A 100-word of anything that comes to mind

I sit under a tree and think before the words appear on the page like a script where the birds remain quiet as they know I need to think about just about anything that comes to mind, don't ask me how they know what I need to do to reach the word count not many are in favour of, for how do you write about what ails the world or awes the world, and how do you tell a full story in 100 words when you have to keep it short and sweet to have it with some spiced tea.

(This is a continuous story in 100 words I just came up with. On some days, the muse goes missing!)

-shobana-

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The Chef And I

 

What might that be that he carries in that tray

With a smile as wide as the welcoming aroma

That strays towards my senses, the smell is divine

Oh, my greed cannot be

thrust away and berated.

Oh, I wish, I wish that he'd serve me

Not on a platter that matters

Either in steel pots or crystal

I care not for the palette

As long as I taste

His dish in my mouth

that waters

I follow the trail of the platter

and a chef's smiling rendered

'Meat cooked with red wine.'

upon which my hunger

did awaken

a million taste bud sensations

I wait 

to satisfy

my pangs

I creep up on the good man

whose eyes glowed at my injunction

"Now, what have we here?"

He asks.

"A tiny-bodied human, I wait to be fed," I reply

I cannot but thank his kindness

As he filled a plate

with his goodness

And a hearty meal

I made it for my content.

Oh, I sang my way home that day

Not in a million years have I tasted

such relish

like Meat dipped in fine wine

And in that instant, I learned

What it means to be a fine diner.

Haha, I hope you enjoyed this poem. Oh, for the love of great food!

Have a great week ahead.

-shobana-

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Today I want to Imagine

Today, I want to imagine that I was a child again

That the Earth was just as it was

on the day of inception.

That no pollution covered the skies

to spill across the oceans

or

cover the lush lands

and taint

the haven that once was ours.

Today, I want to imagine

that the heat from the wars that permeates our skies

is an illusion

That no matter where I look

the verdant of the lands

were not lost to droughts, or floods, or the ravages of wars.

Today, I want to imagine

Those powerful men who rule the world

Was discussing peace 

instead of the latest weapons of destruction.

Today, Earth told me a secret

that her land and seas

Was no longer ours

The men had decided their fate

long before.

 

God allowed them to.

For the world of ugliness pleased 

their senses more

and with not a care for the Earth

They called Home

Did they seek to keep it safe

From iniquities. 

Today, on Earth Day, I will imagine

that God's Garden of Eden

It was what I had imagined as a child.

-shobana-

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Under the April Rain-Soaked Sky

When in April the showers did spring

a blight of raindrops

they fall

in a garden 

masked

by mists and dew

of the froid.

That morning

in the early hours

It rained.

Je t'aime, je t'aime 

les mirages créés par la pluie

sont à couper le souffle

L'herbe est inondée

sous le ciel saturé de pluie

Les fleurs dansent

Bien qu'elles se courbent

le poids des gouttes de pluie

est lourd

L'herbe en contrebas

est cachée

Sous un ciel d'avril saturé de pluie.

The flowers, they dance

Though they stoop

the weight of the raindrops

are heavy

The grass below 

is hidden

Under an April rain-soaked sky.

-shobana-

It's raining now after a blight of hot days,

What a relief from the heat.

Nature would be smiling.

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The Flowers that captured my sight one day

Oh, what a gorgeous ensemble of flowers

I knew them to be wild

reckless and carefree

Were they the ones that brought forth colours

on a blank canvas

So we reimagine

them 

in the wilderness

gone astray?

their brief breath

their last

Why do they wither away?

I summoned them back one day

when the winds howled

a distant foray

Neither the colours nor the season did I foresee

For when the flowers fade away

the way

 they did 

in the wilderness

They lost their way.

-shobana-

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Gaya Bay's Guests of Honour

Gaya Bay, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah

The choppy waters of Gaya Bay

bustled with boats of different shapes and sizes,

Their engines broke the silence of a new morning

while the rough oars partook

In a race to the island,

where the corals and tiny critters

lived

on a rocky bed of seafloor.

The nudibranch lay camouflaged between those corals and sponges

They inhabited a colony on the seabed

They were remarkably endowed with beauty.

Speed boats raced with passengers on board

Turning the calm blue sea into choppy waters.

Even so, the waters looked untroubled.

The sun is hidden from view

The sea and its wayfarers 

The guests of honour.

Where a solitary seagull flew

amid a soft wind blowing.

-shobana-

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