My poem for today's TSL Prompt by Pratyush Mishra which was a brilliant one.

 16 April TSL Napowrimo...Prompt:- the three exercises poem.

It's more of an exercise in three steps to unblock and flow on paper.

Step 1:-

Jot down one line on paper as clearly as you can about the current state of your mind.

Jot down three appropriate emotions that you are feeling with respect to your state of mind.

Jot down the first three things you see around yourself in your immediate surrounding.

Step 2:-

Imagine that the three objects around you are personifications/manifestations of those three emotions that you have jotted down.

Step 3:

Using material /lines /concepts generated in the first two steps write a poem not exceeding 20-25 lines.

-given by

Pratyush Mishra

The current state of my mind is lethargic

Three emotions: ennui, lassitude, apathy

Three objects: Nutella glass got free by buying it as the nutella came in it, Casio alarm clock, mobile phone Samsung A 30

The Glass is empty

It's too much effort

to get up and clean it

heat water in my kettle

pour it in

put in the three-in-one coffee powder

the cover of which I have to slit with a scissor

and then to drink it

watching it go again

from full to empty.

The Alarm Clock has green

phosphorescent hands

imitating the slush

and sluggishness in my mind

while the black borders of the numbers and the silver second needle

only accentuate

my endless procrastination

against a background of white and a back of black and silver

The Mobile Phone has a black face

like tar and black coffee

I remember Gray and Keats

wrapped in melancholy

and wonder if my fate

will be the same -

words writ on sand

washed away by the water

and an elegy in a graveyard

while the birds in sympathy twitter

then fall silent

while somewhere a Glass lies unused

and an Alarm Clock

no longer rings,

like a Mobile Phone's blackened, blacked-out face

merely confused.