1. a nonreigning female member of a royal family.
2. Hist. a female sovereign or monarch; queen.
3. the consort of a prince.
4. (in Great Britain) a daughter or granddaughter (if the child of a son) of a king or queen.
5. a woman considered to have the qualities or characteristics of a princess.
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Priyanka (120)
She looked resplendent in a dress of turquoise blue, with her hair plaited in two neat pigtails. She looked cute. Her big, brown eyes shone, as she danced with the mayor. For a six-year old, she could cut a fine circle around the dance floor. But her eyes were looking around, he knew, searching for him. And when she saw him, her face lit up with joy, and she ran towards him, launching into his arms and said, “Daddy, why are you staring at me?” He became aware of the traffic around him and realized that he was on his begging route. He looked at his daughter, fondly, and thought, “Even in this tattered dress, she’s still my little princess.”
Dok Saab (120)
"Rajkumari!! You are still sleeping. Who will wash the dirty utensils, your brothers?"
Born after four sons, she was treated like a real princess by her brothers. "What is my little princess doing" Joginder Singh used to call, when he returned from the office. She was very beautiful, and as she grew, she became even more elegant, delicate and charming. "My little princess! You will rule his home" he told her when he fixed her marriage with Rajat, a software engineer with Infosys. Rajat was from a well educated decent middle class family.
"Just because your dad named you Rajkumari, you think you are a princess" Rajat was shouting, "You think you will sleep and my mother will wash utensils."
Truth Dude (103)
A Love Song For A Princess
Your lustrous hair
weaves tales of fascination.
Your deeply expressive eyes,
mark the beauty of creation.
Your grace and style
are the cause of envy.
Your gracious smile
is as beautiful as can be.
Your royalty is plain
for all ordinary mortals to see.
I give you my heart
and I give it to you for free.
You will always be
the salt of my life.
If I should be so lucky
to make you my wife.
And in pain and tears
and happiness and joy...
I beg you to be the Queen,
of this ordinary boy.
Mandappa KC (115)
Princess
The spotlights were on her. She was dressed in a flowing white gown with a sparkling little tiara upon her princely head.
She screamed with bellowing hate.
"Get out of my castle and never set foot in it ever again.
You have tarnished my name and the very land you were born.
No man shall ever cross me again. And let this be an example. You dare hoot your brains on the fact that this land may one day be run by a woman. Aren't you ashamed of yourself you male chauvinistic pig."
"Cut", screamed the director.
She pulled out her phone, called and said "Dad, I promised you I'd be a princess someday."
Mickey, the monkey (120)
The Princess was coming to Sydney for the first time.
A grand reception was awaiting her arrival at the harbor.
A huge crowd had gathered for a glimpse of her.
They said she was very beautiful, most elegant and graceful.
I had never seen a royal beauty since I came to town from the jungles.
So I sat on a branch of the big banyan tree overhanging the sea.
Suddenly there was a big hullabaloo.
I saw that a big ship was coming in our direction.
It was a grand ship, very beautiful, most elegant and graceful.
I was looking for the regal lady on the ship,
when I saw written on the bow of the ship,
"The Caribbean Princess"
Santonu (112)
Bright sunshine and moonlight could touch you….
Morning breeze was privileged to play with your hairs,
when you closed your bright blue eyes.
Rain drops caressed your glowing face whenever they wished,
soak you with the chill and pleasure,
Green grass always welcomed you with their smiling face,
ever happy to carry you on their soft shoulder
Fragrance of the flowers could make you smile
A smile for which world went upside down
I wished, I could show you the beautiful world through my eyes,
give the warmth of the heart no one could imagine
But I only wished..
Someday I would hold your face and
kiss your eyes… My blind princess!
her father a grey king, a white crown upon his crest
Her babble was a tinkle,
When she leaped stone to stone, dancing through the high forest
Then one day she stepped out,
At father’s feet fell the child, curious, growing
Soon she was beautiful,
Young, meandering through the green hills, flowing
The world was then changing,
Her hosts now harsh and dry, blazing rays were vultures upon her
But high-born she was,
She mellowed them all with her blessings, growing greater
Then… she met her prince,
A great, blue emperor, waiting with an open embrace
River Nara looked back once,
She’d meet her father again some day, but not as a child, as a true princess
GS Virmani (130)
I am weak in 'tenses' and she was the one who made me remind the greatest lesson of grammar or should i say of life.. "Live in present, leave past and future". she came like a melody in my life. i can still feel the delicate touch of her little fingers. the way she laughed while jumping with balloons in her hand, wearing polka dotted frock is still visible to me. the sovenirs and momentos she brought and made me proud are still in my showcase. "Papa i love you too", i can still hear the words. today she is getting married and from now she would be queen of someone's heart but i face no problem of "tenses" while predicting that she would always be mine sweet little "princess".
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41 comments:
What's happening? Where are almost two/third of our klashers? Come, people, come.
ONLY SEVEN, people seem to be too busy this week !!
but we have some very nice takes on the word !!
I guess people are still writing...!! I am missing the PRINCESS of our klash..Konfessioner Singh.. :-) Nice klashes though...!!
8 mins till closure...!! Where's everyone..?? Konfessioners...?? :-o
Hi Priyanka
I believe people are quite busy this week. But lets not grieve about those not present and cheer for those who took time from their (may be) busy schedule, and wrote 120 words on such a simple and cute word.
Yeh, the monkey is right! But still, I wonder why so less! :o
But some very good takes here. Let the comments flow now. Let there be votes! :)
And sorry, GS Virmani, your post should have been up by 8.0, but there is some delay from my side!
@ Priyanka
I am in the driving seat this week, and look at me, have nothing much to do, just 8 entries. Wonder why!!
@ Missiy
Sardarni, tu aaja jaldi. Yahan sab ulta-pulta honeko hai! :D
Am I the only "PRINCESS" here this time?? :-)) Where are the other ladies...??? Start the komments someone...mine will follow...!! :-)
No One wants to be the first to komments Priyanka, and this time I too will not komment first. Let some one else start the big fight :)
Well Priyanka and Mickey, I don’t fear backlash to my comments so I will be the first.
Agreed the number of klashes is low, but that does not in any way lower the fun of klashing. I too was thinking of skipping this klash due to constraint of time. I have never missed a single klash since this was started; the last klash (Rebirth) of the previous edition in fact had two from me. But a small idea changed my decision. The sweeper at my clinic is named Rajkumari. This morning when I reached clinic, the peon was scolding her for not cleaning the floors properly. I laughed at the irony, a Rajkumari doing a menial job of a sweeper. So I sat down to write this take.
Rangan probably set this word with his female friend in mind, but like Sarang, Mandappa GSV and Priyanka, I too associate Princess with a sweet, cute daughter, may be because I am a father of one.
Priyanka---I can relate well to your take, love for a daughter is independent of the financial status of the father. But I was confused here, was this dad daydreaming the dance with the mayor, or the mayor was dancing on the streets with beggars daughter as a pre election stunt.
Dok Saab---every father has a dream for her lil princess, but who knows what is in store for her in her new home. I shudder at the thought that I too will have to give away my lil princess in marriage
Truth Dude--- Another experiment of yours!! Not using the word in the body so use it in the heading instead J . But nice rhyme dude! And I am noticing, Eros has spared you these few klashes.
Mandappa KC--- since abolition of monarchy here, princess has become mainly a European concept. But still we see lots of Princess acts on stages in schools. But for a father, a daughter is a princess whether or not she does a stage role or marries a real prince. In your take, Mandappa, I feel the word is thrust upon, in fact the last line could have been anything, like "Dad, I promised you I'd be a heroin someday."
Mickey, the monkey--- Hey Monkey, we were talking about a royal female and not ships J . But a very different point of view, I wonder why all big tourist cruise ships are called some Princess. And how did you reach Australia straight from Gibralter??
Santonu--- The poem is lovely, the play with nature, beautiful, but it is not justifying the word. This could be sung for any beautiful blind lady, whether or not a princess.
Sarang Mahajan--- Very beautiful poem Sarang!! A great visualization of a stream growing into a river and meeting her prince, the sea. How shall she meet her father the grey King, again, I failed to make the last line.
GS Virmani--- Again a very nicely written piece from GSV. Great concept of tenses a true Buddhist philosophy of living in present forgetting about the past or future. But the father daughter concept of princess became so repetitive by the time I reached your take, GSV. And you had to use 10 more words to say so.
My Vote--- Sarang for such artistic poem, tough it is describing more of a daughter, not necessarily a princess. But for Sarang’s excellent creativity, my vote would have gone to Mickey , for a totally different approach to the word.
Simple men,The Lady...n APE!
I apologise for not being among the posts.It is quiet evident why i chose this word...and i wanted to BE right there for HER to see....But things are getting tougher.I need to cut down my PC-Usage,as my mum spells,and also my Mobile!
I may not be back till Nov18...which happens to be the day when CAT growls!!
But if possible i'll peep in!
May your blood run long!!!
Willy 'High' Wingfoot.
(Of the Order of Cloud-98)
P.s:If my 2 pointer is still valid.....I Vote for sir,Sarang!
Wretched time;Flies like blood through a cut throat!!!
Peace!
And Bloody well done Klashers....
CYA soon!!!
@ Dok Saab
Thank you for your precious vote. And as usual I have a few explanations! Well, the river is off course a daughter, every princess is, but being a princess she does all the good things for people, such as making the lands green. Besides, her father is a snow-capped, gray, mountain, the king. Secondly, her water will travel through the clouds towards the mountain some day. That's how she'll meet her dad again! Haha!
@ Willy bro, thanks mate!
I shall komment in detail in some hours!
@Dok Saab: u r right but what can i do? she is my princess :)
Priyanka lovely take, i liked the twist a lot, its difficult when u write something within limited words
Dok saab Truly princess:) but dont worry, India is changing as long as a woman is independent no one can touch her, yes but pain remains
Truth dude Beautiful poem, but i would have liked i more if haven't tried to make her queen, princesses aren't tangible:D, but i liked the concept of not using the word and still get the impact..
mandappa Shot was good, but i didn't like the pace, its too fast, i guess the events are tomany to be described withing 120 words
Mickey :) why Micky i expected a beautiful monkey to appear, very different take on the word
Sarang Yes we have few similar take on the word this week, true you wrote beautifully.
GS Virmani May be you can post it for when the word in klash is 'tense' :) just joking. u r piece is truly on Princess, a sweet little one.
my vote: to Priyanka
Although mickey had a very different take still i found hers the better
Thank you for the valuable komments, Dok Saab and Santonu...and Santonu..thanks again..for the Vote...!! Iss baar sirf 8 log...bahut nainsaafi hai... :-)) But anyways...
Dok Saab: Real life experience...written beautifully..!!
Truth Dude: Nice poem..no use of the word again I see...!! Made me think of some movies I had seen.. :-)
Mandappa KC: Lord Mandi..nice start...I thought it was about a royal, beautiful princess, who's not so beautiful at heart...but I was disappointed by the time I finished it.
Mickey, the monkey: Absolutely fantabulous...a totally different perspective...of course..why should we always think of words..as in people...it can be the inanimate objects.. :-)
Santonu: Nice one Santonu...at first I thought that it had something to so with nature..then I got the real meaning.. :-) Love..makes us see even the unseen...isnt it..??
Sarang Mahajan: Beautifully written...of course...a river is the daughter of the mountain.. :-) But I did have difficulty in getting the last line..
River Nara looked back once,
She’d meet her father again some day, but not as a child, as a true princess
As a true princess...how..?? I read what you wrote in reply to Dok Saab's query...but still..the last line seemed as if it was written just to include the word
GS Virmani: The love of a father for his daughter...and vice versa..is one of the most beautiful emulations of love... Nice take..!! Stick to the word limit though pls..
My vote for this week..goes to..
Our friend..the simian.. Mickey, The Monkey..for the different perspective..and the simple write-up..!! :-)
Have a good day everyday...am back to the grindstone..!! Ciao.. :-)
Only eight klashes this time, one has to comment upon only seven, even then people are shying away. And I was so excited to know what you humans will say about my princess.
Five of the eight people saw their daughters as princess, while two, their Love as princess. No one wrote about a real princess, a non-reigning female member of a royal family. Only yours truly interpreted the word in a different light. So if rules permitted I would have voted for me. But since we cannot vote for self, I’ll try to find who else can get my vote…
Priyanka……A beggar’s daughter dancing with the mayor, do I see a Cinderella here.
Dok Saab……if the names influenced one’s destiny, Mangtu Ram of Jaipur would not have been known as Seth M. R.Jaipuria, Lalu would not have been a cabinet minister and Rajkumari would not have been sweeping DokSaab’s floors.
Truth Dude---Your poem reminded me of my dear friend Lord Summer the stallion. Nice use of the title to the poem, you once again got away without actually using the word. Lovely rhyming there, I know its difficult to rhyme so well.
Mandappa KC……At least here we have someone dressed like a princess.
Mickey, the monkey……It’s my dream!! To ride on the princess someday
Santonu……Why wait for someday, why not today, give that magical kiss. Kisses sometimes do wonder, may be your blind princess will be able to see your love after all.
Sarang Mahajan……Sir Sarang, your poem reminded me of my native place. Very imaginative use of the word. Since the day you have ventured into poetry, that horsey has fled away with his tail under his …..
GS Virmani……Virmani sir, you are not only weak in tenses, you are also weak in editing. Give me ten more words and I could have described whole of Sydney harbor in my take. Sir, you can’t have 25 overs in a twenty20 match.
finally my vote…….Priyanka. though Sarang and Dok Saab were also in my short list.
PSMy vote has nothing to do with Priyanka voting for me :) , in fact I was just a bit late in posting my comments and she posted first
komments. kriticism. fewer klases. and honestly not as good as we were. ok here goes. the good thing tho, is i wish i could spend some time, since they are lesser people, think they could do with lil words of help.
priyanka: nice. but i'm a lil confused. beggar's daughter is teh twist.? how come shes dancing with the major? lil confused..would u be kind enought o clarify.. but nice.
Dok Saab: very true. very raw. like most of ure stuff..raw in a very different way. you'd do a good job writing editorials to provoke.
Truth dude: something there. something not. i think you can do better
Mickey: Nice. kind of obvious twist. nice. but not great.
Santano: i love your take. professionally though, you should've used more colour in the first half, so as to lead into blind princess. like "green grass welcomed you"...shouldve done more like that with colour.
Sarang: superb. couple of sentences improvised and you d have a masterpiece.
GSV: i love your writing. your style. your take. your thoughts. but your grammar needs help. kriticism is tough, and i hurt to say this to you, but if you pay a lil moer attention to your gammar, you'd surely be my winner.
my vote: i think SARANG. river nara deserves it. brilliant creativity.
@ Dok saab and Malted Socktail...
A father always visualises the best for his daughter...be it there or not...and the beggar father has a tad too strong imagination..just like me...and he wants to block out the reality by imagining unreal things..that although he was on his simple begging route...with the traffic around him..still when he looked at his daughter...he visualised her having the best of everything...even a dance with the mayor...after all...its a privilege only the best can get.. :-)
thank u ... :)
Its thursday...and where's the verdikt..and rest of the komments...? :-o
priyanka- 'tad too strong imagination'.could have also imagined the beggar being the mayor himself;the only 'princess' this time..
dok saab-irony was resposible for writing , ironical was the writeup.
truth dude-a nice song
mandappa KC- could'nt find the reason of making of an anti-male pseudo-princess.
micky the monkey- literacy!
santonu-'someday i would hold"..why dont he holds everyday..
sarang mahajan- komments fir kabhi take vote instead.
hi all .. arrived late :(
Priyanka : hey does a father really do that ,imagine things for his daughter that are nearly just an impossibility (in the normal circumstances ) ?... and then settle for “Even in this tattered dress, she’s still my little princess.” ... ?
i guess you were toying with the fathers heart ,but i always felt a father is blind enough to never be able to see his daughter in tattered clothes ! a little malfunctioning brain i have got !!
but the take was in the normal sense quite nice :)
Dok Saab : just wondering why Rajat had to be a software engineer with Infosys ? why is poor infy being dragged into the klash ? the line that followed it gave a sufficient picture of his social position and setting of the klash.. and come on if she has been pampered so much and she chooses to carry the same attitude to her in laws place its obvious that the husband is going to scream !!
hey am i supposed to be sympathetic to the rajkumari here ? no na ! i reaaaally liked ur post :)
Truth Dude : hey if anyone were to propose me like this i would have been married by now ;)
ur post smells like perfume ! i loved ur "salt of my life "... after marriage i think u ll change it 2 onion/ bittergaurd /chilly !!
kidding :)
Mandappa KC : hey at the end of it ,it was just a shot !
cnt taste the power of princess in your take but cool though ..as some one commented "heroin" would have been more apt .
Mickey, the monkey :super shot ,out of the box thinking. your klash stands out :)
Santonu : "But I only wished.." ...y so ? :(
quite a delicate take ..nice
i think everyone needs to get rid of their blindness to be able to really see beauty but a walking stick is more dear to one who is physically blind..rather than to show the beautiful world through your eyes ,desire to create beauty in the world that they see ! does that make sense ?!! i guess i should get beaten up with the blind mans stick !!
Sarang Mahajan : a_m_a_zing !
hey one klash which does justice to the power and splender of the royal lass !!
GS Virmani : nice but the extra words werent a dire necessity !!
if i wer to vote i would have picked sarangs :)
hey klashers it good work but this time the killer instinct and sprint seems missing .. hey do i have the right to complain ? i havent even given the word a shot !!
willy quit talking about CAT that way and the slipping sand in the hour glass ! what is life if you cannot stand and stare ? (who said that ? i forgot ! )
bye , now i can have the rest of the white night to myself :)
....So Nikhil and Rangan has to vote to select the winner and then we can have the word of this week....Please klashers come back
Ahoy! All Klashers! My sincerest Apologies!
Time's a bitch and doesnt allow me to klash often!
But here's moi, donning the judge's cap!
Without wasting any time, I komment:
Priyanka: Well, I first thought it's meant to be touching. Somehow I felt something "lacking" in your klash. Is the twist in the end a gimmick to pull of a twist? You have written it very, very well, it does justice to the word too, but still, I dont like its end, no matter how surprising you wanted it to be.
Dok Saab: Beautifully written and an interesting take on the word, Sir. I like it.
Truth Dude: The word's missing but the feel's there. You've been writing well and this one just continues the quality of your writing if not surpass it.
Mandappa: Ah! A film set! Interesting take Sir Mandi, but just like Priyanka's the twist in the end seems forced to me. Nicely written. That's about it.
Mickey: LOL. This was nice. Verrry Interesting, ape. Keep it up!
Santonu: Well executed and true to the word as a theme. :) You are a good writer.
GSV: The word limit sir. I refuse to komment till you get it under 120.
Sarang: This is brilliant. Terrific imagination, nicely rhymed (though forced, at one instant) and absolutely in sync with the word as the central theme. Amazing writeup, bro.
MY VOTE: SARANG
@Santonu
Sir,i was d second to vote....as Willy Wingfoot!!!
@Neharika
All i can stare at is a bundle of stout,wicked books....
Kongrats Sarang !!, The moment I read your poem, I knew this was the winning take :).
But People , its not about winning as much as about taking part in it.
I know I am no writer, but I make it a point to take part. In fact I have never missed a klash, previous season and this one, even though the original konfessioner trio have often missed it. That does not mean I have work to do.
Every one of us is busy in some way or the other.
I am a practicing pediatrician, working in my clinic from 9 am till 10 pm. Even after that I get to wake up in the mid of the night for emergencies. But even then I get excited when I get a new word and keep thinking about the word while driving home, or when taking a shower, or when working on the treadmill.
Talking of not taking part(or kommenting) because one is very busy, makes me look like a Loafer (n. One who is habitually idle) May be I skip some klashes just to break this image.
I would suggest the original konfessioner trio to make this a fortnightly event to give those busy a chance to participate.
And thanks a ton !! every one for liking what I wrote, it feels nice to know that people read what you write and take time from there busy (and not so busy) schedule to komment and kriticize
people who said "heroin", i have one komment....
its heroine... not heroin...heroin is a drug :)
You miss one small e and look what it does to the word :). I use the spell checker before posting, but this omission fooled even the spell checker.
Thanks Mandappa (mandarin mandate mandamus, these are the spell check options for Mandappa ) for enlightening us.
@ Dok Saab
Well said, sir. But let me explain. When someone from the three of us is unable to participate, the reason mostly is that we are busy with another writing assignment. As of now I am working on a comic book and Nik on three or four scripts. So it becomes next to impossible to write even a paragraph on a different subject when one thing has occuupied the mind bigtime, right since the moment we open eyes till we close them at some odd hour in night.
But whenever I am working on some of my web solutions assignments, I can write even if I get twenty minutes' break. Which, I think is how in your case. Your job is far greater than what we do, being a doctor. Yet, it gives you a room to write klash. None of us feel the way you thought we might make you look, at all. I hope I have got my point across.
I am scribbling this from my client's PC, so I shall get back to work now. Will definitely drop my kommen soon.
Thanks for the votes, everyone! :-)
Sarang u forgot to write the word buddy :)....
thoughts thoughts everywhere ,not a word to klash on :(
Hell! Sorry! The word is "Wizard". Shal send the mail soon!
Hi. Sorry for kommenting so late, dear klashers, but the last week's been very hectic.
A few conceptions to clear -
1. The word is in the title which is a part of the poem.
2. Marriage maybe like bittergourd, but I like the bitter..I'd die with sweets.
3. Well hey, its a take like any other.
ok komments -
Priyanka
By far the most touching take on the word. Very well conceptualized. You go girl!
Dok Saab
A Cinderella. A reality. And brought together so well. In fact, it is the exact opposite of the Cinderella story…but the realism has an edge that is not easily forgotten! You rock!
TD
Perhaps a little childish take. But hey its still works for my better half, so I’m not complaining,
MKC
Very nice. I’m not like raving about it exactly…but neither am I tearing it apart. :)
M,TM
Nice, funny…I love your playful attitude man. Really appreciate it!! :)
Sontonu
I wrote bright blue eyes and changed it for deep expressive. Cuz my lady love’s eyes ain’t blue :)
That’s like a great poem you got there mate! Awesome.
SM
True princess indeed…and a majestic river. I loved the comparison. Really cool..wish I had more votes than one.
GSV
You’re a writer dude. Period!
My vote (no point now) but it’s GSV!
Wow! I have a LOT of katching up to do... :) Hi all!!! I missed the klahers and klash more than anything...ok that's a lie.. I missed Cinders the most haha.
I see there's a bit of a lull here?! :( why!!! I think a couple of final changes need to be made at the klash... I wont respond to all the komments on this post or the earlier but will definitely kritique all the lovely posts! need to go shower first though!!!
Be right back!!
What a Krown this time, Sarang Sir.
Very Bright !!
:D really nice krown, good that i didn't get 1 yet... since there is no judge from next time, lets everyones vote count, i mean whoever komments...
Maybe next time we get a banana, instead of this omelette, for a krown.
When will you put up the new Klash , Konfessioners.
Intezaar karte karte thak gayaa hoon, with nothing else to do .
haha.. I'm glad you liked the new krown, Sarang hates it!!! he wants the purple one! I refuse to give it! We should have absurd and cool krowns every month..its exciting!!! :)
No bananas yet Mickey!!! and yes Santonu, even if you dont have the time to komment..do vote!
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