season

For Nisha, Mariyam, Rushali, Varsha and Bless <3

Also dedicated to my fav music channel on YouTube Mammal Man <3

season

 if they stay through your spring blossoming,

 and while the colours slowly bleed out of your leaves

  and you're left with scars of senescence

 and when you're stripped and raw in your january winters;

 then they're worth keeping. 

A/N: Comments?

school

For Swathy, 

who misses school much more than I do.

I miss school.

I miss morning assemblies, and hymns.

I miss march past and dramatics practice.

I miss seeing the quadrangle filled with with screaming children.

I miss choir practice, and exchanging lunches.

I miss sneaking food under the desk, and lime juice from the canteen.

I miss tests and record work, and walking in the corridor.

I miss the whispered secrets, paper notes and the smell of sharpened pencils.

I miss the friends I made, the memories we created.

prayer

I pray that-

 you learn to live:

 and learn to let go;

 I hope that your heart

 does not cloud your judgement,

 and that you learn

 freedom has limits:

  and that true beauty is in the

 kindness in your eyes,

 the curve of your smile;

 I hope your feet find the road you are meant to walk;

  and that your heart finds the stories you are meant to finish.

preview!

black haired,

 hazel eyed whisper of a girl,

  with ink in her veins

 and a dandelion soul

A/N: This is the newest piece I'm working on! Do give me feedback <3

queen

{ she was a guarded fortress

 stone hearted, icy eyed queen

 but she had forgotten that

 wallflowers can grow through rock

 and grow over despair }

assurance

I found my weaknesses while I was

 looking for my strengths;

 I found pain when I was looking for joy;

 and that's when I learnt that you will

 never truly know strength unless you've been weak;

 you will never know  joy until you've felt pain. 

sunflower~

sunflower

 like the sunflower;

 with her crown turned towards the sun,

 her soul anchored in strength

 feeding on eternal light;

her scepter pointed to the sky. 

A/N: This one is full of metaphors :) I hope this gets to you <3

if

If the whole world was blind, who would you impress?

~Boonaa Mohammed

if

 if the world was blind

 would you still paint pictures of love?

 if the world was deaf;

would you still sing of hope?

a single shard

For Ziona

a single shard

 when will you realise

 that even broken shards of pottery,

 unfinished verses of poetry,

 unsung songs and

 unread stories

 are reminiscent of the potter,

 the poet,

 the composer and

 the author

 of your faith?

ocean

ocean

 when you feel hollowed out,

 remember that

 empty shells hold the ocean.

time

time

 trusting time is fruitless

 we either have too little,

 too much or

 none at all. 

father

my father 

my father showed me love:

 in the yellows of orchids,

 in the scars of a learning heart 

 he saw who I could be,

and not who I was.

mother

my mother

 my mother is behind the woman in me

 she is in the kindness of my heart

 but also in the fire burning in my eyes;

 she in the gold fillings of my cracked soul,

 in the silver linings of my dark clouds.

quotes: part two

snippets of thoughts

~
 her mind was like the oceans

 unreachable depths and crashing waves

 buried treasure and sunken ships;

 sailing ships and swimming sharks,

 pretty pearls and pink coral

~

  buried in her mother's womb

 she will never see the beauty of life;

 because she never had one.

~

 she was a free spirit.

 in the rustling of the leaves; 

 the crashing waves

 and the crackling flames.

 she was everywhere.

~

A/N: Do tell me what you like best <3

Butterflies: Tree Yellow (Gandaca harina distanti)

Details:

Name: Tree Yellow (Gandaca harina distanti)

Location: Kilpauk, Chennai.

Time photographed: 8:29 am, 30th of September 2017.

Camera: Olympus SZ-16

A/N: The photographs belong to me, and cannot be used without permission.

Millipedes: South Indian Millipede

Details:

Name: South Indian Millipede

Location: Kilpauk, Chennai.

Time photographed: 8:29 am, 30th of September 2017.

Camera: Olympus SZ-16

A/N: The photographs belong to me, and cannot be used without permission.

Dragonflies: Ditch Jewel (Brachythemis contaminata)

Details:

Name: Ditch Jewel (Brachythemis contaminata)

Location: Kilpauk, Chennai.

Time photographed: 8:45 am, 30th of September 2017.

Camera: Olympus SZ-16

A/N: The photographs belong to me, and cannot be used without permission.

Dragonflies: Coral-tailed Cloud Wing (Tholymis tillarga) (Male)

Details:

Name: Coral-tailed Cloud Wing (Tholymis tillarga) (Male)

Location: Kilpauk, Chennai.

Time photographed: 8:50 am, 30th of September 2017.

Camera: Olympus SZ-16

A/N: The photographs belong to me, and cannot be used without permission.

amazon

                                                 amazon

soft velvet, fresh grass 

 strength and beauty,

 warriors with

 the strength of the forest

 new life, old skin,

 dark and light

 mould and old ivy

 moss and mushrooms

 new chances, new leaves

 frogs and bee eaters

 from the earth

 and back.

Butterflies: Lime Butterfly (Papilio demoleus)

Details: 

Name: Lime Butterfly (Papilio demoleus)

Location: Kilpauk, Chennai.

Time photographed: 5:00 PM, 24th of July & 12th of August 2017

Camera used: Olympus SZ-16

A/N: The photographs belong to me, and cannot be used without permission.