suntannedapples: April 2020

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Hunger, warmth,
and and the steams of the porridge,
the kettle is set to sing.
The woman is mindful of the baby
and the man is happy watching both.
An evocative smell of the morning stirs
and the little home is a haven
for all the angels of paradise.

Milan Lakić Timeline

Photo album: Арт

Huihan Liu Chinese Painter

Sunday, April 26, 2020

"Summer in the light and winter in the shade"
and you feel on the face the breeze of the glade,
and glad you are that in your yard
the summer has no end and the winter
has a signal to wait till the morrow.
The mornings open a day with the wisps
of the vapors of coffee rising with the rising sun.
The seasons run with the tryst with time,
and carry the loads of years on the sack
they carry on their back.
Trust me , Nature wants us to be happy
and mark the rhythm of its rock and roll.

Sushama Karnik (c)
April 26, 2020.
Thanks for the image Souheil Ghammachi

Sunday...
One of those April
days when the sun
shines hot and the
wind blows cold:
when it is summer
in the light and
winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens
Great Expectations

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Thoughtful in the halflight,
the profile and the face,
the mood and the mirror.
Sometimes the pages we write
in the halflight
are truer than what we set out to write,
the depth we could never imagine us to dive.
The glimpses of the face as we never saw us
is shown in the mirror.
The subliminal divine shines in the eye.
The peace which comes
from the intuited land
wraps us around as we fall asleep.

Sushama Karnik

Image credit Souheil Ghammachi

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Trapped,
dreaming,
BROODING OVER

something lost,
something that hurt,
perhaps some sullen word
spoken by someone when the day was going dark.
A troublesome memory.
It made no sense,
and now a thing of the past.
The sun that throws its light
on the tense shoulder
is sliding away .
An amateurish gesture
made by someone
to bring a smile,
had also
slipped
out of the grip.
A broken pitcher
never could the pieces hold
the water the pitcher was meant to hold.

Sushama Karnik

Thanks for the image @Milan Lakić

Milan Lakić Timeline

Photo album: Црно - беле

Black and White Photography by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Mexico

Emoji

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Sushama Karnik

Hi Tony! Was missing you . Hows are the things at your end?

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Tony Cairns

Hi Sushama. Just very worried really.

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Sushama Karnik

Are you in UK? Things are full of anxiety and long uncertainty here. There is a nationwide lockdown. We are all under house-arrest.

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Sushama Karnik

Do take care. Times are hard everywhere. But we we live and struggle in the hope that this too shall pass.

Tony Cairns

Yes, in NE UK. Lockdown here too: it's worse near London (which I visit regularly). I work in a dementia care home - very high risk environment. Also, I'm main carer for my parents - one of whom is in the highest risk category!
Stressed!!