a momentary pleasure, a desired toy, she was sincerity yet just passing by.

Thanks to Kathy Jacobs Harper Thorpe and Chalkboard team.

chalkA momentary pleasure was originally published in Chalkboard on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

I bloomed too early he bloomed too late to top it all we both had star crossed fate.

Thanks a lot 💝 Kathy Jacob and Harper Thrope and the entire chalk board team for coming up with weekly prompts.

One line poetry prompt 7th October

Different times was originally published in Chalkboard on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

तुम्हारा मुख़्तसर ख़्याल, बहुत अच्छा है,
याद न करना न याद आना, बहुत अच्छा है।

फ़ुर्सत से कभी जो सुलझा रहे थे ज़ुल्फ़ मेरी,
तुम्हारा हर बहाना, क्या कहें, बहुत अच्छा है।

दोस्ती का सच का दावा कर के मुझ पर,
वो यूँ गुम हुए क्या कहें, उज्र सच्चा है।

पूछा होता हाल मेरा, जान जाने से पहले,
इतनी ख़ुद से रंजिशें न होती सच अच्छा है।

हज़ार दर्द दिल में हो नज़रों में हो आब,
आँसू बन बह निकले ग़र तो अच्छा है।

न तुम पूछोगे न हम बताएँगे हाल,
होगा तमाशा सरे आम, अच्छा है।

Image : unsplash Dylan Ferreira

मुख़्तसर ख़्याल was originally published in my tukbandi on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Crying interrupted for three hours, unabashed is liberating, my final goodbye to my unspoken, un mourned past, that never ever caught up on me, finally released.

Prompt on chalkboard ‘goodbye’ by Kathy .Thanks a lot for giving this prompt :)

Image : https://unsplash.com/@joelvalve

Unfettered was originally published in Chalkboard on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

But, I mumbled; you argue too much they said, on issues not meant for your poor little nut, that’s how I got shut up.

One line inspired by Harper Thorpe’s prompt: But

#gaslighting

Thank you Chalkboard team for keeping the prompts coming.

Shot down, shut up was originally published in Chalkboard on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Love crashed on your shore, got nurtured by strangers; your shore was no more.

In response to Arya Dixit’s prompt

Crashing

Image : unsplash.com Carles Rabada

Crashing love was originally published in Chalkboard on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Match your vulnerability with mine,
absorb me in you, erase my fears.
Let me drown in my tears, in your embrace.
Desire … connect… resurrect, give it a name.
This resistance so strong melts with your touch.
All doubts vanish under your gaze.
Meandering words find focus in you, it may be unhealthy yet true.
Hold me safe in your space, let me breathe unfettered and free.
A feeling fragile yet strong, let’s not dissect, let it be.

Vulnerable was originally published in Intimately Intricate on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Flames of greed, power, criminal machinations rampant, while ordinary folks suffer, cower in silence.

Image : Unsplash @srivatsan

In response to Flames — one-line prompt from Shweta.

Hunger games was originally published in Chalkboard on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Clueless, weaving back and forth through fine over lapping boundaries, hope dangling by your look incomprehensible, any brownie points for me as yet?

Image : unsplash @ninjason

Thanks to Francine Fallara for one line prompt ‘dangling’ prompt, Kathy Jacob , Harper Thorpe for their immense patience. Grateful to the entire Chalkboard team for keep our minds well oiled week after week.

Dissonance was originally published in Chalkboard on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Beautiful, strong, frail and wronged, guileless helped, goodness shamed, browbeaten to pieces, for insincere just a game, gathered my bruised pieces to be whole again.

Inspired by Lee_Anne Hancock’s prompt, #mentor for 20th May

Thanks much Kathy Jacobs, Harper Thorpe and the Chalkboard team

Image credit : Unsplash Yoko Saito

Mentoring myself was originally published in Chalkboard on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.