Month: April 2023

Ziz

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It’s April of 2023 and Day 26 (Finale) of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme legendary creatures from cultures and folklore and an eight line poem along.

Day 26: Ziz

Culture: Jewish giant bird

Description:  Ziz is a griffin like bird which is described to be large enough even to block out the sun with its wingspan. They protected the earth from the storms. Stories have that God had sent the Ziz to help Noah load the animals onto the ark. Ziz represents the sky.

Ziz

A feather
Another
Can fill the sky,
Infinity and high.
There is always
A large
Than the larger.
A happy Dance.

However big, there is always a tiny that can show the bigger or make it smaller. Together, it’s a happy dance. We live in a harmony of little big things!

Image Reference: https://mythologyplanet.com/ziz-jewish-mythology-bird/

Yale

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It’s April of 2023 and Day 25 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme legendary creatures from cultures and folklore and an eight line poem along.

Day 25: Yale

Culture: Antelope from Medieval Bestiaries

Description: Yale is a goat like animal with swiveling horns. It has tusks like a boar and large horns. These horns can spin in any direction which can be used for offensive and defensive attacks. It is a heraldic beast used by Royal British Family.

Yale

People are rigid.
They like rigid.
Complications.
Offensive. Defensive.
Everything beyond
Is nothing rigid.
Simple and
Royal.

Sometimes when we don’t know what is necessary, we keep adding unnecessary. We add so much of it that all we have is a pile of unnecessary. Then, there is no coming out. We die in unnecessary.

Image Reference: By Photo: Andreas Praefcke – Self-photographed, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15604609

Xingtian

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It’s April of 2023 and Day 24 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme legendary creatures from cultures and folklore and an eight line poem along.

Day 24: Xingtian

Culture: Chinese headless giant

Description: Xingtian is a Chinese deity who fought against the supreme divinity. He did not give up even after decapitation. Being headless, with a shield in one hand and battle axe in another, he continued to fight. Xingtian symbolizes the unconquerable soul who upholds the determination to fight no matter the misfortunes one may undergo or encounter.

Xingtian

There is an
Excuse,
So much not like
One.
There will always
Be one.
Then there are
Doers.  

The history in the past has proved time and again that people with determination have done everything that they wanted to.

Image Reference: By Jiang Yinghao – Originally drawn in the 17th century by Jiang Yinghao.Reproduced in Ma Changyi (2001). The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Ancient Illustrations with Annotations. Shandong Huabao Chubanshe. Page 439.

Werewolf

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It’s April of 2023 and Day 23 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme legendary creatures from cultures and folklore and an eight line poem along.

Day 23: Werewolf

Culture: A worldwide wolf-human shape shifter

Description: In ancient Greek, they were wolf-human who used shape shift. They are either by purpose or by curse. The transformation occurs on the night of a full moon. Witches and werewolves have evolved together. It’s widespread in European folklore. They have healing factor and they are immortal.

Werewolf

On a full moon,
In the shine,
A werewolf,
Who loved a wolf,
Healed,
In the scars,
Made the moment,
Immortal.

The destiny what we think really is, might not be the one at all. The path to get there, might be the destiny and might be everything that we ever wanted.

Image Reference: By Lucas Cranach the Elder – Gotha, Herzogliches Museum (Landesmuseum), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=453912

Vampire

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It’s April of 2023 and Day 22 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme legendary creatures from cultures and folklore and an eight line poem along.

Day 22: Vampire

Culture: They are re-animated corpse that fed on blood from Slavic culture

Description: What we know of vampires today is not the way it started back then. Vampires were un-dead creatures that visited loved ones. There were often described as bloated and of dark countenance. Today, there are vampire stories from around the world. Vampirism nowadays has its own elements of culture.

Vampire

At the milestone,
At that timeline,
When everything settles,
When thunders calm,
When lights darken,
We go home.
And that is how,
A new world is born.

It takes beyond the counts to go home. And not everybody is meant to go home. But one must try, to find home.   

Image Reference: By Edvard Munch – Google Art Project: pic, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37643012

Unicorn

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It’s April of 2023 and Day 21 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme legendary creatures from cultures and folklore and an eight line poem along.

Day 21: Unicorn

Culture: Horse like creature from Medieval Bestiaries

Description: Unicorns are horse like, with legs of an antelope, tail of lion and single horn on head. The horn is supposed to be a magical healing horn. They are usually a white horse. The unicorn continues to hold a place in popular culture and it is often used as a symbol of fantasy or rarity.

Unicorn

You believe it or not,
Not,
In the deep,
Across the mountains,
In the sands,
In the faraway land.
But, amongst us,
Also, there are unicorns.

For magic to exist, one must believe that there is magic. As simple as that.

Image Reference: By Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries – http://digital.lib.uh.edu/u?/p15195coll18,33, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17311032

Troll

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It’s April of 2023 and Day 20 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme legendary creatures from cultures and folklore and an eight line poem along.

Day 20: Troll

Culture: Nature spirit from Norse Mythology

Description: Trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains, caves etc. They live together in small family units and they are rarely in helpful mind-set for humans. From Norse it was adapted by Scandinavian folklore where they used to live far from humans and are dim witted. They are usually huge and variations have been used is many movies and in numerous culture later as well.

Troll

We all are,
What we are,
Only to those.
A smaller unit.
Far far away
Is our world,
From the real,
Is the very real.

We all behave childish, love-ish, stupid-ish, carefree and all that, among only a closed few. They let us be who we are. They let us dream. And that is where the life happens.

 

Image Reference: By John Bauer – Illustration of Walter Stenström's The boy and the trolls or The Adventure in childrens' anthology Among pixies and trolls, a collection of childrens' stories, 1915., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=92923

Satori

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It’s April of 2023 and Day 19 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme legendary creatures from cultures and folklore and an eight line poem along.

Day 19: Satori

Culture: A mind reading humanoid from Japanese culture

Description: Satori means consciousness. They are mind-reading monkey-like monsters that stayed at the mountains of Hida and Mino. They are known to read a person’s mind and say them louder faster than a human would. Legends also tell that they are the child incarnations of mountain gods.

Satori

There was a rule book
With a hundred,
As if, life,
Runs on a hundred.
Like your mind,
You can question,
Out loud,
Why the rule!

And a lot of us are bound to them, in a layer of acceptance above and layers of depths of rejections, below and within.  

Image Reference: By Toriyama Sekien, scanned from ISBN 4-336-03386-2., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2079940

Raiju

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It’s April of 2023 and Day 18 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme legendary creatures from cultures and folklore and an eight line poem along.

Day 18: Raiju

Culture: Lightning spirit from Japanese mythology

Description: Raiju is a thunder beast. Its body is composed of lightning in the form of a white and blue form of wolf or dog. It also has many other animal representations as well. It gets agitated during thunderstorm otherwise is a calm and harmless creature. The sky has lot more to explore.

Raiju

Be aggressive,
Be hyper excited,
Be psyched,
If you love it.
And then,
Be calm.
To be there,
Aggressive, excited, psyched.  

If you really love something, I wonder how can one stay can calm over it. It just seems impossible thing to do.

Image Reference: By Ban KōKē (伴蒿蹊, Japanese, *1733, †1806) – scanned from ISBN 978-4-7601-1299-9., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2245581

Qilin

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It’s April of 2023 and Day 17 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme legendary creatures from cultures and folklore and an eight line poem along.

Day 17: Qilin

Culture: Dragon-ox-deer hybrid from Chinese mythology

Description: Qilin are usually depicted throughout a wide range of Chinese art, at times with their bodies on fire. In modern times, they have also been fused with unicorns. It is said to appear with the imminent arrival or passing of a sage or illustrious ruler. They can be of any color or multi-color.

Qilin

You step through it,
Become one,
You could be one,
And only one.
You could be many,
Many in one,
Or one of many.
You, Be.  

There is this unique sense of feeling when you become one. Being is all that matters. Be a fire. A house of many.

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