Weekly Photo Challenge

Heritage: from a mother to her daughter

~ Madame Zenista

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge

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Krishna under the tree with peacocks, playing his enchanting flute, flanked by two peacock lamps. Adorned with some fragrant white flowers from our garden, as an offering of love.

Usually, as a family tradition, a mother gifts her daughter standard few things at her wedding. This is a brass idol of Krishna given by my mother as I started my new life. She loves Krishna and his stories. I myself find great wisdom in the Bhagavad Gita, a unique scripture (could very well be called secular) with answers to possibly all questions that have and will plague the human mind.

Krishna’s message : let your life be a celebration.
I inherited this idol from my mother, and also the blessing to be able to make my life into a celebration.

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Krishna playing his flute under a tree. Flanked by traditional peacock lamps. Monochrome # 033

Heritage

The Danger of driving

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The danger of driving,…when roads are covered with snow and ice. (Makes for interesting Black and White pictures, though!) My other entry for danger is here: I struggle…

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Snow, no-snow, snow… Monochrome # 025

Oh Wanderlust! The places you take me…

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I wander by the sea, when the moon is high… Monochrome # 021
Oh Wanderlust! The places you take me…

I wander in the jungles
I wander in cities
I wander in the mountains
I wander by the seas
When sun is nigh
I wander
Drenched in light
Or the moon high
I wander
In the silver-night
I wander in my thoughts
Places seen, unseen
Oh wanderlust!
The places you take me…

(My second post on the WPC on Wanderlust, the first one here: All I Ask is the Heaven Above…)

 

Dark Dense Clouds and a Raindrop

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Raindrop under the dense clouds
A raindrop against the dark dense clouds. Monochrome # 015

The heart flutters with excitement
As the seasons change guard
Ever since it did in a lil’ girls backyard
It rained and rained. Then it rained some more
And awoke the buds after a peaceful slumber
Flirting, in the half- asleep, half -awake stupor
With a raindrop, that stayed as long as it could
And then bid adieu to the sombre bud
The dark dense clouds still so heavy with love
A raindrop too many’d soon descend from above…

In response to the The Daily Post: Weekly Photo Challenge – ‘Dense‘

All waiting, atop the stairs…

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Atop the stairs… Monochrome # 008

ATOP the stairs, at sunup…

LOOKING down, a dream still weakly trailing
Sometimes giving up on the riddle
Other times, savoring the good feeling

THE smile fades as my feet grow cold
For its Showtime, and show up, I must
As the day invades with crimson gold

MY role comes to life as the sunlight roars
Descending each step, I drown more
Until lost in the assembly line of daily chores

BUT that nagging feeling at the back o’ my mind
That unfinished book, a cozy cuppa (if not wine)
‘N a bit of me, that I’d left behind

All waiting
Until sundown
Atop the stairs

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Waiting atop my nightstand: A hot cuppa, some half unread books with bit o’solitude for company… Monochrome # 009

In response to The Daily Post: Weekly Photo Challenge. Atop.