Sipra's Diary : Halloween Day: " Trick or Treat" [ From my debut "Eyes Are Notorious"]

Title: " Trick or Treat"

 It really happened  once  

 In  the small neighborhood  of Texas.

Richard came to his far -relative grandma

With his New yorker friend Nicholas 

To give  grandma  a treat  of surprise 

by unexpected  sudden visit !

 

Reaching near, Richard noticed the  house dark 

But it was lighted up as soon as the door was knocked;!'

Ever  smiling grandma welcomed ,"Why are you  so late ?  Their faces were hidden by  the  mask  they held

"yes , sure" With mysterious smile , she replied; 

Following  her  up  to the dining  hall they noticed  with  awe

Arrangement of  what a grand party ! in this house, rarely  he saw .

Food flowers,  finest  crockary  and a pumpkin for decor!

Just then Richard heard another  door -bell !

He saw  neighborhood  uncle Mr. Lockwood 

Standing  at the door front, he interrogated:

"I came curiously to see who has lighted the house?"

 He enquired  hesitatingly ,"how do you get the sad news ?"

Sadly he  conveyed , "Mrs swift passed away 

Yesterday evening ,Without any suffering ! 

Just after  cremation rituals I'am now coming!"

He handed over the house-key before leaving,

To  bewildered Richard  in tension and agony ;

No sooner, the  light went off 

Keping them in the  house in eerie   dark!

Looking back once again to the dark, 

Richard came out with Nicholas.

While  locking the door,   grandma's pet  black cat 

Darted inside,  declaring "Me-Own!"

Sipra's Diary:# Hamilton Choc: Work that is hated most And//work loved most

 

   #(Hamilton :Hated most to do  and thing love to do)

   W105//L=16    LAUNDRY   sipra Roy

 I hate to do laundry on every weekend

 From Friday night it starts to bug my brain,

I can’t avoid ,as I love  fresh clothes   after shower

Not only the clothes, but also bed sheet and  pillow-cover!

To maintain that is really like royal luxury here!

 

I love to spend time with computer 

But started   not with love but necessity.

My relationship with any modern devices 

Is complex bundle of  love -hate,& curiosity.

 

Very soon my new love with computer, 

I-pad I-phone that invade and capture 

Quickly the advanced land with wealth and power

Became a headache  and I want to go back  my old buddy : pen and paper!

 

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Sipra'S diary:Prompt from Chocolate(Hamilton Project) Oct29/2022>"Broken Heart"(Poem)

 #1.   Broken Heart  Sipra Roy          W=.108       //L=20.                                     

Broken heart ?A phrase of great literal fallacy

Unless heart is made of glass metal or plastic

An array of cards in gallery, 

With the image of oozing red heart 

Pierced by arrow at the center :

Symbols  juvenile romantic love in flavour!

But random  use of  the image  turns

It cheap, naive,  niche  and  ridiculous ;

Fails to impress  as 'creative art' or romantic love ;

But True love  from wounded heart  with  oozing blood 

Creates lyric for  memorable love-songs that impact life-long!

Is Broken heart taken for metaphor of intense emotion?                                       

Sipra Roy.

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Sipra's Diary: "Weird frustrating experience with the whims of digital device:computer!

Something wrong in writing my "blog". I generally write at night, when there is silence my inner world becomes eloquent : I can hear my inner voice and I visualize the events larking in the dark corner of caves in my memory lane . But some weird experince in Writing -BLOG is that THE all my writing pieces are in scibbles // or in code so niether Ican read nor I can write Disgusting ,Utterly DISGUSTING!!! I will. go back to pen # paper. And from Now ! I have so much to divulge now in writing which  I will forget  later.

Sipra,s Diary: FSPA: OPAP>. LAGNIAPPE

           LAGNIAPPE:   Sipra Roy.

 

 In the new-age  of 'use and throw' society 

'Lagniappe' is a  forgotten term in prosperity,

.:  

 Unless we search meaning in the dictionary!

  

Bygone are those days of simple  life 

When small gift brought big smile!

In this age of extravagance, spilled-over-

Garbage box with  left over from the upper class 

Wait  for disposal  as "trash"to  ignoble mass;

The excess  as  'refuge'  from extravagant  class;  

Is sumptuous than  mere 'lagniappe' of back-days! 

        It is an universal  fact :

Interest is sweeter than the capital

So   'lagniappe'  was meant   for extra joy; 

But  if greed is too big to exceed the cornucopia 

Then  expectation  may  turn  into  frustration !

                                                                                   Lagniappe=   means "extra" [like gift]

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Sipra's Diary:Urmila's Treasury>. "Secret Enemy" Oct. 2022>Lines 23/W155Sent Nashville Review.

 

Urmila’s  treasury:POEM 

 

#prompt given by CHOC.  WATER >  PROJECT FIND

 

----Find out  the personal dragons who hold  you  progress and how did  you overcome    them by your courage and  wisdom.

 

  SECRET ENEMY

W>. 155 // L >23

 

I overhaul my life in search of secret dragon

Who keeps me restless by chasing all along 

I dissect the emotional sphere layer by layer

In the abyss of solitary lab of my mind, 

Surprisingly, detected the larking beasts in me: hope and fear!

 

Scary fear in thorny cactus remains embracing me

While opposite side of dark tunnel flickering

Light of enchanting 'hope' mysteriously beckoning

To allure me by dream and flame of new life!

 

Driven by failure frustration, ambition or anger,

Bewildered   ego sometimes aggressive but 

Mostly submissive, optioned to surrender

Like a coward. I never struggled  to win over!

 

I survived by neither courage nor wisdom, 

But surrendering to social culture and custom

To mute fear or hope: two opposites forces

Waves of time tackles the battle to keep balance

Like a snail I sheltered  under the shell of patience!

Sometimes surrender or patience are  best weapons 

To win over the emotional dragons !!

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Sipra's Diary: Brand of New York

                                             Brand Of NewYork

What is the "Brand" of New York?

Just after  lightening it flushed in my mind :it's diversity.  

 Brand is a fascinating term of twenty-first century, though originated long ago. But in olden days it was associated specially  with fancy materials like watches, cars, crockery, costume & accessories perfume etc: a status symbol of upper echelon of society .

Industrial Age created revolutionary change in society by making luxury  goods  available to middle class. Middle class bulged in size in civilized advanced countries, which approves healthy sign for a land . It is this middle class who sustain and hold the  tradition,  culture, intellectual nutrition and value system of a country in given time .

Free trade, tourism,   digital communication, demographic change & "globalization" in totality is another giant leap  in modernization.  

Even the land/country  themselves also claims "Brand". Some country attracts people as tourists for cynical beauty or historical importance, while  others as  health resorts  or for commercial products or businesses . 

Diversity along flexibility is  the "Brand" of New York:  Truly "Land of the free!" is the background  tune of New York! "All roads lead  to Rome" is now replaced  by  'Everyone's dream  streams to spout in the land of the free'...............

An excerpt from my own poem:-

                                   " New York or Nueva York!

                                      We all love you from the heart!

                                      What mystical aptitude  you have

                                      To magnet the vast crowd 

                                      To keep  enchanted in you?

                                      Dream, destiny, fame or  fortune?  ....

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                                                                           Sipra Roy