Thanks 2015!

2015 has taught me the following:

1. Motherhood is the best thing that can happen to a woman.
2. Aging is a difficult phase to deal with. Respect our elders.
3. From some point of time onwards, you stand to take responsibilities for the things that happened and did not happen in your life. Take charge of your life instead of letting others' opinions dominate it.
4. Love has to be earned. It cannot be forced from someone.
5. Do not get angry. It is a huge waste of your bodily energy and resources to react with anger.

Written for Indispire - edition 98 on Indiblogger.in

I have run away!

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This is the first time in my life. I have run away, I always wanted to run away from you. And today I gathered that strength. That strength transformed itself into brute force that gave my legs their motion towards deliverance I longed for. I want to believe all this is happening, but my senses are still numbed because of the intoxicating joy! Let me pause, take few quick breaths and say, "Hey Gravity, I want to fly high."

Written for Magpie Tales: mag 300

Find

When love can find us
When we can find love in us
We are forever.

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I spot you in crowd
I take wings and fly away
When you find me back.

Written for Haiku Horizons: "find"

Cover

Try hard or harder
Truth and love cannot be
Ignored or covered.

Written for Haiku Horizons: "cover"

Ground

The Earth was my ground,
As I found deliverance,
And sky my limit.

Written for Haiku Horizons: "ground"

Pepper

I asked for pepper.
Life gave me more than I asked,
With a pinch of salt.

Written for Haiku Horizons: "pepper"

Irony

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Many a mother lost theirs sons

Many a son bereaved theirs wives

It was a struggle with blood and guns

Stabbing from back with sharp knives.

"Fight or die for motherland," they shouted.

Men and women's manners absolved,

A seed of love for motherland sprouted

A tree bearing fruits and flowers, evolved.

Love-tree has life and is life-giving,

But, why is the red only from blood?

The love-tree that bore red flowers is thriving

When love and freedom are labelled to bloodshed.

Written for Magpie Tales: mag 293

Steam

As the steam rose high,
The lustful couple kissed more
In the shower tub.

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As the steam whistled
The food was being cooked
For hungry stomach.

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Written for Haiku Horizons: "steam"

Welcome to wonderland

Image Credit: photo by Elaine Usdin

Do you remember, Miss Alice? She followed a rabbit and got lost in a Wonderland. I wonder if life is also the same! We chase a dream, we run behind it like there is no tomorrow, when they come true, our fears for life are assuaged temporarily, until we find another rabbit to chase. This is a vicious cycle.

So, welcome again to wonderland and which rabbit did you chase down till here?

Magpie Tales: mag 292

Forget

How can you forget
Your to-do list and home-work
And not your dinner?

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A nerve in his brian
That tiny and elusive
Made him forget past.

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Written for Haiku Horizons: "forget"