You join dots that glint like the tips of a tantrum
to form alphabets that are onesies dangling
from pink plastic clips of lisped words
fluttering into sentences like shape shifting wind
settling into a sepia memory like winged butterflies
on a flower.
Can we spend some more time, here, together?
~ In response to the Peter's Prompt at dVerse
watch the mind for five seconds,
watch it watching itself
like an alert sentinel
realisation pierces through
the parallax of demands like a diamond cutter
shredding shearing
the flab flak
of the unwanted the unneeded
convoluted ingrained patterns of
thinking thoughts
the residue of purity unadulterated consciousness
decants into a moment of
meaning that spotlights existence
and everything becomes clear
sharp like the crackle of fire
~Written in response to the Brendan's Earthweal Weekly Challenge : Deep Time
The glitter of gold is questioned
Groupthink has had its say
One invisible living atom quietens
The uproar of invincible economies
Honesty is looked upon as a hydra-headed handicap
And values morph into gibberish fit for the sidelines
Although nothing is a surprise anymore
Nothing is a mystery
Hope remains
That kindness will prevail
That gentleness will proceed to work out a way
That rules will be followed and roles will be respected
While acknowledging the transience of
Perishable life in a scarfed paradise
~Written in response to the prompt Writers' Pantry #54: New Dawn at Poets and Storytellers United
My poem titled 'The Destination' has been published in Buddhist Poetry Review. You can read it here at https://www.buddhistpoetryreview.org/archive/vol-three-issue-three/preeth-ganapathy
Hello,
Happy to share with you a couple of my recent publishing successes.
Willawaw Journal published a poem that I had written - 'The Flourescent Orange Swimsuit' in their Fall Issue. You can read it here - http://willawawjournal.com/category/journal/fall-2020-issue-10/page/3/
A piece of micro fiction that I wrote was published in one of my favourite magazine - 101Words.org. https://101words.org/divine-justice/
A poem that I had written in response to their prompt - 'Figures on a landscape' by Bertram Booker has been published in The Ekphrastic Review. It's up at https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/ekphrastic-writing-responses-bertram-brooker.
Happy writing! Happy reading!
In this blog post, I share with you a couple of my pieces that got published recently.
First up, another of my ten word stories found a home at Potato Soup Journal:
http://potatosoupjournal.com/how-she-fell-in-love-with-him-by-preeth-ganapathy/
A poem that I had written in response to their monthly prompt has been published in Visual Verse Magazine :
https://visualverse.org/submissions/cerulean-freedom/
A piece of prose that I had written for the Prose 500 contest organised by Wordweavers has been selected under their 'featured' category.
https://www.wordweavers.in/2020/08/prose-500-2020-winners-featured-writers.html
Happy writing, happy living!
Happy to share that two of my poems – ‘Family History’ and ‘The
Taj Mahal’ have been published in Voices on the Wind Poetry Journal.
You can read them at http://www.voicesonthewind.net/family82.html
and http://www.voicesonthewind.net/taj82.html
