First things first Quench your thirst Cough up the fee For your morning coffee (Or, like me, Simply make yourself a tea) vaishaliprazmari.com #coffee #tea #desert #morning #vaishaliprazmari #painting #art #1001nights #arabiannights #online #contemporaryart #traditionalart

End of winter slippers Keep him looking chipper Hipper than a Shoreditch hipster On an East London ego tripper Feeling vain walking down Brick Lane But these are no good in the rain vaishaliprazmari.com #bricklane #eastlondon #slipper #indianslipper #desert #shoreditch

A Persian peepshow Peepshows aren’t deep shows But their silly-seeming jocundity Masks Nasreddin-style profundity vaishaliprazmari.com #persianpeepshow #peepshow #nasreddin #wisefool #desert #vaishaliprazmari #painting #art #1001nights #arabiannights #online #contemporary

What what A teapot Storm clouds arise in a foxtrot Surrounding your eyes in a timed play The gong fu cha way In purple clay Patina of noble rot 好贵 vaishaliprazmari.com #好贵 #贵 #貴 #teapot #noblerot #patina #purpleclay #yixing #宜兴 #宜興 #desert #vaishaliprazmari

A spate of dates flung find their fate Djinn bait at the worlds’ meeting gate 1001 Nights would not have happened if He had just got himself a plate vaishaliprazmari.com #dates #djinn #fate #getaplate #desert #vaishaliprazmari #painting #art #1001nights #arabiannights

An insolent glance Then it’s time to dance Nautch hips, her Fancy slippers Her arrogance And elegance Her shoulder veil seeps Watch her and weep vaishaliprazmari.com #nautch #dance #hips #watchherandweep #desert #vaishaliprazmari #painting #art #1001nights #arabiannights

A ghostly brave face Caught in a net Awaits a king’s grace With stories unfinished yet vaishaliprazmari.com #net #lion #stories #unfinished #desert #vaishaliprazmari #painting #art #1001nights #arabiannights #online #contemporaryart #traditionalart #miniaturepainting

The world: a bull, a fish, a globe White slippers of power atop Whose elegant feet will those little shoes hold? A sleight of hand and simple swap… (…rest of poem on other socials)

I want the red ball, I want it all I try and try to jump high But I’m only small and I’m risking a fall Pigs might fly with six cuddly thighs If I don’t get the ball I’ll cry and I’ll squall I’ve six legs, four wings but no eyes vaishaliprazmari.com #ball #pigsmightfly

Little, little green glass jar How I wonder what you are Who were all the djinn you canned Quaint container in the sand Little, little green glass jar How I wonder what you are vaishaliprazmari.com #glassjar #green #twinkletwinklelittlest #desert #vaishaliprazmari

To paint the universal Using watercolour dispersal You do one dot, it bleeds and clots You get one shot and that’s your lot There is no rehearsal vaishaliprazmari.com #universe #watercolour #oneshot #onehitwonder #desert #vaishaliprazmari #painting #art #1001nights

Antediluvian Almost Vesuvian Squirting squelching Popping belching Erupting volcanoes With no drains though Before the flood Beloved mud vaishaliprazmari.com #mudvolcano #desert #vaishaliprazmari #painting #art #1001nights #arabiannights #online #contemporaryart

This edgy rock Gave me painter’s block The slow lithic clock Tick tock, tick tock Dripping time all its own Like blood from a stone vaishaliprazmari.com #rock #rocktime #paintersblock #desert #vaishaliprazmari #painting #art #1001nights #arabiannights #online #contemporary

A water seller Quenches thirst Traffic dwellers’ Needs are nursed Flag bearer Flip-flop wearer Bag on his back A whole trade in his pack In his pocket a purse Water comes first vaishaliprazmari.com #waterseller #thirst #tradesman #desert #vaishaliprazmari #painting #art

Qutn قطن Cotton Cottoning on Better than nylon But not quite chiffon vaishaliprazmari.com #Qutn #قطن #Cotton #desert #vaishaliprazmari #painting #art #1001nights #arabiannights #online #contemporaryart #traditionalart #miniaturepainting #art #artistsofinstagram #artcollect

Pipe dreams And opium Conciousness streams When you need hopium This pipe gleams And gives you dopium vaishaliprazmari.com #pipe #opium #desert #vaishaliprazmari #painting #art #1001nights #arabiannights #online #contemporaryart #traditionalart #miniaturepainting #art

But of course! A flying horse Made of paper See you later…. vaishaliprazmari.com #flyinghorse #paper #desert #vaishaliprazmari #painting #art #1001nights #arabiannights #online #contemporaryart #traditionalart #miniaturepainting #art

Well that was fast A horse of brass The Nights transform From dusk till dawn vaishaliprazmari.com #flyinghorse #brass #desert #vaishaliprazmari #painting #art #1001nights #arabiannights #online #contemporaryart #traditionalart #miniaturepainting #art

Nubian pyramids More slopey than Egyptian Made from different grids With Kushite inscriptions vaishaliprazmari.com #pyramids #nubian #kushite #desert #vaishaliprazmari #painting #art #1001nights #arabiannights #online #contemporaryart #traditionalart #miniaturepainting #art

And now for something completely different… #bigpainting #giantpainting #ladders #sladepainting #sladeschool #art #vaishaliprazmari #painting #art #1001nights #arabiannights #online #contemporaryart #traditionalart #miniaturepainting #art