Dumbfounded beauty But Unwelcoming silence Makes me skeptical Absence of a smiling face Adds to the unearthliness What lies behind the closed door
Category Archives: short poem
Dumbfounded Beauty- What do you see # 197- July 31, 2023
Mute Spectator- Reena’s Xploration Challenge #266
Mute Spectator
I thought
Time is the pilot
To lead me in journey of my life
It would teach me the skills
To forget the pain
To face the storms
To keep balance in all difficult situations
But in the end
I found
Time is
Just a mute spectator
Of your arrival
Your journey
And your departure
It neither stops you
Nor forces you
You learn by yourself
The art of living
It does not fly by
It just stands still
Allowing you
To be the pilot of your life
Learn to keep the balance
To sail through storms
Learn by own mistakes
Be responsible for your decisions
And bear
The consequences
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #112- Pause/ ठहराव
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #112
WRITING PROMPT 112
This week you can choose one or more from a set of 10 words/phrases, to kick start your thought process. Let us see where the journey takes you. The comments often offer different perspectives and start another thread of creativity. Find time to read those and interact with other writers.
Here are the options….
- pockets of stillness
- question your maps
- cynical assertions
- lost alphabet
- was that really me?
- crumbling thoughts
- undulating patterns
- free-flowing bonds
- pregnant pause
- potential of emptiness
Pockets of Stillness
जिंदगी दौड़ रही
बेरोक बेलगाम सी
कभी कभी इसमें
विश्राम होना चाहिए
जिंदगी कटी यहाँ
जिंदगी कटी यहाँ
वहां घूम घूम के
अब तो कोई
अब तो कोई
पड़ाव होना चाहिए
बदला ना खुद को कभी
बदला ना खुद को कभी
अपनी ही जिद में जिए
अब तो व्यवहार में
अब तो व्यवहार में
बदलाव होना चाहिए
बचपन में खेले खूब
जवानी में भटक लिए
बुढ़ापे में थोड़ा
बुढ़ापे में थोड़ा
ठहराव होना चाहिए
~Indira
It is so much more rewarding to understand than to feel right, even if that means changing your mind about a subject, an ideology, a person and even yourself. — Maria Popova
Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 94, “Beliefs & Strange,” #SynonymsOnly
unreasonable
unscientific faiths control
our behavior
however illogical
we are slaves of traditions
BLUE: The Color Of Longing
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 41
We are dabbling with Erasure Poetry this week – call it White Out or Black Out as you please.
Erasure is a form of found poetry or found object art created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and framing the result on the page as a poem.[1] The results can be allowed to stand in situ or they can be arranged into lines and/or stanzas.
BLUE: The Color Of Longing
The world is blue at its edges
and in its depths
blue that gets lost
never travels the
whole distance
from the sun to us
blue that got lost
blue that does not reach us
gives color to the colorless water
purer the water
the deeper the blue
at the horizon
the blue land
seems to be
dissolving in the blue sky
the blue
at the farthest
reaches the places
where you see for miles
deeper
dreamier
melancholy blue
the blue
color of distance
the blue
which does not touch us
does not travel the whole distance
is the beauty of the world
so much of which is
in the color blue.
blue
at the far edge
of
what can be seen
the color of the horizon
of remote mountain ranges
of anything
far away
color of emotion
the color of
solitude and desire
the color
where you can never go
for
the blue is not
at the horizon
but in the atmospheric distance
between you and the mountains
the color of
longings
for the distance
you never arrive in,
For the blue world
~Indira
#Weekly Tanka Prompt #Poetry Challenge – Week 95 – Landscape & Homes
#Weekly Tanka Prompt #Poetry Challenge – Week 95 – Landscape & Homes
Etheree Poetry – Syllabic Pattern: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10, Rhyme: None
My
home was
surrounded
by trees and ponds
what a heavenly
landscape it provided
Now unscrupulous tree cutting
and unscrupulous use of plastics
Alas! Only what I see around
The huge dump of plastics or Plasticscape
~Indira
Poem For Halloween
A Month of Mini Writing Challenges 2017- day 30
Write a spooky poem in 13 lines for Halloween.
‘Your neighbor is spooky’
warned my friend
but I never paid a heed
how can I believe it until I see her
performing a spooky deed
then one day when she cut her hand
and spilled not a drop of blood
I found it terrifying indeed
but she danced and sang swirling her head
in one hand at full speed
so blood-curdling was the sight
I thought of taking a flight
and to the nearest exit, I hurried
~Indira
Hidden- The Daily Post
hidden
in a corner of your mind
unfulfilled desires
lie dormant
waiting for a weak moment
to conquer you
you run away from them
they chase you
you fight them
they empower you
you suppress them
they become an obsession
if they are goal oriented
they take you to the
destination
if they are only lust greed
they will take you to the
hell
The Daily Post- Fight
THEDAILYPOSTMar 18, 2016
Is all about
To know
The right time to fight
And the right time
To take a flight
Inevitable
DAILY PROMPT
Inevitable
Inevitable is
Failing and falling
Inevitable is
Life and death
Inevitable is
Faults and failures
Inevitable is
Disappointment
But never give up
Faith, courage and
Dedication
As giving up is a sin
And an obstacle
In your path to win
~Indira
Courageous cat( Google Images)
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