Express In Eight

Elegance, uphill task, glued, endeavor, gutsy,

1-21-2021 Prompt words: elegance, above, same
Elegance

One elegant stroke
took my breath away
changed the fate
from defeat to victory
easy, effortless, winsome.
Elegance is grace,
style and astute thinking.
Almost an extinct sight.

1-22- 2021 Prompt words: Difficult or Ten or Settle
Tough task

Ten days to settle my debts
I know it is a difficult deal.
Thankfully, he, the lender
is no flesh-mongering Shylock.
He has no reason to be as
bitter, harsh and vengeful.
I learnt my lesson though.
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."

1-23-2021 Prompt words: Big and Small, or Uphill task or Chocolate
Chocolate, anyone?

Staying away from chocolate
could be an uphill task
Without it lives percolate
to desolation, you can ask
big and small homo sapiens
its delicious taste makes their days
sweeter; be it Easter or Valentine's
A bar of Toblerone wins their hearts away.

1-25-2021 Prompt words: Join or Glue or Duty

Glued

With a strong glue I tried to join
the two pieces together.
They wouldn't stand
the pressure thought I.
As luck would have it
they stuck and held on
like a couple committed to marriage
facing life's challenges on an even keel.


1-26-2021 Prompt: “If you want fly, give up everything that weighs you down” Buddha.
Endeavor


This baggage weighs heavy.
Feelings, thoughts, sentiments,
people, places, actions and
attachments chain me down
in Prometheus' style. The release
he had should be mine too, not
by Zeus’ command but mine own endeavor
to be detached and dispassionate.

1-27-2021 Prompt : use a few words from Daffodils

I gazed and gazed.

The hills afar beckon, set
me on a jocund journey.
I flip and float on airy wings
gazing down the lush green valley
where flowers bloom in the bliss
of solitude, where silent streams
glisten golden hidden from the human eye
where nature relaxes under a blue welkin.

1-28-2021 prompt: story of Ol’ woolen Pants or Farm or Story

Gutsy

Legend has it that Ol' woolen pants"
appears now and again in the woods
not far from the farm where Tom lives.
Gram’s story sent him on curious journey.
Sara, Vicki, Nathan and Bill joined him
midway, marching together they were in
the dark woods looked hither and thither
found none; gutsy kids ended the legend.

1-29-2021 Prompt words: Strand or Explain

A strand of silk

A strand of red silk sari
brought back memories
of wearing it on yester years'
visit to the cool hill station.
I can still see the snowy
caps of the tall mountains
covered in gleeful green
as we sat sipping scented tea.

1-31-2021 Prompt words : Imagination-linger- air- away

Linger long

Some events linger long
in memory like a sweet song.
they lift the spirits and life
is no longer a recurring strife.

Like citing a distant patch of sand
after a long voyage away from land
like the Arabian sky full of jostling stars
Like the lavish beauty of the Swiss vistas.