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Lake Esse

The prying air blew from yonder,Ensconcing me with humid spray;From chill - snugging me asunder,I clothed, as I reached the Lake Esse. Ripples made by hasty dragonflies,Making stir, reach the…

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The Ringmaster’s world

The showman adorned,In an embellished shroud,Lies on the bed of nails,As if lying on a couch. A performer swallows deep,A furious flaming torch,A man aims darts at another man,Tied on…

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The Texture Of Time

15 Oct 202015 Oct 2020

A path of sand leads the way -For devotees up to the temple,Path embraces footprints,In return pacifies their feet. The shore that hides shellfish,Locks in its chest many a memories,Of…

Jane Eyre – Review

5 Oct 202015 Oct 2020

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Genre: Novel, Romance Originally Published by Smith, Elder & Co. of London in 1847 Published on 29/06/2006 by Penguin Classics Pages: 624 ISBN: 9780141441146…

An ode to a Dad

Had you been alive today, you would have turned 69. We, Amma, Malli and I, wish Happy Birthday silently for you; wherever you are, may your life be filled with…

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Damsel in the dark

She tries to protrude her doe-eyesAnd sees into the world's innocence,She toils to make her hair neat,Her fingers trapped in the tangled clew. She peeps from a gap at the…

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Awakening of youth

The flower bud adorned with puberty rights,Now she's harnessed with new mights,Blushed with new summer cravings,Awaits a bug with tender behavings. Her widened loin bears fertile-ware,Stamens release pollen adrift in…

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Into a new world

18 Jun 202020 Jun 2020

I, gasping from the long journey,Stepped higher and higher,The wind was blowing hard,My pesky hair locks windblown. My legs trembling out of fear,Body dithering and spurring up the steps,Reaching the…

Love of Nuptials

Until we are parted by death,In sickness and in good health,For richer, for poorer in wealth,Am his partner till life endeth. Who hath not seen the beauty of tying the…

Once for the lifetime

6 Jun 202010 Nov 2020

Her eyes among a thousands of themStruck a spark in my heart's den,Those soft lips that defy rose petalsLeft me with a flare deep in my bowels. Those cheeks better…