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Oped

The untamed fury, rustles of democracy,  slow twirls of dissent.  Linking with RonovanWrites #Weekly#Haiku #poetry Welfare unto all  Rab rakha 🤗 🤗 🤗 

The Barsela

The word megalith transports me to my home town...to the Barsela right next to my house. The heritage monument that I had described in my post... I live near "Barselas"  way back in 2011...  Today the word megalith takes me home: And my pen scribbles : Down in the valley,  in the outskirts of small township,  by the side of gurgling Suket,  the megaliths,  the Barselas,  watch our stories unfolding. The remnants of royalty,  sentinels of time.  Their eyes fixed,  gaze, eternal,  bodies, weathered,  expressions, unwavering  but their spirits breathing.  Slow, strained breath of senescence. Linking with Weekend Writing Prompt   Welfare unto all  Rab rakha 🤗🤗🤗

In the woods

 Far off in the forests,  the terra all densely covered,  the timbers struggling to outgrow  their kith and kin,  the foliage rustling beneath the feet,  the green moss blanketing the fallen woods,  the low rumbling of dark, deep secrets of life,  the moist musk,  the harmony of damp moss,  flowers, rain and wet wilderness,  earthy, and characteristic and the grey mist.  And then,  through the sky-scraping canopy, the light of life plays,   colliding with colors and shadows,  scattering warmth.  Like a million hovering diamonds.  The dispersion, mesmerizing. “The Tyndall effect”.  Science defines it.  We call it sheer magic.  Absolute hope. Linking with 100 word Wednesday Bikurgurl Welfare unto all  Rab rakha 🤗🤗🤗

Your Daily Word Prompt - Perfidious

 Perfidious clouds pass by. A yearning, to be consumed.  Thirsty, parched earth waits Linking with Your Daily Word Prompt Welfare unto all  Rab rakha 🤗 🤗 🤗 

Footprints

Footprints engraved, etched,  on the eternity's soul,  a rushed stolen kiss.  Echoes of our existence.  washed away by the sea waves. Linking with RDP Thursday : Footprint Welfare unto all  Rab rakha 🤗 🤗 🤗 

Flying with faith

 Unfolding of wings,  miraculous, leap of faith, wobbly flight, steadied. Wobbly flight, steadied,  held safe with a  clip of faith, winds will carry us.  Linking with RonovanWrites #Weekly#Haiku #poetry  Welfare unto all  Rab rakha 

#WhatDoYouSee: Canvas of life

A stroke here, blend there.  Some gradients, smudging too!  Life! Flawless painting. Linking with What do you see #47 Welfare unto all  Rab rakha 🤗 🤗 🤗 

Good old summers

 The good old guava tree,  in the backyard.  lush and green.  the fruit, ripe and rich.  The squeaking squirrels  nibbling on an occasional find,  often the envied red-one. The cacophonous camaraderie,  showing off their skills,  riding their bicycles adventurously.  The traditional blue handpump,  the zealous moving of piston,  the gush of cold, clean water.  The rather long power cuts.  The family time gatherings,  on an old rickety folding bed, its coarse cotton tape,  woven in definite pattern,  every season. The night time stories,  and the mesmerizing voice of gran.  The memories of  summers,  buzzing, with love and laughter,  fading slowly.  Linking with 100 word Wednesday 165 Welfare unto all  Rab rakha 🤗 🤗 🤗 

RDP Tuesday - Bully

Howling thunderstorms, bully. But the sky belongs to sun. The tempest, transient. Linking with RDP Tuesday - bully Welfare unto all  Rab rakha 🤗 🤗 🤗 

RDP Monday - Charcoal

T he brazen kiss of charcoal night, the smudged kohl of your eyes,  the smoldering embers in hearth,  the deep blush of dawn, the narrative of magic,  the sultry sigh of twilight. Linking with RDP Monday - Charcoal Welfare unto all  Rab rakha 🤗 🤗 🤗 

RDP Unoccupied

With your thoughts,   unwinding in me,   all day long, drafts of random rhythms,  fill my unoccupied hours, like scribbled verses. Linking with RDP Sunday : Unoccupied Welfare unto all  Rab rakha 🤗 🤗 🤗 

Evolution #threethingschallenge

  And that is how you evolve in love. Raw stone getting shaped, refined and, polished. The fluttering heartbeats being pacified, like soothing rhythm of a sincere auspicious prayer, ever hopeful, all consuming, seeping in nerves. Slowly, fascinatingly, intrinsically. Linking with Three Things Challenge   Welfare unto all  Rab rakha 🤗 🤗 🤗 

To sir, with love

 O dear gardener of minds, with Thy tender love and care, the fragile buds bloom beautifully, like fresh fragrant flowers. The fledglings fly, spreading their wings. Their confident, skilled flights spanning the vast skies. While we pack their meal boxes, you stuff their hearts, with reason and science and yes that dreaded mathematics too. You feed them succulent, scrumptious tit bits of knowledge, helping them grow; helping them reach their potentials; helping them become their true selves. The fledglings of today. Brave birds of tomorrow. All because you chose to be their teachers. Thank you. Insufficient yet somehow sufficing Welfare unto all  Rab rakha 🤗 🤗 🤗 

Ecstasy #haiku

The tidal surges,  gushing ecstasy of love,  till morrow’s sunrise.  Linking with RonovanWrites #Weekly#Haiku #poetry challenge Welfare unto all  Rab rakha 🤗 🤗 🤗