the lime flavors the water!!!

lime flavors the water

sprouting citrus, yolklike acid

kindling some fire  

lime flavors the water

flossing teeth, jellylike hair

clearing the dust off the mouth

lime does flavor the water of the lime water flask

island between icebergs 

i drink the liquid sun and breathe.

Kartikey Grover

Inspired by the works of Thousand Others!!!

Sub-sonnet of the Night Smoke!!!

standing at the crossing,

my steps clouded tonight

the smoke, smoking away the city light

singing softly but its echo is might.

“i need to rise now,

long have i served this place flowing in pipes

i need to feel the wind breeze

ducts are now, a too confined lease”

The smoke looks at my puzzled face softly and whispers again

“I unfurl my eddies, but i know where i am going, 

a warm blanket for those i meet on my way

i float a silver lining for the tired souls in dismay”

tonight, at its prime, the smoke goes along performing a heavenly dance

singing to those who hear its grey smokey trance!!!

Kartikey Grover

Inspired by the works of Thousand Others!!!

My name is given a Fourier,
when i would meet my coffee dear!!!

a e i o u 

might be just some vowels for you,

a myriad of pronunciations for me to hear

when i would meet my coffee dear.

My name could be tough to say,

i understand and have no ill way

waiting to go right some year

when i would meet my coffee dear.

It definitely gives me an unwanted spotlight

in cafes, with baristas as their ‘multi-syllabled’ fight

an awkward moment of hiatus for their tongue in a hectic gear

when i would meet my coffee dear.

Rarely few will manage till end and utter a ’key’

but most give up the fight initially

a battle where i always have the final tear

when i would meet my coffee dear

but i would unleash the banner again today,

break it again as car- tea-kay

hoping today my name will get its long- due cheer

when i would meet my coffee dear.

Kartikey Grover

Inspired by my Coffee Dear!!!