it’s not just the rocks worlds look desolate today hiding somewhere there the Sun is up but carries no cheer from previous sojourns light is inadequate to liberate minds from clutches of fear wistfully, the Sun comes closer but inspires no trust who knows where power lies? https://scvincent.com/2020/03/26/thursday-photo-prompt-wistful-writephoto/
There is a scene in “We the Living” by Ayn Rand, where lovers are being separated and taken away to Siberia. They know they will not survive, yet the girl says, “Let us look at the moon every day, and find solace that we are looking at the same moon.” They needed a unifying factor … Continue reading I don't know how
people on a sacrosanct mission following propagating the leader’s rules quashing disagreement getting into malleable frames easy to manipulate easy to be directed on preordained paths not knowing whose interest it serves but fired up… nevertheless magic of Opium never ceases to surprise me https://dversepoets.com/2020/03/23/quadrille-100-abracadabra-wheres-my-magic-wand/
I don’t like being scanned under microscopes being isolated in a petri-dish I steel my resolve to dump friends who need permission to go explore the world I embark on a journey they look perplexed, not happy with my pretty shape refuse to shake hands stare with suspicion hide themselves I empathise … Continue reading Isolation
breathing in, breathing out, just moving on thoughts expanding -from rivulets to sea can't remember what I stumbled upon meeting all, parting with some on the way listening to all, but my heartbeats' sound I worshipped the ocean, remained a bay all the songs I sung came just from a word maybe a syllable, or … Continue reading Journey of a song
is it ice catching fire or my imagination? I will taste smoke today to quench never-ending thirst for new challenges is it ice catching fire or my imagination? I will reinvent life to write a new story satisfy the nagging urge of making life worthwhile is it ice catching fire … Continue reading Writer’s Thirst
-biological warfare -a conspiracy to induce mayhem in markets buy low for long-term prosperity -marriages break down claustrophobic with too much togetherness in stressful times authors spoke long back scripts written now for many more blockbusters to come all is well that ends well for certain deep pockets https://onewomansquest.org/2020/03/16/v-j-s-weekly-challenge-88-domino-effect/
a part of the whole a whole divided in parts I deny connectedness by letting smoke envelope my existence, letting it define my incompleteness, creating illusions of wholeness. masks I wear conceal vulnerability while labelling certain parts of my animal self attributing it to another species masks let me live in peace with my … Continue reading Layers
stacking chocolates in the fridge heading to the kitchen to grate cheese for a pasta sauce while the cake baked in the oven is bliss drooling over the scene that would follow on the dining table I check my phone and am deflated instantly It is the diet app sending notifications I can’t … Continue reading Slayers
entitled presumptuous on being God’s gift to the world camels killed, then fowls and pigs flashing monstrosity wounding existence strategic intelligence walks on two legs We own the planet… a teeny weeny virus with no wings or feet holds civilization to ransom confined, constrained living in fear dying ‘coz you’re less important than the … Continue reading Cyclic
