Ditty and Two Other Poems

 Do not be ashamed of your beauty.

It won't last long.

It is the beauty of youth that fades away

like a song,

that withers when left

love-lorn,

that like a flower is born

only from the stem

to be torn.

Stitch

Koshur Qalam challenge prompt 4 poem by Dr. Koshy AV

When there was no stitch

left to cover my victimhood

between those who had pawned me

and those who thought me the spoils of their gambling

you stood as a blue cloud

surrounding me

saving me

"Extend the border of your mantle

over me"

be I Draupadi or Ruth amidst the alien corn

listening to the nightingale

be you Krishna or Boaz

in the ancestry of the line of the chosen one

Jesus

"Cover me"

Pebbles Jan 3 Koshur Qalam Challenge Prompt by Dr Koshy AV

My life is a

Handful

Of

Pebbles

That lead me

To their source

My home

The rock

From which they were hewn

The water in which

They were smoothened

Fashioned

Cool to the touch

Fair to the eyes

An imaginary sweet

In the mouth

Memories

Pebbles

Light of God

Refracted bands

My many

Pebbles