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

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

23~10

what is love?

a tiny kitten

giant meows

found by you

broken leg 

snuggling you

such soft paws

fluffy tail

surrounds you 

while you both sleep

your arms

gently entwine

her too