H21.P21 – Running
Running
Up the stairs,
Along corridors,
Along the beach,
Down the street
Over the bridge
Down the stairs
Running
Physiology, Hour Twenty-One
Physiology
Our prehistoric brethren
knew it was time for bed
when the eldest pack member
began to yawn, setting off a string
of other yawns, as empathy
within a well-matched pack
demands we yawn as well.
Yawns cool our big, overheated
brains and set the stage for deep
sleep once again. We must receive
deep sleep in order to wash our brains
clean of daily waste, cerebro-spinal
fluid clearing away the sludge
our brains produce each day.
Oh sorry, i made a new universe, lets go
i’m never going to see the future
i wish i could
even if i couldn’t participate
i wish i could
to see if we propel past petty squabbles
i wish i could
to see the end of time
i wish i could
to see the inevitable collapse of the universe
i wish i could
to see the “explosion” of a new one
i wish i could
Hour 21–Regressing
71 years old
First time being on the mainland in 13 years
First time in Nebraska
First time meeting some of my wife’s relatives
What seizes my attention?
That’s a rabbit!
A squirrel!
Hour 21 prompt
A SPOON A DAY
The colours of the rainbow
Can be found in our food,
How can anything in life
Ever taste so good?
So many cuisines in the world
The delicacy of each can never be verbally told
Food is made special by the cook,
This can never be taught in a book.
Food is sometimes spicy
And sometimes sweet
Some like it to be cooked with vegetables
And some like to be cooked with chicken and meat
The farmers toil day and night in the field
To provide us with crops which protect us like a shield
Never waste food, given to us by the Lord,
It is like cutting our own heads with a sword
BY SHREYA SURAJ
Hour Twenty-One: Begin and end with “running”
running, that’s how they
name the hot
loo breeze
as it sweeps
over
the land
the desert sand
shimmers
like the
skin of one
running
Hour 16
the ruminative silence of my reflection train window
Athletes village
Hour 9
Running swiftly and steadily
Almost 2 km left to reach school
5 km back and forth, daily
Has made their limbs stronger
The Panchayat is known for it’s contribution of athletes
There are no schools within the radius of 5 km
Every child has to travel far to reach school
Which has made them athletes before they even they know the meaning of an athlete
All the competition eliminated
Nobody can challenge these children
They don’t even need to practice
All they have done throughout their life is running
Hour Twenty-one: Running from Silence
Running her mouth off
Again, Chele knew compulsion
Drove her to fill the silence for
Empty silence would swallow her thoughts
Forcing her to savor the bitter taste of
Soured love and confront her dread of
Aloneness
Preferring to stay stagnant in
Love gone wrong
Choosing to rot in a killing place,
Chele talked of nothing so she could
Unhear silence urging her to start
Running
Hour 21: tanka
Get up, go to work,
I cannot do it for you,
Got to help yourself,
You cannot expect handouts,
Life is hard for everyone.