Summers

intensity of air changing from life-giving warmth to scalding heat signifies stratospheric rumblings   sunrays battling clouds to get beneath your skin and mine life is not easy for anyone anywhere summers bring it out in the open   Weekly Tanka #Prompt #Poetry Challenge 103

Change in destinations

those figures etched on canvas of life throbbing with joy and expectation artists designed characters’ strife to paint colors of imagination   it appeared to be a summation coming together of values and dreams reaching a final culmination careful selection before mixing streams   oceanic spaces in hibernation moved suddenly to change destinations     … Continue reading Change in destinations

Unmatched

the baby wailed to say cheers to life on birth in a seemingly alien world.   The mother smiled to welcome and integrate him inextricably in her life   The father celebrated his new role with a vague idea of what will follow.   birds fly off the nest leaving behind sighs they started a … Continue reading Unmatched

Incomplete

contrasting textures different physical states complete each other in peaceful coexistence inspiring unusual love stories   horizons fuel inadequacy of imagination fire dreams a wishful thought of incomplete existence   Thursday Photo Prompt and Tuesday Poetics at dVerse

Night and day, always at play

when I hide, you come out to play watch changing colors of the clay   the world is what we make of it plunged in darkness, or cheerfully lit   power, love and the sky we share though never seen together there   length of fleeting shadows on the soil to measure revolving, rotating turmoil … Continue reading Night and day, always at play

Cycles

cycle of karma espoused by many understood by none startings and endings being fuzzy lines   cycle of wealth flashes glimpses to many changes hands with few but always goes back to the same place   cycle of life imprint on consciousness fading into unseen oblivions   Quadrille #59