Emotional Intelligence

breathing is unrhythmic, heavy I notice my clenched fists Am I feeling helpless now? rage seething within.   This can also be termed as 'silhouette poetry', where a scenario/mental state is described without actually naming it.     Saturday Mix- Lucky Dip, 18 November, 2017

Reborn

I am born again every moment of life seasons come and go     Word prompt With Earth’s first Clay They did the Last Man’s knead, And then of the Last Harvest sow’d the Seed: Yea, the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read. © Omar Khayyam (Tr. FitzGerald) … Continue reading Reborn

Wheels

Why are giant clocks placed on the top of towering structures? I see time overseeing us, laughing silently as it watches us scramble through life trying to manage it, and yet, be governed by the movement of its hands. eternity so often misconstrued as finite We impose the finite nature of our lives on time, … Continue reading Wheels

Fukuroo–Who? Who? Who? dVerse Haibun Monday

The owl has always intrigued me. It appears to be the wise one overseeing the world with its unflinching gaze and round eyes. Indian culture does not acknowledge the bird as wise. We do not like the solitary, nocturnal creature and its rare, strange cry is seen as a harbinger of death. ‘Ullu’ (Hindi word … Continue reading Fukuroo–Who? Who? Who? dVerse Haibun Monday