Category: NaPoWriMo
NaPoWriMo 22 : Epitome of Friendship
Friendlessly yours
Holding hands across a screen
Tasting the tears that roll down your cheek
and trying not to let mine hurt you
Putting in smileys when cracks begin to show up
Connected but without being plugged in
© ReenaPrasad
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NaPoWriMo 21 : Paper Dolls
Paper Dolls
They never knew a world
not shaped like a man
Born into an armful of sighs,
they grew up as responsibilities
living like mushrooms
lest they be ‘ruined’ before they could flower
Then deflowered by aged stamens
their remains were turned over
to motherhood
Sunken desert succulents,
they withered and flowered
with seasonal sprays
fattening meanwhile the next
‘of the same kind’ blooms
and one day their dry stems
were consignated to woody flames
A paper doll twin in a glass case
decorated with red garlands
was stuck on a wall with a light bulb’s
zero-watt glow under it,
infinitely better off
©Reena Prasad
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NaPoWriMo 19 : Rara avis
Rara avis
I see no stones in my path to you
even though stone courtyards abandoned
by a forgotten race
these seem to be
All I see
is a rara avis take flight
from between the pages of a book
An avian lover’s delight
He soars, dips and
alights
on the branch
before me
©Reena Prasad
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NaPoWriMo 18 : Joie de vivre
The last poem
And when the earth gave a mighty heave
and rested its last unbroken piece
on a jagged cliff, a sift occurred
Poets being more surefooted than the rest
were left on the narrowest of ledges
“Bring your best poem, only one. The best”
came the cry,
“See that red world floating on the ocean
that is where the best will survive!”
And I threw myself into the blue sea
for a poem you had made me
and within me were a thousand poems
of yours, each one the best
written with your breath
and there wasn’t between them
any comparison or enmity
What joie de vivre was in that fall!
The splash drenched this world
where I lay dreaming
©Reena Prasad
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NaPoWriMo 15 : A Limerick
The smiling camels of Oman
Two camels in the country of Oman
had teeth larger than mouths and they felt wan
They met a nice orthodontist
who put the teeth in some wire twists
and soon they became part of a smiling clan
©Reena Prasad
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NaPoWriMo 14 : Flirtations
Flirtations
Every word spoken unwraps the mystery
but why look too hard
when you can conjure up a sea, some sand
a archway of flowering climbers and walk through it
in ecstacy
All because of a dropped glance
©ReenaPrasad
