They Tried to Curb Her Ambition

This post is in response to Sonya’s 3LinesTale in one hundred words.

They built the fence to cage her ambitions,

Little did they notice her passion in her chest emblazoned,

Those poor souls trying to clip her wings thought a mere fence will curb her vision?

For a moment

photo by Tyler Nix via Unsplash

This post is for Sonya’s Three Line Tales, Week 136

For a moment nothing else mattered, alone, the world stood still,
Gentle breeze caressed her face, soothing, setting sun lighted up the hill,
Come what may she will face the world, becalmed, she swore to climb uphill.

 

 

To Be ot Not To Be: Three Line Tales

This post is for SONYA’s Three Line Tales week 112.

photo by Sam Carter via Unsplash

To be cloned or not to be, that’s the question
Do I have a say if I want to live in perpetuity
Sheared or grilled, nightmare of Groundhog Day

 

Unrequited Love : Three Line Tales, Week 107

In response to Sonya’s Three Line Tales photo prompt

 

Strings attached long broken, servitude rejected
Roses one day a year does not redeem love unrequited
She has flown the coop, liberated

As darkness beckons- A Haiku:Three Line Tales, Week 95

Resplendent sun rays

Oblivious to the world

Hide sinister thoughts

photo by Tobias Keller via Unsplash

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Three Line Tales-Week 95

Bai is there : Three Line Tales, Week 94

Life did not treat her fair, working day and night as a maid and a family to take care
Even if she was sick, she had to work to earn her wages so that her children could eat
Water tap running dry, no issues, to carry water from the well Bai* is there

photo by Scott Umstattd via Unsplash

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* Bai (or didi etc.) – a generic name by which maids are called in many Indian households

Three Line Tales-Week 94

Contemplating Future: Three Line Tales, Week 93

Contemplating what could have been
A future now shrouded in foggy mystery
Life partner lost forever, a life to live in misery

photo by Alex Iby via Unsplash

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Three Line Tales-Week 93

Day of Reckoning : Three Line Tales, Week 92

Sparkling lights, burning bright, lighting up the sky, hopes are high

Million strong, hoping to right the wrong, shouting we belong

Darkness underneath all encompassing, it’s still too far for the day of reckoning

photo by gn dim via Unsplash

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Three Line Tales-Week 92

Tears beneath the Glare:Three Line Tales, Week 79

photo by Arnaud Mesureur via Unsplash

Glare of the bright lights and hoorahs mask the pain and tears behind masochistic mask
Modern day gladiators march on to their untimely demise for the pot of gold
While emperors play the fiddle paying lip services to cavernous greed of the proletariat

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ThreeLineTales: Week 79

Three Line Tales, Week 78: Climbing Nowhere

Ambitious upward mobility, climbing ladders, glass ceilings to be cracked
Frustration builds up, banging head on walls time and again
Stairway to nirvana blocked, climbing nowhere, career levelling off

photo by Mahdis Mousavi via Unsplash

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Three Line tales, week 78