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A Home-spun Frock
Will you drop me A line, Say you’re fine As a thread Come loose on my home- spun frock. The frock fits no more But write me more Of you, Find fine Lo(o)se thread? P.S: Linked to Trifecta
Posted in define, emotions, nature, poetry, relationships, thought, time, trifecta
Tagged a slice of your life, drop a line, home, Home-spun frock, letter, loose thread, lose thread, miss you, old frock, stay in touch
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Christmas Special
Six feet tall- well-built, well-groomed too, not a hair out of place. I am the sort that’ll make you involuntarily pause, resist the urge to turn back and stare at and then, turn back and sneak an envious glance at. … Continue reading
Posted in beauty, cheeky, nature, short short story, snip-snippet, style, time
Tagged celebrate, christmas, community, forgive, frumpy, home, midget, pine, season's spirit, six feet tall, ungroomed, woman, xmas tree
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The Bridal Bouquet
It was nice, a green, glowing morning, misty-eyed, shying out of further moonlighting. Peace enveloped me and the sleeping bundle of new skin, softly fleshy, dimpled and doubly delicate, his breath shallow, yet throbbing with life. I leant out, the … Continue reading
Posted in define, emotions, flowers, leave marks on skin, marks on skin, nature, poetry, relationships, short short story, snip-snippet, time, trifecta, woman
Tagged baby boy, bad time, banyan, child, dream, heal, home, hurt, lash, lean, recover, scar, tree, woman, young
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Home
The oil-blackened mud Lamp, light in dust Streams Through that overgrown hedge. Tripping down the stairs Landing with a thud! The book-case, creaky, Crowded with me Through the ages. The green of the water Tanked, cool and high … Continue reading
Plantern
A dozen Small white smiles Against the darkest Dark green: Life on my dry terrace- Frail and faint, Clingy and read- y-to-snap but intensely present.
Posted in beauty, colours, flowers, nature, outdoors, poetry, yellow lens
Tagged creeper, faint, frail, home, intense, life, ready to snap, smiles, terrace, white flowers
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ZOO, OOH
wild-er-ness: nature, making her choices branching into wild, wild(er), permanent ‘ness’ in whom she pleases; tags that lead some to wreak their will and some to hide the best they can, mumbling ‘er’s by way of apology for existing, taking … Continue reading
Posted in beauty, nature, poetry
Tagged act, animals, apology, be, cacophony, choices, decide, er, excuse self, glade, hide, home, melody, nature, outdoors, park, parody, permanence, play, self-hate, shafts of sunlight, space, sunlight, symphony, take up space, taking up space, vale, valley, wild, wilderness, will, wreak, zoo
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Sunny cloud and me, the shopper
Scintillating shadow of the cloud lit up the vanilla sky in a fuchsia pink pallor. Bathed in that eerie afterglow of a setting sun that shone even as it went down, we, the shoppers wished we could buy the sun and take … Continue reading
Lies in red
Red all over the place- roses and bleeding (not quite, but almost) hearts and red candles that even seemed to have red flames and red cutlery too. The only other colour was the bright green and gold that was draped … Continue reading
Posted in short short story, snip-snippet, time
Tagged accent, bling, candle, candy, celebrate, chair, cutlery, drape, flesh, floss, glitz, gold, green and gold, heart, home, lavishness, life, live as you like, making much of the other, obscene, obscenely ostentatious, outing, red, red arrow, red candles, rose, show-time, sling life, style, unseemly, wanton
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The Gifts of Magi
FRom the white balloon-skirt TO the bright pink shoes TRavels all over the country NEw tastes, cuisines and flavours fresh SPecial treats in my honour EVen when it wasn’t my birthday IT did feel like Christmas comes not once a … Continue reading
