Beauty of Nature

 Prompt: 27

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Beauty of Roses

Those beauties standing on thorns

 glowing and blooming

In myriad colors beautifying surrounding

Less known to world

Pain they breathe on thorns

They ooze colours on faces

On Envious nature they blush superficially

Seeing others pedestal soft

They bleed beauty on face

It’s rightly said, “ Endurance with patience glorifies you”

Have you seen those blue roses? All blessed and blessing us

 those yellows, full of laughters, lightening beauty

Pinks & whites, blooming peace and good health

So what say!! Who can ignore beauty of Roses and move ahead?

No… I don’t instigate you to pluck and hurt them

Let them be where they belong

Let them live and perish on their own

You just go to any flower garden 

To appreciate and click their pics with your eyes

Then settle them in your hearts 

In need to feel the fragrance of their presence 

In your life 

And thanking nature to be with us

May God Bless Us With Beauty of Nature Constantly!

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Self Reflection

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Day1, Self Reflection 

It was once, I remember,

My eyes i saw squinty

Unknown to me

The direction double

Oh! How i wished,

My neck like swan

Long and swanky

Ornamented, 

Looking like queen’s neck

Oh! How i wished,

I was a queen

Nose seemed little straight

Or too crooked, 

Impossible to judge

Or was it too broad 

Cheeks plump

Like mountain peak

And the lips crooked

Now i wonder

From which angle 

Did I reflect myself

As a perfect woman?

This question still haunts me!!

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Move-on

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Day: 23

                  “Move On”

Collections of twigs done

I don’t know from where,

They have this skill honed 

With no needle, no thread 

They make the nest so beautiful

While making their nest 

Their heart is joyful

They await for their beloved

To come to live in that nest

And if she doesn’t turn up

They will leave that home to “move on”

It’s a tale i tell  because they too know

“Moving on” is the best option 

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Lost Rhymes

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Day-24

             Lost Rhymes

For years i never sang

I knew my voice not in favour

I dropped out to write poems

In poems, there were few rhyming well

My daughter picked up those rhymes

And she made songs out of them

With her team orchestra 

She on violin

Sat down to play and sing

People in the square

Liked the song, started tapping with their feet

I too joined her, as my confidence grown

I found my joy that was lost as a child

Happy today to meet my poems

In the songs they flaunt

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Revisited Mythology

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Day-12

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On the battle ground, falls “Ravana” with injured body,

chanted the name of “Lord Rama.”

 Rama- who was his enemy, on his last breath with Ravana.

Paradoxically, both being enemies, 

Fought the battle frivolous. 

Chivalrous heros! whom “the 

Bharat- my country worships as “God”

Were they in reality the enemies?

With “Heart of Gold”

Sorrows, lies, hopes, 

On the words, blood flowed

Deaths of Good Souls

The Battle was fought!!

II.

She was a woman, for whom,

dynasty of Pandavas fell!

Humiliation, molestation, betrayal, treachery, Archery

Led to bloody battle of “Hastinapur”- a land of Pandav dunasty

Words and swears exchanged

Elders held silence,

as a weapon to escape

Escape from questions where lied no answers

Conclusion of these two mythologies: 

A wife of five Pandavas

A wife of devoted husband.

100 brothers on the battle front  in unity were killed

4 brothers, unitedly, they won

In both these mythologies

What truth do you and I hold

Out of these two mythologies?

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Twisted Poems

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Day: 15

Prompt: 6-line stanzas

Bad for Smile

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In his prayer, he prayed! I know not, what?

When his eyes opened, Opened up his prayer,

It was me, in front of him

He smiled at me!

And me! Lo! My heart miled in him

And he smiled till his jaws fractured

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    (Dis)Similar  Twist

Simlarly dissimilar, Shoes i bought

I bought to cover my feet to move on feet

In my shoes my little toe twist

In that twist,  i did twist!

Amidst the twist my ankle slip

In that slip i went to sleep

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Morning Delight

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Day: 16

Morning beauty delights

When the sun rises,

it turns to face the sun,

wishing, “A very good morning!”

A magical dance of the sunflowers

at the kiss of the rising star.

A morning sets the stage for music,

and the birds set to sing.

Morning sun whispers to me

from my window, mocking me,

“Wake up to see my beauty dance.”

A morning breeze touches my face;

the fragrance of mogras and roses reaches me.

My footsteps walk towards them

on the green grass as I walk;

I fill myself with morning beauty.

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