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BALLAD OF GAIA


This is a poetry of 16 lines and 180 words without the alphabet 'E' in any word.


On an unfamiliar turf in a hot air balloon 

I was sailing through a cyan sky chasing a faint moon 


Oh look! Swans of ivory-gray, hoards of mallards and flocks of swallows happily migrating !

A madrigal strain from an ocarina of a wood nymph is so poignant and haunting 


Honking and cackling, a farrago of cacophony

Sounds of fauna in an utopian harmony…


Crisp air floats down from mountains and hillocks  

Fragrant whiffs from jacarandas and magnolias rising amid a patch of shamrocks


A gust of wind jolts my hot air balloon a notch sky-high

From land and country so far away…sigh! 


Glinting with sun rays, bubbling brooks twin with a sinuous cord strung with cabochon 

Rippling and gushing in woods and in plains, a braiding vista of blooms orchids and lilacs is a paragon


Rocky crowns of snowy mountains loom gargantuan and tall

Against an apricot awning, a dusking sun throws long shadows across moorlands pink and coral


Daylight is dimming and twilight is rising

North Star puts on a show on an indigo canvas as millions of diamonds start twinkling!

©️ Sangeetha Kamath

Pic Courtesy: Image by Enrique from Pixabay

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