DABBLER SCRIBBLES

Like the dew of the early dawn, Slipping from the petals of orchid, Your thoughts slip over my psyche, Enchanting, Bewitching and slowly, I drown in it, Helpless I am, And when I hear the breeze, Rising from your meadows, It sings ode of your persona, Of which I wish to be a stanza, The one with relentless rhyme, For when you sing...

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Wake up from this salubrious sleep, End this enchanting devil’s dance, For you know the time shan’t return, To give them another chance, Bewitch the forlorn and afraid, Arouse the valor with wizardry glance, Take the poison rubbed arrows, Foster the calm archer’s stance, Another night, while the dragon sleeps, Unsheathe the sword, sharp the lance, When the ogres merry the night, Slaughter...

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I see men come and men go, Like the wind on meadows that flow, I hear them whisper deep desires, Like the arrows that the mind fires, I see them chase the city glitters, To finally fall like the tree that withers, I feel their agony behind the smiles, Which sparks a heart-fire from miles, I see them curse the dawning sun, And...

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                                              The warmth of the sharp beam of sunrays brightened the aura beyond his closed eyes and his diaphanously opened eyes flinched at the brightness of the rays after the night’s storm. He was lying with his face down on the sand...

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(PUBLISHED IN FICTION MAGAZINE, 2014) He knew he should not have trusted Philip this time but it was too late for him to repent his decision. Philip was long consumed in the waves and now, for the obvious omens of ill fate, he knew it was his turn. The sails of the mast fluttered with the fierce winds and the high tide waves...

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Pointy edge of the charcoal beast, Scribbling on the dead white papers, Swaying, With his dexterous mind, Brisk in its flamboyant flavors, The echoes of the corporal voices, Preaching mundane lesson, Urging him to stay chained, In their vicious, bounded garrison, But he chooses to sneak away, To the farfetched world, beyond their vision, Unheeded, For he is “The Artist”, Novice, Free like...

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So what are you here for? The Kryptonian asked, While he pulled his red drape near, In the aisle of medical hall, Backache! The Dark Knight uttered, Slipping a prescription on the pharmacist desk, he muttered, You are so powerful with the Kryptonian muscle, Enough to defeat Lex Luther in a simple wrestle, Then what has put you in such a hassle? (Batman...

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For the long lost deity in the pages, Of the epic so told, Ramayan, Tested at the behest of faith, Who were they? Kings? Blind and deaf? To have the lady undressed in the court, The pride of Panadavas, Draupadi, Praying for help, Placed at peril by the cruel, Man? Yes, the deemed creator! And the Helen had wept alone, When the troy...

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                                                      The least judged, broken,  mended, drenched in desire to be heard, screams,  whispers, unshaken, dreamer, ocean dweller,  a sailor, an ink blot, on my psyche's paper, rustling in the storm, not torn, nor crumpled, like a...

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 CAN YOU FEEL THIS It’s my claim to fame the fabric said to the hand I’ll make your heart melt with my extraordinary softness I feel lost without a name I need a designation dashing dapper dare I say svelte the hand’s reply was positively grand Bequeathing a moniker sweet as a kiss From this day forward you’ll be felt -------------------------    ...

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                                           Herald  Looking out the frozen window on this February morning, I hear the Herald of spring on his perch above the garden. His dapper vestment of feathers for official declaration. The red-winged blackbird's shrill announcement of spring, Melodious in the crisp cold...

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(The first half of the story was contributed by a friend, Snigdha, who by herself is an excellent freelance writer) SHE:        The blazing sun shone like a diamond. Its rays were so bright that humans flinched at its shine and in those sunny rays was a man of magnificence. His robes shined as the rays tell on it. His eyes...

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   The farthest you see from your lone deck, The cradling piece of wood on waves, Of no shore, no land but waters, The sailor you are on a voyage, which craves, New routes? New lands? New world? What makes you sail? When the white gulls scream, dives the whale, When the star lit nights guide you, And scorches the ever burning sun,...

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                                                “Sir, would you like to know your day? What your fate holds for you today? I will tell you what the stars want to tell you and you can avoid all the obstructions to reach zenith. Come to me”,...

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From the overgrown fern in the backyard, To the hanging picture on my wall, The uprooted half withered tree, The broken rope of swing, Dusted yet mud swallowed, In the barks of the fell ones, The bird searched for its nest, Crying, Flying, But it could not see which I can, A new bud blossoms on the horizon, Drenched in the rays, whose...

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