Fame, wealth power for justice love, intellect, creativity potency of the combination awe-inspiring, enviable genuine admiration enriching, adorning life Palace of my dreams dissolves in thin air as I wake up to another morning in the real world How life changes In a wink! (44 words) Quadrille #68
Remembrance hangs on the wall behind a garland In a dusty frame is a fond memory that lives only in my mind and will die with me is the honor I bestow on a sentiment now past its sell-by date Remembrance something that stirs me enough to transform the core and spurs me on to … Continue reading Renewal
Prompt In the immensity of consciousness, a light appears — a tiny point which moves rapidly and traces shapes, thoughts, and feelings, like a pen writing on paper. And the ink which leaves a trace is memory. You are that tiny point and by your movement the world is ever re-created. Sri Nisargadatta, I Am … Continue reading Eternal Source
I changed the day I realized - people ensnared in a web are not struggling to come out but rule from within - people caught in whirlpools are not struggling to come out but pull others in - power intoxicates suspends fair judgement but creates hollows within - people who bat for you first dissolve … Continue reading I changed
Once upon a thought energy reverberated rocked my whole being Once upon a falsehood promises flashed hurt like a knife in the back Once upon a dilemma I felt broken in pieces not fitting together Once upon a truth I stood defeated feeling whole once again Poetics
I don’t need to be here where there is no trust hopes, dreams ignored I don’t need to be here I don’t need to be there where I’ve outlived utility discarded like trash I don’t need to be there Here to there- a tough journey to build a life of my own to find meaning … Continue reading Here to there
I spoke, but you did not listen Why this silent altercation? I’m not guilty of offending you Why the fazed agitation? You did not plant flying dreams in me Why this jittery murmuration? I’d rather not mention my aspirations lest it sparks - a conflagration? You never really belonged to me why do I fear … Continue reading In Denial (Translated from Hindi)
Milestones- carry burdens irony of being marked for being unmoved by unheard stories of characters on unknown journeys Maps - untraversed fields to plant hopes in travellers bear untold agony of seeing some dashed mute spectators - to marked destinies Thursday Photo Prompt : Way-stone #writephoto
day by day breath by breath I change with daily accretions shedding burdens each experience is shedding skin to grow a new one more resistant more tolerant looking back I don’t recognise the person that was me nor what I have become life happened somewhere in between Poetics at dVerse
savoir faire helped me survive hidden agendas of information staying unbiased, but on constant vigil blunts attempts of targeted indoctrination presentation is all that matters grains of truth covered with lies so daring personal stories, but professionally written storytelling makes a mockery of sharing #Weekly Tanka Prompt #Poetry Challenge -Week 118
