Llama

A guy in Dubai drank

Too much liquid of midnight

Celebrating his success in the desert

He wanted to raise a camel as his pet

He  searched for it in online pet stores

He liked the smile of one and bought it

He forgot about it until he got a call

From a delivery company, to receive

The animal he bought from Bolivia

He had no memory, that too from 

Bolivia, He checked his internet history,       

To find the day he shopped online,            

He saw the confirmatory email for                

the shopping, He was amused when             

he saw the llama, Not a camel, it had a            

head like a goat, It was a small animal              

full of fur, it had an infectious smile, 

He found out that it was from the Andes

mountains, He still liked its smile, But 

he wondered how to raise it in the desert! 

He set up a cooler enclave on his farm, 

And he placed an order for a couple more, 

For giving company to his llama!

A poem based on word prompts from #atreyasverse #2WordPrompt Image from Unsplash 

Lonely duck

Afternoon blues tore up the rain clouds

To showcase the sky with its glowing arms

Sunshine put brakes on the erratic rain

Water logged roads remained lazy

To dry up in rhythm with the sun

Potholes in dilapidated roads

Shined as if its jewels

And it resembled ponds

A duck aloof from its herd

Amidst a deserted city street

Found the luxury to have a bath

Peacefully in one of the potholes

Swaying its wings, taking time at will

Without being bothered about anything

The pedestrians or odd vehicles passing by

It enjoyed the bath relying on natural instincts

Though, it had never seen its real habitat once

The fields and lakes where its predecessors

Swam the life at the pace of virgin nature

Born in hatcheries, it was walked through

The miles by the vendors from camps to camps

Without seeing any water stream all along the way

For it, roads are equivalent to the idyllic waterways

Forced to run around a plot filled with coconut trees

Lonely duck made friendships with the people and dogs

Strangers and vehicles don’t scare it anymore

As the parking lot brings countless of them everyday

It has buckets of water to gulp down its thirst

Occasional rains quench its innate urge to drench

 Though, swimming is impossible in its new home

There are no fishes and worms to hunt down

It’s Fed with the grains and human food

It is caged in the wave of space crunch

In the allay of city life It never wished

As it couldn’t fly away back to the nature

Delightful Nap

Afternoon blues was in the air

A relief of sunshine

After so many rainy days

I was travelling with my friend

On his bike

As we reached a traffic point

While waiting for the green signal

I turned aside and watched

An abandoned nameless memorial

With rectangular base

And reducing height towards top

It was built on spacious median

That was amidst a series of roads

In different directions

The outer brick basement was dilapidated

The grass on its premises were over grown

But the monument was in good condition

Standing tall with a question mark

Do you know why I am standing here?

I wonder if civic authorities have an answer

But it’s a nice little asylum for a dog couple

They were lying on parallel sides

They were in deep slumber

The noises of the vehicles didn’t deter them

Not even the scorching heat of sunny day

Deterred them from a well deserved rest

After their tough efforts to feed themselves

In a busy part of the city

I guess, they had their food somehow

It’s not an easy life for stray dogs in a city

They face the dangers of speeding vehicles

They face the wrath of angry Samaritans

They face the ire of shop owners or securities

But there might be someone helping them

With kindness

Still, it’s a daunting task to survive

Feeding on the dumped waste foods

But looking at their faces

I found the peace and happiness they share

They don’t have puppies

Totally isolated from group of dogs

That I found some kilometers back

They are made for each other

Facing life together with one heart

I felt jealous at those dogs

As we keep running during whole of the day

To get many things done and to earn

But we don’t have the time

To enjoy a delightful nap in the afternoon

We don’t have any peace

To rest with satisfaction

As we can’t rest in laurels

More targets to achieve less time to spend

We have to keep running

I wished that all of us could afford

A peaceful nap in afternoons

As we ride away to our next destination

Once the green signal flashed

Re-incarnation of the Extinct

The world is incomplete without you

Countless beautiful animals and birds

We the humans made sure that

You never took birth again

In this helpless earth controlled by us

Our ancestors hunted you down

With the passion for hunting down trophies

To show how brave they were

Or just simply brought unknown enemies

From lands far away without warning

And they simply butchered you down

As if, their hunger never ceased

Some left this earth even before humans took birth

As generations passed by

Curiosity about a lost world of species

Learnt from the encyclopedias and various books

Made some researchers to excavate

To find the remnants of an old world

They found the bones of mammoths, dinosaurs

And countless species

They found countless dormant eggs

They found their ages with carbon dating

And all new techniques

They recreated their body with softwares

And real 3d models

They came up with countless assumptions

About the lifestyle

And the extinction of those species

Made documentaries and movies to show the old eras

To the young kids and to fascinate them

With genome codes, cloning coming to the fore

Along with the crazy minds trying to make artificial life

It won’t be a surprise

If someone crack the genome codes of those species

And then extracting DNA’s from eggs or bones

Or from any preserved bodies

And cloning them to give a re-incarnation

Like we saw in Jurassic park

Our zoos are obsolete with familiar animals

New animals from old era will usher it  

Even then some another species will extinct

Well they can die in peace

With a hope that

Humans will re-incarnate them from the extinct

One day