THE OWL

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Why has Lakshmi* chosen the owl?

Goddess of fortune with Dark Knight?

No one dares to be out and prowl

Why has Lakshmi chosen the owl?

A scampering mouse finds night foul

Lakshmi’s bounty makes ploughmen bright

Why has Lakshmi chosen the owl?

Goddess of fortune with Dark Knight?

*In Hindu religion Lakshmi is the goddess of wealth and prosperity and She has a white owl as her carrier. I think she seems to assure agricultural prosperity as her owl provides a free service of eradicating rodents and thus securing a good harvest…..

Posted for Alan's Prompt : Owl @ Poetry Jam

HAPPY  HOLI

Boisterous Holi comes with Spring

Dawn makes sure that the day shines bright

Dark desires burnt in the night

Frolicsome spirits dance and sing

Blooms burst colors to make bees hum

Boozers doze with carafe and rum

All squirt colors feud forgetting

The Sun above promises warmth

Tropical heat muses in mirth

Hearts in bright hues much rejoicing

Bliss wafts silently through the air

Though coal-black moments are not rare

Through ages flow merry-making

In all lands in different name

If I’m not happy who’s to blame?

Boisterous Holi comes with Spring

Frolicsome spirits dance and sing

All squirt colors feud forgetting

Hearts in bright hues much rejoicing

Through ages flow merry-making

* Holi (English pronunciation: /ˈhoʊliː/) (Sanskrit: होली) is a spring festival also known as festival of colours, and sometimes festival of love.^[3][4] It is an ancient Hindu religious festival which has become popular with non-Hindus in many parts of South Asia, as well as people of other communities.<sup>[ The festival signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, end of winter, and for many a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair ruptured relationships5]   
               Courtesy :  Wikipedia

Posted for Kerry's hosting of Sunday Form Challenge - Constanza @ Real Toads
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Shared with Poetry Pantry @ Poets United</sup> 

 I  HAD  NO  FORESIGHT

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As the Hilsa fry* melt in my palate

I am in heaven

And all those shiny heavenly bodies

Become meat balls and pies

To thousand children’s dreamy eyes

I sigh

As I savor each page of Hungry Tide**

I am in heaven

And all the words of heavenly manna

Become hard rock and stone

On thousand minds’ treading zone

I moan

As He in Heaven smiles and asks

“What have you fed your soul with?”

I remain silent and become shy

Slowly comes my broken reply

“My soul’s never been hungry”

*A Bengali delicacy

**Novel by Amitav Ghosh

Posted for Gabriella's Prompt Savour the Food @ Poetry Jam

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Shared with Susan's Mid Week Motif ~ Prescience / Foresight @ Poets United

  

GUNS and FLOWERS

Trenches bleed

One little seed

Shell-shocked soul

Shoots on bole

Cannons boom

Flowers bloom

Shadow’s mirth

Light’s birth

A bellicose rhyme

For a forest sublime

Posted for : Grace's prompt : Sunday's Feature Artist : Vandy Massey @ Real Toads

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Shared with Poetry Pantry @ Poets United