Diamond-dusted strands

Tags

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

Tags

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

Tags

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

Tags

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

Tags

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

Tags

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…

Tags

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!!!! 🙂

Crusted with fulfillment

Tags

Aims, Ambitions, Desires, Determination, Goals, Grit, Monday Poetry Potluck, One Shoot Sunday, Sunday 160, Writing one's own destiny

Image Credits - Sean McCormick

I
high
in the sky
never to deny
any of my aspirations,
inspirations,
preparations
lying in wait,
rewriting fate
with instincts innate
knowing it’s ne’r too late

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**Posted for:
Monday Poetry Potluck
Sunday 160 (hosted by Monkey Man)
One Shoot Sunday**

Leading to self…

Tags

Destiny, Footprints, Inner self, Make your own fate, Monday Poetry Potluck, One Shoot Sunday, Peace, Relaxation, Sanctum sanctorum, Sunday 160

Image Credits: Iquanyin Moon

Clutched in hand
Yet engraved in sand
Ever under scrutiny
Is a stated destiny
But on mind’s shore
Where thoughts score
I find this estuary
My very own sanctuary

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**Posted for One Shoot Sunday, Poetry Potluck as well as for Monkey Man’s amazing Sunday 160!! **

Not another one please…

Tags

12 or 13?, Breaking news!, Fun, Humor, Jingle Poetry, Monday Poetry Potluck, Monkey Man, Ophiucus, Signs, Signs of the Zodiac, Sunday 160

Image Credits: Google images

They say
The change is astronomical
I say
Just plain comical

They say
It’s named Ophiuchus
I say
Hmm… Hocus pocus

They say
Twelve + one
I say
Whatever, hun!

 

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**Posted for Monkey Man’s Sunday 160 (stories/poems in 160 characters) and also for Monday Poetry Potluck! Check ’em out… and ENJOY!!! **

Faint blur

Tags

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!!! ***

Sewn together…

Tags

Anniversary, Jan 28th, January, Marriage, Month Challenge, Poetry, Sunday 160, Wedding

Credits: Our wedding clicker.. Model: Me!

One day in January
None too ordinary
Down came a fairy
And got us to marry

We began to worry
Oh it seemed so scary
But now we’re merry
With another anniversary

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*~*Posted for Monkey Man’s Sunday 160, : Stories/poems in 160 characters!!
Also posted for Lady Nimue’s Month Challenge (for January, which also happens to be my birthday month.. yaay!!): A challenge where you write a poem for each month of the year!

Do check these out… You LOVE what you’ll find here… 🙂 *~*

Almond drops…

Tags

Almond shaped, Saline, Salty, Sunday 160, Tears

Image Credits - DeviantArt.com

A fluid pearl
Whipped in a whirl
Formed in the oyster of an eye
Expelled with a sigh
At first signs of a mere whim
Rolling in a stream slim
Salty… unstoppable

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**Posted for Sunday 160, hosted by Monkey Man… For more stories/poems written in 160 characters or less, you REALLY MUST check this out!! :)**

Celestial Affair

Tags

Crescent moon cut by a dark streak, Moon, Smiling at the moon, Sunday 160

Image credits - photobucket.com

Silver slim crescent
In indigo, slow ascent
Wisp of misty scent

One grey streak cuts thru’
Painted with the darkest hue
For moon, that’s not new

Shy? So am I.

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**Posted for Sunday 160 hosted by Monkey Man.. Check out what the other writers/poets had to say in 160 characters.. 🙂 **

Painted Plain

Tags

BLUE, Cloudless Sky, Plane crossing a Plain Blue Sky, Sunday 160, Within the window frame

Clicked by me

I’m awake
A wall I view
Not fake
Of pure blue

Where am I?
I’ve no clue
A dragonfly
Afar it flew

A drone I hear
And then I knew
It’s the sky clear
Azure in hue

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**My entry for Monkey Man‘s Sunday 160!! Check what these writers could write in 160 characters (or less) :)**

From my easychair

Tags

Beautiful, Cloudy, Easychair and coffee, Gloomy, Monkey Man, Rainy, Sunday 160, View from inside

Growing drops
On my window
Hand in hand
Down they flow
Beyond them
Clouds billow
Threatening
Loud and slow
Silently,
I watch the show
Bound within
Nowhere to go

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*Posted for Sunday 160, hosted by Monkey Man. Please do check out the creative reads by the other writers-poets here…*

**A VERY COLORFUL AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BRIAN!!!!! :)**

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Tags

Celebration, Freedom, Happy Independence Day!, Indian Independence Day, Sunday 160

Wearing Taj
Go British Raj
Cotton wheel
Bolly-reel
Farming pride
IT-ride
Bombay to Mumbai
Madras to Chennai
You’ve come a long way
India, Happy Independence Day

*Posted for Sunday 160, hosted by Monkey Man. Please do check out the creative reads by the other writers-poets here…*

**Today is 15th August, the day when India and all of us Indian children celebrate our Independence from the British Rule… This is an ode to honor India on completing 63 years of FREEDOM !! :)**

***JAI HIND!!! :)***

One Night Stand

Tags

Bionaire, Monkey Man, My standing fan, One night-stand :), Sleepless, Sunday 160, Tireless companion

He stands right there
Blowing cool air
Throwing a stare
Giving me the scare

It ain’t fair
Me waiting in despair
While sleep, I spare
My fan and I; What a pair!

*I was thinking of what to write for the Sunday 160 VERY LATE last night… and in my otherwise silent room, I heard a hum… It wasn’t my noisefree A/C.. It was my FAN! And there! I knew what to write about… :)*

**Posted for Sunday 160 hosted by Monkey Man! Check out what the other writers had to say in 160 characters… This place is a COOL melting pot of creative juices!! :)**

My Almanac of Memories

Tags

A colored life, Clicks, Collection of memories, Frozen moments, Life in pictures, Photo album, Photographs, Pictures, Random images from the past, Snaps, Stories in stills, Sunday 160

It’s not just a picture
Or a moment still
But a full rapture
Of life’s grit and will
It’s not just a slide
Of time in a freeze
But a jolly ride
On a warm breeze

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**My post for this week’s Sunday 160 hosted by Monkey Man… Do check out the other contributors as well… :)**

Lancie, here I come!

Tags

Cloudy, Decision made, Drive it is!, Natural carwash, Rainy, Sunday 160

Clouds grey all over
Menacingly they hover
I wanna go on a drive
Touch speed of 75
Rains cast a doubt
I fret n pout
Finally see my path
Hey! My car needs a bath

**Written for this week’s Sunday 160 hosted by Monkey Man! Check it out… it’s real fun! :)**

The harried glow..

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Dark, Dim light, Evening glow, Film, Fog, Reflected glow, Shadows, Sunday 160

I saw a dim light.
Was it really dim
Or was fog setting in
Or was I going blind
Or was it a cloud of dismal fear
spreading a film over my eyes?
How will I know?

** My contribution for this week’s Sunday 160, hosted by Monkey Man .. Take a look at others’ stories as well, and enjoy!**

All aboard!

Tags

Aboard and waiting, Arrival, Destination, Journey, Sunday 160, Travel

It chugged away
Fast as it could
It made us sway
Tried to be good
Opened its doors
To all pilgrims in line
Reached the end of its course
When will I reach mine?

**For Sunday 160 hosted by Monkey Man! **

Story of emptiness

Tags

160 characters, Empty, Full, Overflowing, Sunday 160, Teapot, Trial

With challenges overflowing,
restrictions aplenty,
options few,
solution one,
stands my narrow-mouthed,
skinny little teapot.
But there is nothing left to pour.

**My first attempt at Sunday 160 hosted by Monkey Man! 🙂 I used the Design215 tool for counting characters..**