Another drawing

My little brother's new set of colors seemed so tempting...I just couldn't resist drawing this (an old drawing again)

"It's not only fine feathers that make fine birds"
-Aesop

"The reason that birds can fly and we can not is simply that they have perfect faith, for faith is necessary to have wings"

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song"

The Haunted House

I climbed up the winding stairs

Of the derelict house with broken chairs

Cobwebs lined the dark passages

It was mysterious, full of secret messages

The dusty mullioned windows, the broken latch

The old turrets, the greasy patch

With voices ricocheting off the walls

And discordant cacophony filling the halls

My heart was thumping hard all the while

I felt as if I could drink the Nile

I crossed the archway and reached the landing

It was so scary, perhaps my ending...

Everything here was still as death

A rustle startled me, my heart leapt

I checked twice, no one was there

I felt the need to go, but where?

Just then a hand gripped me tight

I didn’t have the strength to scream, let alone fight

With horror, my body went really numb

I knew my end was near, I would succumb

Just then my eyes fluttered open, my mum stood there

Oh! I heaved a sigh- it was just a nightmare!

A sketch by me

Sketches

I love sketching ruins...Here's one I sketched long back...

  "Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!" 

― Mehmet Murat ildan 

"The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly."

― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies   

"There is, I find, something very evocative about ruins - particularly recent ones." (introduction to "Calico Black, Calico Blue") 

  ― Joel Knight

Where No Man has Ever Gone Before

I had a feeling...A strong desire

Though threatened by consequences dire

To reach a place...A quaint wonderland

Perhaps buried under the sand

The desire forever in my heart I bore

As I set out to reach the land

Where no man has ever gone before.

I put on my walking shoe

And my hat..."That would do!"

I thought to myself as I set out

With a stifled cry, not a shout

My desire strengthening all the more

I tried to reach the land

Where no man has ever gone before.

  

I crossed the snow lands, the deserts hot

Still I couldn’t reach the place I sought

I swam across the seas and scaled the peaks

I was exhausted, my limbs felt weak

Still I walked till my feet were sore

As I struggled to reach the land

Where no man has ever gone before

My greatest fears were coming true

As I had fallen down and nothing I could do

Smeared with blood from the bruises and cuts

To walk another mile, I didn’t have guts

And then I saw it...It was a door

Ah! I had finally reached the land

Where no man has ever gone before!