‘Politeness’ for dummies

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Annoying, Autocratic, Book of "manners", Bossy, Dictator, Harsh, Ill-mannered, Monitor, Nit-picky, Order order!, Own rules!!, Poetry Potluck, Rude, Ruler, Teacher, Treating like a child, Unheeding of another

Image Credits:moon_shaped@DeviantArt

When you came to me
Asking if I could aid
I felt a sense of pride
That in me you saw an aide
And with no second thought
I jumped in on your blade

When I followed rules
That were made to terrorize
I kept saying to myself
It’s only to harmonize
Not once did I suspect
Your intent to dramatize

When I cleaned the mess
That you had left behind
I sure did not expect
For you to pay in kind
Neither did I have
Your ‘thank you’ in my mind

But when I offer you
A piece of my advice
You may like it; you may not
That’s a roll of dice
But assume some good manners
And just be a little nice

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**Posted for Poetry Potluck (Week 39 – Theme: Dictatorship, Autocracy and Despotism) – the coolest place for some fantastic poetry! Link in, read on, and simply ENJOY!!! **

Blushing Blue

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Analogy, Blue blood, Castle, Characteristics, Depiction of self, Fortress, Good and Bad, Grand, Luxury, Metaphorical, Palace, Poetry Potluck, Protected, Qualities, Regal, Royal, Royal blood, Self image, Self portrayal, Week 35

Image credits: turtle_rn@DeviantArt

Where tall doorways open to
a plethora of unspoken powers
Where winding stairs lead to
a patio of the wildest flowers

Where chandeliers of tears
hang from arched high ceilings
Where closed chests hold
a treasure of hidden feelings

Where impenetrable ramparts
guard all chambers of integrity
Where refined tastes coexist
with a fine dose of alacrity

Where portraits of memories
carefully adorn long corridors
Where mysteries wait to be
unearthed from marbled floors

Where fountains of thought
flow beside the bravest knights
Where the moon spares a beam
on the most darkest of nights

This is my body
– my armed fortress –
This is my soul
– my whimsical mansion –
This
…is I…

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**Written for Poetry Potluck (Week 35 – Theme: Fortresses, Castles, Palaces and Royal houses).. Check it out, and enjoy this tour de royalty!! You will be amazed at the treasures you’ll find here… **

Absorbing it all

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A small side effect, Allergy, Birds and butterflies, Blooms, Blossoms, Chills, Colors, Energizing, Green, Nature's blessing, Onset of Spring, Poetry Potluck, Refreshing, Scents floating, Season of joy, Sensory delight, Spring

Image credits: Lilyas @ DeviantArt

sweet scents titillate
electric hued butterflies
flirtatious blooms call

lingering crisp chills
from a fading winter night
dew perches on blades

young birds awaken
whistling harmless gentle tunes
a lazy oak yawns

fresh moments blossom
into days of springy joy
eyes hungry for more

pollen’s in the air
time for allergic despair
aacchhooo!!!! Scusi please… 🙂

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**Haiku set posted for Poetry Potluck (week 34 – theme: Color, Spring and Rainbow)… Check it out, folks… and be prepared to revel in sheer awesomeness! 🙂 **

Diamond-dusted strands

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Childhood moments, Forever, Memories, Nostalgia, Not just bygones, Photo album, Photographs, Poetry Potluck, Recollections, Snapshot in time, Special, Sunday 160, Sweet memories, Treasured

Image credits: myambeon@DeviantArt

Padlocked doors
Unbolted
Treasure chests
Unlocked
Jeweled timeframes
Unchained
Candied moments
Unwrapped
Torrential floods
Unleashed
Into chasms
Of a frozen now

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**Posted for Monkey Man’s Sunday 160 and Poetry Potluck (Week 29 – Photographs, Memories and Nostalgia)**

***And here, I just wanted to let you all know that I am having an awesome time in India… Yes, I am still jet lagged, and even after a week into my trip, I am living on New York time :)… but it’s alright, cuz my parents are really impressed that I wake up so early… LOLZ ! Anyway, I have a looooong day ahead of me today, I am really hoping that I don’t fall asleep in the car while my hubby’s driving… I hate dozing off in the car! Can’t afford to miss the lush greenery around me this time… the coconut groves are BREATHTAKINGLY beautiful! Yes yes, I WILL put up some pictures soon!! I promise! 🙂 Take care, you awesome peeps! Love you all.. And am missing you like crazy… booohooohoo***

Skies, Lands and Seas

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Air travel, Airport, Annoying, Bags, Friends and Family, Fun, Hassles, India, Monkey Man, New York, Packing, Poetry Potluck, Ride to airport, Sunday 160, Trip, Vacation, Worth it

Image Credits: laucish@DeviantArt

Suitcases
Set for air
Cab races
Raising hair
Long queues
Frisky check
Delay blues
What the heck!
But yon,the smiles
Tis no mirage
Making dull miles
A bon voyage

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**Posted for Poetry Potluck(week 28) and for Monkey Man’s Sunday 160**

***Sitting with bags stuffed and packed, I’m all ready for my 3-week trip to India… So, for the next 3 weeks, in case you don’t find me visiting you regularly, please be a little patient with me… I promise to haunt your blogs AS SOON AS I am back… 🙂 In the meanwhile, I hope to be able to put up some fun pictures from my trip along with as many poems as I possibly can!! 🙂 With this, I wish you all a lovely time… C y’all sooooon!! ***

Outbreak of deceit

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Cheating, Corruption, Cruel, Deception, Flowing, Gurgling, Lava, Lies, Meltdown, Monkey Man, Poetry Potluck, Sunday 160, Uncontrollable, Unstable, Unsteady grounds of truth, Untruth, Volcanic, World of lies

Image credits:chickloveslotr@DeviantArt

 

Born into
a life abrupt
of some volcano
gurgling to erupt
With its molten lava
flowing only to disrupt
the soothing peace around
with its ways cruel and corrupt

 

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**Posted for Monkey Man’s Sunday 160 and for Poetry Potluck (week 27)**

Letter from a temptress

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Chocolate, Cocoa, Inviting invitation, Letter, Letter to me, Milk chocolate, Monkey Man, Note, Poetry Potluck, Seducer, Seduction, Seductress, Sunday 160, Tempter, Tempting, Temptress

Image credits: zweeZwyy@DeviantArt

Come
Melt your senses
On my smooth skin
Delve
Into my creamy waves
I’ll give you a spin
Soak
In my umber richness
Don’t call it a sin

Irresistibly yours,
Cocoa

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**Posted for Monkey Man’s Sunday 160, and for Poetry Potluck (Week 26)**

Placed high

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A muse speaks, An idea's voice, By-product of a brain, From the idea's perspective, Idol, Idolized, Monkey Man, Muse, Poetry Potluck, Shape poetry, Sunday 160, The voice of a thought, Thoughts, Worshipped

Image: ahermin@DeviantArt

I
an
iota
a truth
inside your
wildly fertile
and lucid imagination
not just a hazy hallucination
but a soft sensation
hardly tactile
the demure
dainty
muse
am
I

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**Written and posted for:
Monkey Man’s Sunday 160 – for stories/poem in 160 characters or less
Poetry Potluck (Week 25)**

Solemn Plea

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Calvin & Hobbes, Calvin and Hobbes, Cartoon, CnH, Conquer, Dream, Fun, Imagination, Monkey Man, Poetry Potluck, Sci-fi, Sunday 160, Tweety, Wish

My favorite!!!

And my fave!

If Calvin can be
Spaceman Spiff
And dodge aliens rough
Then I wish to fight
My aqua fiends
By being Ms. SeaBuff

If Tweety tan be
In a little tage
Yet have the big tat twapped
Then I wish to be
A butterfly
With skies and wind unwrapped

Wanna be my Hobbes today?
Or my colored wings, if you may?

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**Posted for Poetry Potluck (week 24).. Check it out, link in yours…and ENJOY!!!! :)**

Zone of placidity

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Abode, Dwelling, Free, Haiku, Home, Peace, Place of calm, Poetry Potluck, Relaxation, Sanctum, Sunday 160, The Haiku Challenge, Unbounded, Where we find calm

pillowing in peace
in lulls of a humming mind
no chaotic grunge

inhaled and infused
cool scents of blooming freshness
tepid seclusion

sans confines, I glide..

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Written for:
Sunday 160 (stories in 160 characters or less),
Poetry Potluck (poetry with a theme)
The Haiku Challenge (a haiku a day)

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Thank you, Leo & Dakshi, for nominating me for as the Perfect Poet for this week… I am honored!! Here’s my little Haiku for you…

bringing summer smiles
drizzled with springing freshness
joys knowing no bounds

And with this, I would like to nominate DeadPoet88 for as the Perfect Poet for week 39…

Caressing by…

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Absorbing, Breezy, Delicate, Love, One Shoot Sunday, Poetry Potluck, Relationships, Soft, Soothing, Sunday 160, Sweet, The Haiku Challenge, Warm

Captured by Sean McCormick

Image by SiS

like zephyrs that spill
moist kisses of sweet Spring
soaked by porous walls

like leaves that rustle
in the midst of amber Fall
tasted by blind eyes

love swims

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Posted for:
One Shoot Sunday (where pictures talk…)
Sunday 160 (for stories in 160 characters or less…hosted by Monkey Man )
Poetry Potluck (a melting pot of thematic goodies… hosted by Aleza and moi!)
& The Haiku Challenge (a Haiku a day, hosted by our Someone is Special)

Click, read…and enjoy!!!! 🙂

Faint blur

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Imagination, Interpretations, Musings, Past, Poetry Potluck, Reflections, Sunday 160, Thinking

Image Credits - DeviantArt.com

faint shadows dancing
behind smooth flimsy curtain
ghoulish puppetry

thunder and flashes
whizzing past turbid waters
ripples created

Images of precious past..

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**This haiku set has been posted for Monkey Man’s Sunday 160!! For more tales written in 160 characters or less, please visit his blog… **

*** Also posted for our lovely Monday Poetry Potluck!!! ***