giggling girls swirling
yukata adorning them
paper fans in hands
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gulping down the sweets
sumo-wrestler in Kyoto
the Gion is in flow
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opened entryways
displayed family heirlooms
take a glance and leave
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single stroke needed
slashing the rope of desires
begins matsuri
*Written in response of Carpe Diem # 230.
Copyright – EL Appleby
“Oh God, save me,” he was running away from some scary creature with a long wide trunk and small tusks, that were very much hidden under the shadow of the massive muscular monolith.
“How is it running so fast?” he glanced back and found that this elephant look-alike creature had hooves for his legs and…, “Has he got a black and white rear with a tail?”
His heart was throbbing and he couldn’t run any longer; all his concentration on the beast. He didn’t notice the valley looming before him and thence, he fell down, waking up from a dream.
* Written in response to Friday Fictioneers challenge and that too when I am half asleep.
He was about to go out when she interrupted, “Best of Luck for the meeting. Come, I will get for you a bowl of curd and sugar for good luck.”
“Don’t you know I don’t like to be called while going out,” he sneered.
“I am just asking you to do so for your own success,” she reasoned.
“Please don’t think about me and do your own work,” he angrily replied, “I haven’t married you so that you could become a hassle for me.”
“I am just trying to keep you happy,” she said in a teary voice.
“If you want to keep me happy, just do what you are asked to do.”
“And don’t cry in front of me.”
“A burden… yes, that is what she is,” he mumbled to himself, leaving for the office, without giving a single glance to his weeping wife.
“Why?”
“Why can’t he love me?”
“Why can’t he just accept me?”
“I was not married off to live a life like this.”
She cried and asked the open air, these questions and then cried even more.
Wiping away her tears after a few minutes, “I must not let these thoughts come to my mind,” she told herself.
“These are demonic thoughts.”
“I must respect my husband. He is everything I have got.”
“I should try harder to please him and continue to do so even if he doesn’t pay any attention towards me.”
“I am a wife and I must fulfill my duty as the homemaker.”
She had all but forgotten the ill-treatment she was subjected to by her own husband and went off to the kitchen to prepare the meal for the day.
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