Wednesday 19 October 2016

a casual walk



Courtesy Google



…through the streets of colorful scenes and occasional unpleasant odor, we walk, hand in hand; Lenskart’s colorful showroom looking through the toughened glass---one frame free---a free frame to frame our vision; we walk on, talk about views, casually, that we own perceptions and overlook other’s views, subtlety melts over the boundaries, to view it means labor…

eagle’s eye, strident
fish beneath water, silent
young age, refraction betrays

…shops are vibrant with Diwali’s colour, they colour our vision, a hesitant ecstasy arising with no convinced reason; the boy who sells balloons stares long at the dry fruit shop, people who shops have their plump little kids, he is staring at them with vacant eyes…

Prussian blue sky
Stars glimmering, fantasy
vehicles blew smoke

city booms with color and sound, we return home, with fresh air, diyas and hungry stomachs; aroma of ghee soaked roties, curry, pulav and many more things from the apartment fills our room, what to cook hovers around our heads as we enter the silent kitchen…


 


16 comments:

  1. This is an excellent description of the city. Did you mean for it to post on Monday's prompt from Bjorn, a haibun about the city - prose and haiku? It's posted here, for Tuesday's Poetics which is to write a poem that Includes at least two homophones (words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings).

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    1. hello...thank you so much...actually I started writing this for Bjorn's haibun prompt and then came your's...two pairs I could manage are, blue-blew and on-own. And somehow I ended up linking it here.

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  2. I see blue/blew...and went searching for a second set (thinking it might be a combo prompt, which would be cool), which I could not find. I like this piece, very much...and it would be quite easy to add the word "there" or "seen," to match the prompt you've posted for.

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    1. Oooo. I think "our" and "are" might count, yes? ;)

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    2. thank you so much for this encouragement...blue/blew and on/own are the pair I could fit in with this write. but you find one more.... all smiles and thank you...

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  3. Cool.. this would actually fit both the Tuesday prompt and the haibun prompt... love the way you have used the smells and tastes of a city (and for me it's so exotic)...

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    1. thank you so much...this was in mind for quite sometime...especially after a walk, your prompt brought this out...

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  4. what to cook hovers around our heads
    as we enter the silent kitchen…

    Coming home hungry in the big city is normal. One can eat a horse! But one has to do it all by oneself often times alone in the house!

    Hank

    Hank

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    1. Thank you Hank....and yes that's really a situation if you are not dining out... :)

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  5. shops are vibrant with Diwali’s colour,
    they colour our vision,
    a hesitant ecstasy arising
    with no convinced reason


    Lovely!! ❤️

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  6. A vibrant and flavorful stroll through the streets.

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  7. Beautiful walk with you in the beauty of Diwali's night. Clever how you wed the two prompts.

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  8. Love the vibrant colors and sensory delights from your country Sreeja ~

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