Free Image Pixabay Random phone calls to talk about the rainor the cat,the food that I never had,or all the mundane thingslife is made of.Good morning messagesthat I never open,forwards I care no more for,or an emoticon to tell methey exist.Old trees, said a friend,set copious blossomsin their final years.
BOXES
The stack of boxes you’ve piled over years, the dynamics of those 2D measurements apt to crush the tunnel on your back. Put down that mountain. Most of it doesn’t even matter. It is a hundred years old. Why should you carry the burden of its senility? Nonchalance must rule over eighty or even sixty. …
Between Messing Up & Not
Between messing up and notAnd falling down, and liftingmyself up each dayI efface a portion of the toniccalled grit, that we gulped as kids.Cliffs on a coast eroded by the seashreds of sandpaperthat's me.I don't mind being carried awayby waves or wind,eaten away by their gentleness.It's always less fearfulthan the dregs of courage, they claimlie …
Things Fall Apart
(With apologies to Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart) The lamp has lived its life It no longer holds up The flickering, long hours of darkness unplanned fearsome Like the dusty, round-faced clock before it, and the three-legged tandoor much earlier, rusted in places A palette of yellow pages from years of being stifled …
Dharma Artha Kama Moksha by Seethalakshmi (Blogchatter eBook Carnival)
The Blogchatter eBook Carnival was launched on 13 June this year. My first eBook Unlocked- Historical Tales in Verse was released in 2020 on the same platform and will always remain a memorable part of my writing journey. This year, I am a carnival volunteer and am just through with the first few books from …
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Please Read the Letter- WEP June 2022
It's the year of Music Challenges at WEP, and for the month of June the prompt is based on Please Read the Letter by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - a break up song and a moving plea for understanding at the termination of a relationship. I haven't ventured too far, talking about walking away in the form of a poem. …
A Hundred Quills 