Everyday Writing: Chapter 21

Destiny, the crafty witch

sniffing around lives

scribbling punctuations

not an end, a comma

a fullstop to draw to close

dramatic exclamations

question marked confusions

and sorrow wails its story

quivering within an ellipsis

like dunes of the desert

the ever changing planes 

destiny the whistling wind

charting the ebb and the flow

and when on a whim

stages out the play of a mirage

Everyday Writing- Chapter 20

So much happens

And it scatters away

Hope, conversations,

Time, breath, space

And all of a sudden

Unknowingly you have

Moved from then to now

Without having spoken a word

Everyday writing: Chapter 19

Unfettered

I flew into the horizon

only to bleed

when my head 

hit the concrete sky

Rainsong 4

Maybe you were just a drizzle

of a few minutes lifespan

in the desert of my mind

you lasted a lifetime

oasis, to my parched thought

true respite to my longing call

morn-song of pitter-patter

to set the tune today of my heart

Rainsong 3

The monsoons are here

Of slushy drains

And slithering snails

Earthy smells

And mucky trails.

Wriggling worms

Squished under feet

Eeks and shrieks

At the death giving feat!

With rolled up pants and

Swishing skirt

Let us steal some romance

With some coffee, and flirt?

Rainsong 2

And it rains
And I can hear them like stones pelting on my window
Wanting entry into my life
Knocking and demanding 
The meaning of my actions

And today they evoke the greys
Brooding unsure greys
With their dicey e’s instead of the straight a’s
Slow-torturing me with cold fingers

Rainsong-1

Echoes of laughter in the pitter-patter

Drowsy air laden with dreams

Words take shape on paper

As leaves get glazed in the rain

Every eye-full a shot

Every ear-full a song

Paths seduce to walk on

Every step thumping out

giddy smells of wet earth

From under curls of petals

And blades of grass

Poetry plays peekaboo

Such romance that diffuses in the air

That it sounds of the coming

Along with the rain, some wispy surprise

Rise

"There will be defeat,"
she whispered in my ears,
looking right into my eyes
"You will be thrown headlong
into depths of despair
you had never known."

"And then", she paused
with a flicker of a smile,
"when you nearly lose hope
you will rise..."