com/2019/06/03/quadrille-81-here-there-be-poem-dragons/

Nocturnal Dialogues

setting sun bids goodbye shooting out orange flames -spiritual colors   sky blushes purple before the moon highlights all that was quiet so far   star-spangled ache for a beloved – who passes through but never stays   sun shines somewhere else swallows flames to say – look here I warm more than hearts https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2019/05/30/reenas-exploration-challenge-89/

Summers

Schools close for a month or two in summer, due to the intense tropical heat here. I wonder how heat was not a deterrent from going out needlessly, at that age. Summer meant visiting grandparents, ice lollies, mangoes, melons and silly games. My grandparents used to have charpoys (picture given below) in the house. We … Continue reading Summers

Pulled apart

sunflowers look askance at gray clouds dotting the sky “Did we offend you?” “the Sun needs a nap” they said,” we are just his guards” floral necks drooped low eternal bonds lost in mercurial dips and external intervention https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2019/06/01/weekend-writing-prompt-108-mercurial/

Life Skills

pasting a smileperforming to entertain -then taking a fall   grace got embedded with all gaming parts moving in me – on skateboards   balance came easy vicissitudes of life couldn’t throw me out https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2019/05/29/heeding-haiku-with-chevrefeuille-may-28th-2019-skateboarding/