Sangeetha Kamath

  ArtTales-23 # Prompt--You & I (A collaborative writing with Mithila Peshwe)           A TIMELESS LOVE BERTHA The wind was baying above my cries. The raindrops were viciously ripping my skin. "Ewa! Where are ye?? Ewa….!"   The sheep in the barn were getting restless and grinding their hooves into the mud, bleating in panic. Had a wolf entered here and dragged the tiny lamb away?   I could hear the fading sounds of a feeble, helpless cry in the distance, beyond the hills. They looked formidable in the moonless night, blurred by sheets of pouring rain. The dark, undulating shapes were surrounded by deep forests. The ground had become a claggy slush.   I clutched my cloak at my throat  and pressed down on the hood which kept flying wildly in the gale. My drenched hair was plastered on my face.   If Papa were here, he would have rode his mule to search for Ewa even in the dead of the night. “I m...

        ECHOES Waffles with a dollop of vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of maple syrup is the signature dish of this cafe even today. The outdoor seating has canary yellow chairs now, it was of a different colour back then. Pastel blue.  You take a seat and order two servings. One for you and one for him. You have a wistful look in your eyes as you look around. It's September. An anniversary… Teenage sweethearts you both were once upon a time and this was the place you always frequented for Saturday date nights or birthday celebrations. He had a twinkle in his eyes every time he saw you. You had first met those across a room full of people in Math class…or was it Science? It hardly matters. Your heart  pounded like a million hammers.  Did you know his did too? It did and he had told you. And then, a million butterflies fluttered in your heart… A crisp breeze ruffles your hair across your face, cutting into your re...

                MOTHER-'O-PEARL Your opaline, pearly luminescence bewitched me  That night when you were in your full glory!  The shivery willow trees were dancing silhouettes  In the moonlight cinereal… In the summer air replete with spilling fragrance Of damask roses and blooming jessamine The heady milieu tingled my senses  Even as I reached out for tealights and aromatic candles Your halo cast a moonbow, a silver streak,  Which tiptoed in through my window I gazed and reveled at your multitudinous phases, Crescent or an argentine mass of gibbous  Some days you totally evanescence, only to return and say "I was only gone a while...did you miss me, truly?" You're still my symbolism, my surrealism,  O! Opal of the celestine empyrean! Even a moonless night causes tidal waves  Or towering tsunamis! You always remind me whether I shine radiantly,  Or am eclipsed, or in slices, my presence can't be denied...

 Poattic 17          EkphrasticChallenge  --Ekphrastic is a poem written on a work of art in any poetic form. This poem is inspired by a work of art by Rahul Mhetre   AMARANTHINE She has walked on these pebble-strewn dusty roads Over the hilltops, through grassy fields as they viridescently rolled  Was it her, who caught my attention unawares? A distant memory stirs, dulls…slowly fades Looking up at the old banyan tree, th e gnarled boughs spreading like arms welcoming, There I was, still holding on— a weather-beaten swing--l one, abandoned and creaking in the wayward flurry… Sinuous ropes once adorned with woodbine and marigold Potpourri of fragrances infused with melodies of flutes, sitars… Reminiscent of laughter and echoes from a fragment faraway w hen lasses and maidens came here to celebrate and play Rustling leaves in verdant spring, the wind ruffling their tresses Higher and higher they swung u...