War and Pieces #Barathon Day 4

I’m using this picture and creating a Toy Story kind of poem for the prompt: My beauty cast a spell on him...

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Of Ice and Men #Barathon Day 3

Mita’s workplace ensured that there wasn’t a dull moment around her. True, the occasional dry lulls made her cringe, retrospect at her...

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Life of Pie #Barathon Day 2

She hated herself. She hated her parents. She hated everyone! What had she done to deserve this? Why did she have to...

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The Fault in our Stares #Barathon Day 1

They sometimes talk too much And sometimes, tad too little They are comforting on occasion And on other times, commit treason The...

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Promise #BarAThon

Two innocent souls, bonded together By love, relation and an unspoken commitment Brought together by destiny Held together by compassion, belonging They...

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Wishful Thinking #BarAThon

A checkered shirt unbuttoned halfway through, an intentionally mutilated ragged and torn pair of jeans, a hairstyle ripped off from his favourite...

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Tiny shoes #BarAThon

“Were these mine too?” A Jr asked amusingly in between guffaws. My third trimester had just begun. I was at Mom’s and...

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Caught red-handed #BarAThon

They had closely done a recce of the area. They had marked the locations carefully and identified the camouflage points. Once there,...

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