For : Haiku Heights
        Day 14 Sept
Prompt : River






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RIVER

Spry wave’s dreamy eyes

Beholds her whirlwind romance

At estuary

For : Haiku Heights
        Day 13 Sept
Prompt : Superstition



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SUPERSTITION

Fear psychosis

Extending its tentacles

Grips unaware minds

Black cats dance in joy

Inauspicious time steps in

Geckos on walls tick

For :  Poetry Jam
&      Verse First

    LAND LOST FOREVER

 

   
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On enchanting stormy nights

When candle flickered

And ma and grandma prodded the clay oven

To keep the ember alight

When aroma of fried *hilsa and **khichdi

Wafted up from the kitchen

We would ride happily on grandpa’s Pegasus

The old voice lovingly spun never ending tales

Though the moment’s dreamland melted away

When storms receded and powers returned

Still such moments were frequent

Once upon a time……………

That fairyland of my childhood

Where I was pampered and fed on stories

Where ‘Raindrops on roses

And whiskers on kittens’

Blessed my blithe soul

Where that old voice stood by me

In most of my trials

Has been taken away

 By the omnipotent Time

Who however hasn’t snatched away

These memories till now

I hope they last and not get lost

*this fish is an icon of Bengali cuisine

**a preparation made from rice and lentils

        

For : Haiku Heights
        Day 11 Sept.
Prompt : Tradition


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TRADITION

Black velvet sky gapes

At the twinkling land below

On Diwali nights

 

For : Haiku Heights
        Day 10 Sept.
Prompt : Kitchen

KITCHEN

Clay oven, coal, smoke

Smiling modular kitchen

Mothers love to toil

For : Haiku Heights
        Day 09 Sept
Prompt : Decision
                                                          
                                                                             

DECISION

No TV, fictions

Only school, art, game, homework

Mother’s decision

Stomach ache, no school

Child chuckles mother anxious

It’s his decision