A spider’s web
From thorn to thorn
Silver and empty
Like the space
In the eyes of skin
A snake has shed
Then the leaves shuffles
They no longer part
And the image
Is gone
Tag: nature
Pursuit
Frozen in amber
An ant’s pursuit
It’s doom
Lake
Moonlight flows off his bed
The reflection seeps in a dream
Fern Lake, Lotus pond but a mile long
His feet push the clear waves
Drift through lilies, open up a path
An ode to moonlight.
Wake up early
Wind chimes
Send free
Their catch.
Lazy moonlight
Comforts
An early dawn.
Early Rains
My shadow the only shade;
I run home to open windows.
A crow laughs over seven lanes
And flies seven streets,
A hand through my hair!- it’s just breeze.
The airs cool when the lane dips,
And soft rain drips glass buttons.
Insight
The jade lawn,
The flower’s mud
Slipping deeper
Into myself.
Lighthouse
Sky fish
Lone cloud
Flies its own pace
Giant manta ray.
Insect life
Lady Bug
Holds fast a leaf,
Surfs the wind.
Human weather
On cold, windy, stormy nights,
Windows thump, rattle and beat,
The rain so quickly passed,
Like thuds of a human hearts.
Rijul Ballal 