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What days are these? Each day comes with figures surging of people afflicted and dying. One cyclone devastated lands and another followed soon. The earth rumbles and trembles too. Now only a deluge is awaited. And young people full of life and reaping success taking their lives ! My heart trembles. We as a human…

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS June 13/2020

"Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “nail.” Use it as a noun or a verb." As I sit at home in extended lockdowns I spend more time with myself. Trying to find the essence of life,the ' I ' inside me that had got lost somewhere. And trying to nail the truth…

Lockdown Day 62

The new normal code is now inculcated in our systems. Days roll on in a chronological sequence but time has stood still. We have done all new things possible to while away time. The carefree mingling and rambling seems to have been consigned to history. The surging crowds have been deluged in the invisible surge.…

Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 177 #SynonymsOnly

My synonyms for Transition and Harmony are Change and Peace. I have written a Gogyohka Peace returned to Nature's realm Shrivelled beauty now rejuvenated An apocalyptic change ushered The surge of humanity is dammed As a new era advents. Via: https://colleenchesebro.com/2020/05/12/colleens-2020-weekly-tanka-tuesday-poetry-challenge-no-177-synonymsonly/

Lockdown Day 51

So many days have passed and the storm has not blown over yet. We are in the eye of storm as numbers surge. Life is going to be different and difficult and restrained. And there are going to be more hungry mouths and poor. We are at a war but the enemy is unseen. We…

Life stalled

A day passes, All into nothingness, Life stalled, Stupefied, Frozen in time, Doing something, But nothing. World outside, Moving by, You watch inanimated. A fear gnaws, Wary of people around, Afraid to tarry, Or anything to carry, Scared to touch, And feel a warm hug, Trust gone for a toss, Doubting all that was loved.…

Lockdown Day 44

The days are being ticked off and the numbers are many. It is just like floating in a lacuna with no sense of time. Days begin and end in the same manner in a rhythmical clockwork mechanism. The new normal has become abohorrent. I rant to myself to let out steam. I go to the…

Lockdown Day 40

Days and nights are going on in a continuous roll of anonymity. I remember a childhood game called Statue. A person used to shout statue and everyone used to freeze into immovable stupor. It seems a tiny and invisible virus has frozen everything into inanimate mode. The notion that Time does not stand still has…

Lockdown Day 35 & 36

Days are going by. Numbers are rising. The fear that lockdown may be extended is in the air. Tempers are rising and people are edgy. Yesterday there was a fight in the Society Whatsapp group. People were complaining about cats and dog in the complex that have been there for past several years. And the…

Lockdown Days 32;33;&34

I could not put down the last three days because I had slipped and hurt myself. So many days in confinement make me wonder of the times when I used to step out at the slightest excuse. I loved just walking through sometimes bustling and sometimes empty roads watching the avid shoppers and noisy shopkeepers…