Jul 21, 2016 Free Verse, Original Poetry, The Daily Post
The Eternal Seduction of the Unfettered Mind
©July 21st, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
Birds sail the air like fast boats.
Ferns wave, dreamy and ancient.
Quietly, a mushroom grows
At the foot of a fir tree.
The Now seduces me.
I watch with half-closed eyes
At the post-noon languor
Of my backyard.
I know there are chores
Piling up, and a garden
Awaiting my ministrations
And a life that needs sorting
Papers and plans, and plants.
I know I should be an adult,
And engage in busy-ness.
But I cannot, not now.
A cup of water like a benediction
A book before me, interrupted by this poem,
This computer blinking cursorily at me,
That backyard sodden with sunlight,
All of these drive thoughts of tomorrow
Into the dustpan of blankness.
I lose myself in the Seeing
The Hearing, the Being
Of this world around me.
Could this mean
I am carefree,
At least, for now?
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(With apologies for echoing the title, “The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” one of the best titles I’ve ever come across in film.)
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Jul 21, 2016 Friday Fictioneers, Original Flash Fiction
Word Count: 100 words of text, exactly
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
Perfugium
©July 21st, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
“What is that thing, Sire?” clicked Secondus.
Primus, squinting through the periscope at the watery world around them, clicked out a reply.
They’d been stranded in the trenches of the ocean world. Air supplies had diminished, as the plants in their craft died. They’d risen to the surface just in time.
Their craft bobbed nearer. The water fell away; the drowned land rose into view. There was no sign of life.
Primus quailed when he saw the figure holding its torch.
“They must have been giants,” he rasped.
They discerned some writing below, but no matter.
They’d finally found refuge.
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With many thanks to our Super-Muse and Fairy Blog-Mother, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, for hosting Friday Fictioneers week after week. Thanks, also, to Jan Wayne Fields for the beautiful photograph.
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