Showing posts with label metaphor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label metaphor. Show all posts

Sunday, March 12, 2023

Synergy

Thanks to Sunday muse for this amazing visual prompt!  




A stitch in time

Saves nine

Then

Three stitches should be fine

To claim what is mine.

Us.

 

2 Equal halves

From different hemispheres

A tectonic shift

Perpetrated by a single thread

A simple yes.

 

An apple a day

The adam and eve way

Keeps us healthy and gay.

 

The harder I tug

Stronger the hug

The prickly institution

needles us now and then

A needed constitution

It keeps us grounded and in zen.

 

 

 


Friday, February 10, 2023

Kiwi caipiroska










Golden hands
Can pour no wrong.
With a pinch of salt
We forget all their faults
I sip my kiwi caipiroska
Willing to take me back in time
To places which only existed in my mind
Where the golden sun
Didn’t hate the silver moon
Every day was a noon
Akin to a silver spoon.
Next round please
This time add pepper and honey
Maybe a few notes of mahogany
I’m gonna scream a symphony
A woman’s baritone
A man’s lullaby
World shouldn’t make sense
Should words?
Just get me the whole pitcher.

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

As the crow flies









Clandestine creeping in
Of relevant restlessness
Growing apathy
Winged venom
Acidic antidotes
Sure seeping in
Of a crow’s courage
Just a tremulous throw away.
So bark away
I’m not an orphaned stray
I will stamp my say
For all those who stay
On a half moon day.

Saturday, June 12, 2021

Wordsmith




 

The world spinning

I don’t see

When I am in the zone.

Words are all I have

To weave art

To create

 A quick restart.

Maybe it is out of fashion

To get your hands dirty

With all the ink

and  mental stink.  

Fragility is art

I cup the words with my

Tired hands

And when it stands

On its own merit

I show it off like simba.

Sometimes I just let it dry out

And adorn my wall.

Other time I just mush it

Into senselessness

And devour the meaningless of it all! 


For the awesome picture prompt by Sunday muse  

and sunday pantry in Poets and Storyteller's United

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Cuckoo

 





Firmly rooted at the same spot

For Two decades and a half,

I was jealous of the monkey a lot.

Jumping between me and her

He wreaked havoc in my heart.

I yearned for bold adventure

Till one day he snapped me in half.

 



Then I began developing slow respect

For this lovely bird,

Who was content to perch on me

He enjoyed my silence &

I his comforting baritone.

He decided to call me home

And nested in my bosom.

 

We would watch double rainbows

And hilarious humans

With equal interest.

 

It was magical while it lasted

But he was a bird and I a tree,

One day I had to set him free

To migrate to new places

Will he come back?

And when he does

Do I want him back?

 

Soon I’ll be old

And I live in India

They will tie ropes on me

And start calling me goddess

And worship my bareness

Call me wise &

Never let me rise.

 

Or worse

They will forget me

And the clouds will stop cooperating

They will cut me with their axes

And make me into a table

Or whatever the hell they want.

Oh god I hope not!

 

We are what we believe

And I believe I hear in my green ears

The handsome music of tomorrow ~