Troll

It’s April of 2023 and Day 20 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme legendary creatures from cultures and folklore and an eight line poem along.

Day 20: Troll

Culture: Nature spirit from Norse Mythology

Description: Trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains, caves etc. They live together in small family units and they are rarely in helpful mind-set for humans. From Norse it was adapted by Scandinavian folklore where they used to live far from humans and are dim witted. They are usually huge and variations have been used is many movies and in numerous culture later as well.

Troll

We all are,
What we are,
Only to those.
A smaller unit.
Far far away
Is our world,
From the real,
Is the very real.

We all behave childish, love-ish, stupid-ish, carefree and all that, among only a closed few. They let us be who we are. They let us dream. And that is where the life happens.

 

Image Reference: By John Bauer – Illustration of Walter Stenström's The boy and the trolls or The Adventure in childrens' anthology Among pixies and trolls, a collection of childrens' stories, 1915., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=92923

tête-à-tête

Its April of 2019 and Day 20 of A to Z Challenge. I am doing Foreign word/phrase a day and 8 line poem for it.

Word/Phrase: tête-à-tête
Language: French
Meaning: a private conversation, a face-to-face meeting

Poem:
the night is dark,
the blanket is brown,
talking me to dreams,
tucking me in sheets,
diving into characters,
defining new roles,
tête-à-tête,
me and my soul.

Interpretation:
A calm and composed talk to within self is the best listener around!

Thoughtful from A to Z

Its April of 2018 and Day 20 of A to Z Challenge. I am doing ‘Emotion’ a day picked from the bag of life, with an 8 line poem and a thought.

T is Thoughtful.

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Poem:
An empty space,
That’s how it starts.
Eyes, ears and mouth,
Start the fill.
If mind is thoughtful,
The thoughts wrap,
And color,
Eyes, ears and mouth.

Thought: