Un-Fairy Tale

Wikimedia Commons

Once upon a time

this Earth was a little red riding hood

bringing food to us,

the fake grandmas-

the Earth has now sloughed

her fairytale skin

and has been enduring and living through

only to explode someday

to live happily ever after-

Posted for Sherry’s prompt Un-fairy Tales at What’s Going Blog

Keepsakes and Treasure Chests

Photo : Sumana Roy

My latest memento

is a miniature two inch surfboard

bought from Bali recently;

now adorning my fridge-

it reminds me

of those

memory-making-moments in Bali

and

also a failed bargaining-

such souvenirs

from all my different journeys

bide their time

silently

to drown me one day-

for

I know too well

I can’t be that bird*

owning nothing and flying-

*Storage by Mary Oliver

Posted for Susan’s prompt keepsakes and Treasure Chests at What’s Going On Blog

A Book of Songs

Wikimedia Commons : Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

When abandoned

in the wilderness of grief,

each song of your Geetabitan*

was manna dew to sustain me-

in the darkness

each luminescent word

stared at me, a broken being;

all mist and fog and dust and smoke-

stirring me into life they became my sky

where I spread my wings-

I live in your songs,

old, bearded man-

they are my home-

*Geetabitan is a book by Rabindranath Tagore in three volumes containing a collection of 2232 songs.

Posted for my prompt Books/Reading at What’s Going On Blog