May 30, 2016 Flash Fiction for the Aspiring Writer, Original Short Story
Word Count: 150 words of text, exactly
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Thanks to Priceless Joy, for hosting Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers,
and to Barbara Taylor for that very moving photograph!
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Thanks to Priceless Joy, for hosting Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers,
and to Barbara Taylor for that very moving photograph!
Fire and Ice
©May 30th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
There is a shadow on her heart as she sits here, alone on the bench, looking across the river.
There’s a twin shadow on the city which she loves, and which she will never visit again.
Fifteen years ago, the debris of humanity rained down among fire and ash and smoke.
A memory smites her heart: A man at ease, falling through the sky.
Who he was she will never know – but she knows why he fell, for, if given a choice, she would choose to fly.
She does not wish to know his name. She knows her own true love hadn’t returned home that day. Had he been up there?
Amidst the stinging winds of February, with crunched-up snow at her feet, a river of ice runs through her veins.
And though her warm cheeks are wet, her face burns like flame, and her eyes mirror smoke, she shivers.
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May 30, 2016 Original Poetry, The Daily Post
Photograph©Vijaya Sundaram, 2016
Blanketed
©May 30th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
Solitary cloud in an empty sky
Empties itself of air
Arbitrary crowd that an empty eye
Empties itself to stare.
Blank is the mind that stares up high
Looking to find a thought
Rank is the mind that looks down low
Looking to blind a spot
Look straight ahead, not up or down
And make yourself quite still
Don’t seek to find, just speak a mind
Whose blankness will not spill.
Blanketed in perfect peace,
You’ll sit in ease and find release!
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In response to The Daily Post's Daily Prompt: Blank
Tags: #Blank, #DailyPrompt, #OriginalPoetrybyVijayaSundaram, #TheDailyPost
May 30, 2016 Original Poetry
Backyard Jewels
©May 30th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
Raindrops glittering.
Brilliant diamonds light up trees.
And tender young ferns.
Laughing pink hearts sway.
Fir needles clutch lucent gems.
Burning bush shines green!
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Tags: #haiku, #Nature, #OriginalPoetrybyVijayaSundaram, #RaindropsonPlants