Minisons galore for April 20 TSL Napowrimo's prompt

 Minison 1

We live fourteen

April 20th Prompt by Reena Prasad: write minisons, the form, TSL's Napowrimo freely themed. Rebel Minisons. (4 and 5 need to be reworked)

Take 1.

We live fourteen.

Take 2.

If

the camera

never lies, is

that why her pic

gets more love than?

Take 3

Title: Found on Lay's cover and altered to suit my purpose minison (not a part of the minison)

Authentic chees -

Take 4

Fourteen letters

of the alphabet

Fourteen words

Fourteen lines

Fourteen lives

Fourteen breasts

Fourteen wives

Fourteen loves

Fourteen deaths

Fourteen bodies or corpses

Fourteen hammers

Fourteen knives

Fourteen times fourteen

Fourteen repeated

Take 5

The pink shoe flower

The rhododendron

The hibiscus

The bougainvillea

The stamen, the pistil

The shape of the jasmine

The scent of a woman

The waif of the moonlight

The glowworms of starlight

The butterflies of sun motes

The golden pollen

The tickling green grass

The tinkling windchimes

The sonnet at last

A funny set of linked minisons of 14 words each where my Hindi approximates Modi's English

"DOLAND", CORONA DID NOT GO!

Mithron

Bhaiyon aur behenon

you diyas lightified

you bajaofied thaalis

you kumbh melafied

You

chanted "go corona go"

You burnt effigies

Of Greta

Rihanna

all rakshasis

corona devis

But

Corona did not go

Do not worry

Let's see what Modi will do

Modi hai to mumkin hai

"Hamara Bajaj" hai hi woh

Mithron

Bhaiyon aur behenon

Minisons next set

So this Thrissur pooram

is around the corner

elephants and men

not many women

Will they hold it?

For votes?

I don't know

Death is cheap

These days

Votes matter more

As in Sabarimala

Left, right or centre

Priest must be Brahmin

Women can't enter

Dalit is still Dalit

Lucky I am not in

Kerala anymore

Minison last one (a continuation of the previous one)

If you ask me

I'm with the elephants

Set them free

They're the gods.

Not the humans

Not the devotees

Not the temples

Not the gods

Not me

Feby Joseph

writes a minison (mini suns and mini si(g)ns) using my poem for the 'found' technique

#NaPoWriMo2021 – TSL NaPoWriMo – Minison – April 20th – Ampat Koshy Reena Prasad

Turkish Delight

*(or waking from dreams)

Found from Ampat Koshy’s “Turkey: An Interlude: Internal Realism/Flight Stop-Over/Turkish Delight”, part of his large poem Swapna Sundari from the book The Blue Hours

Was not about the

idea – (cold turkey)

Beethoven in the

Ninth, lives that

My life… Jeddah to

Tripoli – a rumble;

Wings to Nabokov –

Lepidopterist’s

Butterfly story…

(Flash Tiger Moth)

Kerala was magic

Realism let it go

Never a nymphet, I

Still pay the fee.

© Feby Joseph