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Tag Archives: life
lying awake
a wait? await? a weight? de-sire, hyphenated and full of possibilities. the period of wait: pregnant – a time for pause that can turn life on its head and bring forth new lies and life. P.S: Linking as a real … Continue reading
Posted in adult, define, emotions, intimacy, nature, poetry, relationships, shape, time, woman
Tagged about life, anxiety, eagerness, lie about life, life, pause, period
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Oktoberfest
when life and art mingle like a squishy tomato smattered and spreading live art on the wall, when life gives you the slip and lies its way to art, hangs out the window, bold and uncurtained, when you separate tradition … Continue reading
Posted in adult, beauty, colours, define, emotions, freedom, nature, outdoors, poetry, shape, time, yellow lens
Tagged arts, break conventions just so, break free, celebrations in confusion, fest, liberty, life, look upside down, oktober, spell backweards
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30
oh, yes! oval is beautiful- gently smoothed, rounded, no rough edges, a charmer for sure, too eee- la!- zzz- tic for a mere zero. but what of the hooked, hawkish three? not that i want the oval to bloat up, … Continue reading
Posted in beauty, define, friendship, poetry, shape, time, woman, yellow lens
Tagged 30, celebrate, happy brithday, hawkish, hooked, life, me, oval, party, rough edge, three, turning 30, us, zero
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Holes
Tears rolled down her sagging cheeks even as she kept rubbing at her already-reddened eyes. The story came out in bits and spluttering spurts, punctuated by little sobs here and there. “Thoday is your birthday this week. I wanthed to … Continue reading
Posted in define, emotions, friendship, nature, relationships, short short story, time, trifecta
Tagged child-woman, dream, life, lisp, love, sister, soft, soft in the head, termite
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Spaces
in that space of t.i.m.e when breath pauses before life begins anew there is naked hope and sometimes, smothered despair.
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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A Clip of Life
Twin saucers peeking out from under soft silk strands, a helpless clip dangling at the tip of those strands, purple with the effort of hanging on, just out of the safety of an upturned nose, quizzical lips half open, drinking … Continue reading
Posted in accessory, beauty, colours, poetry, shape, time
Tagged baby, life, naive, purple clip, silk, unspent years, young
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flame: of the forest
yesterday, it was in bloom, the flame of the forest, bordering my window, billowing curtains of petals down, in showers hot and hue-some, patterning the ground in eccentric patterns of extreme ecstasy, blinking and winking, streaming bright orange-red dreams for … Continue reading
Posted in adult, beauty, colours, crush, emotions, nature, poetry, relationships, woman
Tagged aflame, ambery, bleak evening, bleakness, blink, bloom, crush, curtains, eccentric, eccentric patterns, evening, flame, flame of the forest, forest, frame, gray, grayness, green, greenery, hear from, hear from you, hot, hue, huesome, lick, life, longing, miss, monosyllable, nature, orange, orange-red, pattern, petals, plants, red, speak, stream, streaming, tree, void, win, window, window curtains, winnow, winnowing, yearn
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one last time
would you believe me if i told you i can ‘be’, ‘live’ without you or ‘e’ to bridge my gaps and help me talk to life? would you buy me if i say i’m over you, shopping now in … Continue reading
Posted in adult, crush, emotions, moods, poetry, relationships, time
Tagged anchovies, anchovy, archive, be, believe, bore, break up, buy me, change, cheerio, cherry, choker, evolve, freeze, get over, hole in the wall, lie, life, love, love no more, massive ice, rude, time, unfeeling, wall
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Baby’s world
my eyelids had refused to come unstuck and sleep the night before, even as i coaxed her to sleep, with an out-of-tune lullaby, my baby, about to start school, her first shaky step into her own world, of wail and … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, being, chat, childhood, coax, daughter, depend, dress, fashion, friend, grow, grow up, her world, iron, life, lisp, lullaby, mother, out of tune, pace, relate, relive, school, share, style, talk, tango, time, waltz, with you, world
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