#poetrychallenge

Poem: A Desire…

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Today I’ve penned down something in my native language- Hindi. These are actually afterthoughts of reading a Hindi poem.  I’ve given the English translation below my original poem.   इक ख़्वाहिश   ठंडी हवा के झोंके जब पेड़ों को सरसराहें यूँ लगे तुम्हारी उँगलियाँ मेरे गालों को सहलाएँ फर्क सिर्फ इतना है कि इक हक़ीक़त … Read more

Poem: Amazed at the “WHY” Maze

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This is my second take on the prompt given by dVerse. The prompt was so intriguing that I couldn’t resist sharing all the questions that keep bothering me from time to time. Bjorn hosted the dVerse on Tuesday.  He was inspired by the “ he book of Questions” by Pablo Neruda, to give us a prompt to write poems … Read more

Poem: A Reflective Trail

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Bjorn is hosting the dVerse today.  He was inspired by the “ he book of Questions” by Pablo Neruda, to give us a prompt to write poems consisting only of questions. We should leave the answer to the reader. We can write a poem consisting of a single question or many. We can fill our questions … Read more

Poem: I forgot to live

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  Traversing the deserted memory lane treasuring glimpses of my childhood reminiscing shades of myself a sudden realization shuddered me I forgot to live     An immature amenable child I followed the path led by adults teenage soon followed glistening with all its colors however… convoluted adolescence succumbed to anxiety and dominance of peers … Read more

Poem: A Child’s Musings

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Recently, a very disgraceful and heinous crime has been committed in my vicinity wherein a young seven-year-old boy was brutally murdered inside school premises. The incident has sent shock waves across the country. Since, I have two kids of the same age, I have been quite disturbed and somehow I am just not able to … Read more

Haiku: Cake

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Haiku Horizons has given the prompt “cake” for week#184. What a timely prompt! I couldn’t have asked for a more relevant one as we just celebrated the tenth birthday of my son this week. Here’s to cake:    choco truffle cake glorifies the occasion as my boy turns ten      

Poem: Tears

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the tears in her eyes revealed it all despite her efforts at detaining them inside dreading someone’s fall with their fall but the feelings in her heart the emotions that wrought drove the moist pearls to the edge of eyeballs the dust of truth trapped in a web of lies a ray of sunlight struggling … Read more