Tough weakeners

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Bookstains Poetry Challenge, Cherished, Chocolates, Clouds, Cool breezes, Echostains, Eyelashes, Favorite things, I love!, List, Music, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop, Poetry, Poetry Potluck Week 38, Salted caramel hot chocolate, Sound of music, Too hard to resist, Treasures, Tune, What I can die for, What I like, What I live for, Writing

Image credits: "My Favorite Things" by ashesoffire00, and "Favorite Things" by phoenix_karenee @ DeviantArt... Superimposition of the images and the cloud effect was later done by yours truly...

White butter clouds
hanging oh so playfully
From silver chords
wound ’round sky’s own old pulley
Azure heavens
crisp and pure as can be
Kissed and nudged
by weightless zephyrs on sea

Caramel swirls
of a sweet salted delight
Set off alarms,
sizzle and make me feel light
Milk chocolate layers
that melt on my tongue
From moody
dungeons back now I have sprung

Voice so rich
like deep bass amidst clamor
Eyes that pierce
right through my heart’s hard armor
Dense shadows
of lashes dark, curled and long
And trembling
transparent like some frail song

If I can do
I sure will do
All that’s in my power…
To blow a few bubbles and indulge myself
In this warm sinful shower…

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**I had originally written this poem a couple of weeks back, but had never gotten around to posting it… But today, I happened to see Lynda’s (aka Echostains) fantastic Poetry Challenge @ Bookstains, and I simply HAD to post it in response to the challenge (with a lil bit of editing so as to fit the challenge theme/criteria)… Gosh!! This was a whole lot of fun!!! Check out the challenge yourself, and play along… I bet you’ll LOVE it!! Oh… and try “singing” this poem to the tune of “These are a few of my favorite things” from Sound Of Music … :D**

***And what better place to put up this poem than One Shot Wednesday (week 44)! Maaaannn…. I REALLY missed y’all, my favorite One-Shot-Stars! Well well… now I am back… and all set to read too!! 🙂 See y’all soooon!!***

****And I am now adding this to Poetry Potluck (week 38) as well since I could not come up with anything more suited for the theme (Inspired by a song) 🙂 ****

Square feet of roofing

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American-Gothic, Dull life, Echostains, Echostains Poetry Challenge, He said She said, Life, Living, Opposites, Optimism, Palatial house, Pessimism, Thursday Poets Rally, TPR Week 39

Image Credits: Lynda@Echostains

He: Change is a good thing
when it is for the better
She: What use is this quiet
if it becomes another fetter

He: Our boring lives will now
take on a brand new color
She: If blue turns to grey,
things can only get duller

He: Wind plays many tricks
on creaky wooden stairways
She: There’s more than just wind
in the deceptive empty hallways

He: For my safety, I have
a pitchfork turned candle holder
She: But it’s always safe
to look behind your shoulder

He: It is now all ours;
this giant old house
She: But here’s known to live
the ghost of a vicious mouse

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**Written in response to the Bookstains American-Gothic Poetry Challenge**
***Also posted for Thursday Poets Rally (Week 39) ***

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I would also like to thank everyone at Thursday Poets Rally for your votes and participation, and for honoring me with this lovely award…

rays of brilliant sun
with hints of a fading moon
signs of lovely day

If only he had spoken..

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Challenge, Echostains, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Self potrait, Vincent Van Gogh, What would he have said

Vincent Van Gogh - a Self Portrait

Black orbs, deep-set looks
Sallow, sometimes bearded
Looking left and right

Never a smile
For quite a while

Done in a few strokes
Sitting too still, staring hard
As I paint some more

Feeling a rush
This flying brush

Wherever I went
Those eyes kept following me
What should I do now?

Will this e’er end?
Can this road bend?

Forgetting all woes
Coming back to my colors
I live just for them

They are my soul
They make me whole

Through paint I travel
This world, my rainbow haven
Penniless, I thrive

Sorrow unveiled
Canvas, I hailed

Fame is not for me
Wealth I shall pass for my love
For art dwells inside

I will live on
After I’ve gone…

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**This is a challenge whose response I first saw on KSeverny’s blog. It got me interested, and so, here I am, participating in it! The challenge is hosted by EchoStains! It’s awesome!! For more details on it, please click =>here <= or the image above … Enjoy :)**

***Yours truly has also submitted this post as her shot for One Shot Wednesday, hosted this week by our lovely Moondustwriter… Please do make time to read the amazing writes here by the other poets as well… One Shot ROCKS! 🙂 ***