Poetry - Verses and Hues

19 Sep

Poem: I forgot to live

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...

#adult, #career, #child, #desires, #dream, #forget, #freedom, #freeverse, #introspection, #liberty, #life, #life’s lessons, #live, #marriage, #memories, #poetrychallenge, #self awareness, #self discovery, #struggles, #teenager

15 Sep

Haiku: A Mother’s Shade

surged gloriously from a child to a parent in shade of your trust The post follows the prompt “shade” given by Haiku Horizons for the week #185.

#haiku, #haiku horizons, #love, #micropoetry, #mom, #mother, #mother's day, #parents, #poetrychallenge, #shade, #trust

11 Sep

Poem: A Child’s Musings

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...

#brutal, #child, #child abuse, #children, #crime, #cry, #depressed, #destiny, #heinous, #horrendous, #horrific, #justice, #killing, #mourn, #murder, #musings, #peace, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #Pradhyumn, #Pradyuman, #Pradyumn, #Ryan, #sad, #school

09 Sep

Haiku: Butterfly

tired larva cocoons accedes mutation with zeal beauty comes to life

#beauty, #butterfly, #change, #cocoon, #haiku, #haiku horizons, #inspiration, #larva, #micropoetry, #mutation, #poetrychallenge, #spirit, #transformation

08 Sep

Haiku: Cake

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...

#birthday, #cake, #celebration, #chocolate, #dessert, #haiku, #haiku horizons, #happiness, #micropoetry, #occassion, #party, #poetrychallenge

07 Sep

Poem: Tears

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...

#betrayal, #cry, #depressed, #depression, #despise, #emotions, #feelings, #freeverse, #hatred, #infidelity, #Lie, #life, #love, #pain, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #sad, #tears, #treason, #truth

01 Sep

Poem: A Woman’s Shoes

A closet flooded with shoes an obsession a woman ensues red, white, golden and blue black and pink in all its hue adding a tad of perfection a silhouette for each occasion beach flip flops to winter shoes...

#cinderella, #dVerse, #female, #footwear, #freeverse, #occasion, #poetics, #poetrychallenge, #shoes, #sneakers, #stilettoes, #wedges, #woman

30 Aug

Tanka: The Stone man

inquisitive eyes questioning my subsistence the stone man commanded to resuscitate my life to turn a new leaf of hope The post is linked to Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge # 48. The challenge is to...

#5lines, #Colleen’s Weekly, #inspiration, #introspection, #leaf, #life, #micropoetry, #motivation, #nature, #poetrychallenge, #restart, #revive, #statue, #stone, #tanka, #turn

29 Aug

Quadrille: I am grateful for…

a long list of grievances forever leads our way do we care to assimilate a list exhibiting “I am grateful for…” it’s certain to surpass the lead if we feel the bliss of another sunny day of...

#blessings, #bliss, #day, #dVerse, #grateful, #gratification, #gratitude, #grievances, #happiness, #illuminate, #inspiration, #life, #life’s lessons, #motivation, #poetrychallenge, #quadrille, #smiles

24 Aug

Poem: Border

Grace at dVerse has prompted us to write a poem on the “border”, especially the mental boundaries that borders create. I just went with the flow and couldn’t control my feelings while writing this piece, hence, a little long....

#aliens, #border, #boundaries, #brotherhood, #child, #countries, #creatures, #curiosity, #dispute, #dVerse, #enemies, #feelings, #fight, #freedom, #freeverse, #guns, #hatred, #humanity, #love, #mankind, #patriotism, #poetrychallenge, #politics, #purpose, #soldiers, #truth, #ufo, #war, #weapons

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