Qilin

It’s April of 2023 and Day 17 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 17: Qilin

Culture: Dragon-ox-deer hybrid from Chinese mythology

Description: Qilin are usually depicted throughout a wide range of Chinese art, at times with their bodies on fire. In modern times, they have also been fused with unicorns. It is said to appear with the imminent arrival or passing of a sage or illustrious ruler. They can be of any color or multi-color.

Qilin

You step through it,
Become one,
You could be one,
And only one.
You could be many,
Many in one,
Or one of many.
You, Be.  

There is this unique sense of feeling when you become one. Being is all that matters. Be a fire. A house of many.

Image Reference: CC SA 1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38012

Little I Do

little do I know
of the world
little do I care
to the world.
little is what
we do know
of each other
but,
in those little
is my world.

When you are surrounded with people who make all the sense in the world, your every single day is a bliss!

Apricity

It’s April of 2022 and Day 01 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Wordy Wonders.” I am selecting words that have deeper and graceful meanings, from across the globe and an eight-line poem along.

Day 01 – Apricity

Origin: Latin

Meaning: Warmth of sun in winter

Poem

All I need is,
You
For me,
Close enough
To hear the heartbeat,
To feel the breath,
The comforting scent,
My Apricity.

Sometimes, that someone can send the vibes of warmth, the warmth that is virtual and be as soothing as the real.

Japan – Anime

It’s April of 2021 and Day 10 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Travel the World.” I am visiting countries from A to Z and presenting stories with 8 line poems.

Day 10 Country: Japan

Anime is used to refer to all animated works irrespective of genre and English dictionaries define ‘Anime’ as animation originating in Japan. Animation in Japan began in early 20^th century. A claim for the earliest Japanese animation is Katsudō Shashin, for which the creator is unknown. Anime and Manga are popular worldwide – One Piece, Naruto, My Hero Academia etc are some of popular anime series that has got a huge fan base. As of 2016, Japanese anime accounted for 60% of the world’s animated television shows. Below is an image from Momotaro: Sacred Sailors (1945), the first feature-length anime film.

Credits: By Shochiku / directed by Mitsuyo Seo – Screenshot from the film., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3134684

Poem:

To be amazing,
To do amazing,
You don’t need,
A group,
A support,
A pat.
All you need,
Is YOU.

The lessons from Anime are nothing less than any arrangement of life inspirations. They take us on a cultural and inspiring ride showing us how our attitude can shape us.

Domino Effect

Its April of 2020 and Day 04 of A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing Metaphors. Be it a movie, song, painting, book, idiom, etc. I plan to give a perspective to it with an explanation and a 8 line poem. 

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Metaphor: Domino Effect

A domino effect is a chain reaction. It is a cumulative effect of one event setting off a chain of similar several events. I am sure everyone has seen the video of falling row of dominoes. The term domino effect is used both to imply that an event is inevitable or highly likely and conversely to imply that an event is impossible or highly unlikely.

It has inspired several fields and domains. Mathematical Induction works on the same principle. There is also a movie named ‘Domino Effect’ which talks of the chain of consequences on families worldwide if global economy comes to sudden halt. There have been events to set the world records. But, here, in my poem, we talk love!

Poem:
Starts with nothing,
Then through the words,
Dust, shadow and breeze,
Hot-lukewarm,  lukewarm-cold,
Through the wet eyelashes,
Calling to be in the arms.
You, a domino effect.
Please. Come back.

A love calling the loved. Not just during the lockdown. Maybe lockdown is just a metaphor for everything else.

Melting

It seems I am
M
E
L
T
I
N
G

Not sure,
Into you or
Along with you.

 

If I Were You

The grey has blackened,
No white,
The memories have faded,
Fireflies,
Your scent is gone,
You should be too,
But then you stand,
With a dark song.

It’s a pitch black sky,
There I walk,
Unseen.
Unheard.

If I were you,
There would be a star.

With You!

With you,
I have found,
ALL those,
Which I had never lost.

And those ALL,
Now,
Define me.

Deeper than ‘Deep Down’

Note:  
‘I’ here is not ‘I’ like it actually means. It’s more of every kind of ‘I’, if you know what I mean. A very abstract metaphor. It could be a person, bird, bag, rain etc. Anything. Just anything. I am not talking of anything here that is way direct and easily understandable. I prefer to say that it is generalization of several contexts.

I see things that actually I don’t intend to. So does the words. I am not aware of the context so I decide not to come up with any conclusions. I am still happy. Because hey, there are always reasons to celebrate. You restore that in me.

I sleep at times with leaking thoughts (okay, I am full). I need arms that wrap me around to comfort. Those arms that would mean more than anything else in the world and beyond every material comforts. A hug that would be as soothing as a heart connecting lyrics. But it’s imaginary because currently you are beyond physical reach. You are not very far. But far enough from the expectations.

I have desires. They are not infinite or beyond. They are small and reachable. Yet they seem to move far. I want to blame you. I almost want to. I don’t know what stops me. I stop. I know it’s not evil to have small desires.

Sometimes I take bath singing fun songs. That I do because at times bath goes too much of sob and cry. The running tap water saves me from a bunch of things.  Bath is also sometimes a quick negligible routine. You don’t have any role here. I still bring you up and complain/compliment.

I have worries and I have been workaholic. I feel work eats up my worry. It does not happen so. Rather it makes work tedious and worry-some.  I think of you and pretend to assure myself everything is alright.

There is this crowd and the crowd is so complex that it has no representation. But that crowd does not make any sense to me. There is this one tiny thing in that complex and that is all matters. For no reason, in that tiny thing, you are there.

No one heard me cry. No one would understand what I am going through. And it is very basic that no one needs to understand that. It’s not necessary. It’s integral part of me and I decide the flow. I put pretty faces and pace and what not. I tell you everything is beautiful. You smile and say things are beautiful because of you. I don’t want to but I accept. As a matter of fact, I don’t have any argument or proof to come to any conclusion. I decide to agree on certain things with no basis.

I want to be in a zone where there is loud music, woofer and beats that mask every pain. Then I want to forget everything and sing my own song, my own lyrics. I don’t know what role you have there. Just be there.

I don’t know what it takes,
I don’t know how,
I don’t know where it leads,
I don’t know when,
I don’t know what I don’t know,
But I know you and,
You are there.

I very much know that, that ‘You’ is part in me. A part from me. A better version of me that keeps me going ahead. Thank ‘you’. You are doing an incredible job out there.

Seasonal We

This post is written for Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Challenge Number 103.  The words given for this week are summer and fun.

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look who’s having fun,
in summer, winter, rainy,
question, answer, you.

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The last line might seem a little confusing. What it all means is ‘You might ask this question and the answer is You’