A secret door...

Open Sesame readers describe in verse journeys they have imagined

Uncovering stories

It was brown and red

Inside my head.

I could see it through my mind’s eye;

As I turned the knob slowly 

I uncovered a story.

Filled with colours, reaching the sky

Many ideas, stories, creations —

All due to my imagination.

You can unlock it now,

If you turn that phone off soon!

It’ll remain a secret, you see;

Unless you use your mind’s key!

— Anvi Sharma, 12

Bengaluru, Karnataka

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Road to success

Patience, hard work and goals,

Leads to something much more,

Something which isn’t for few souls,

It leads to a secret door!

To ‘success’ that is the solitude;

Something that is away from attitude!

Step out to something far and bright

not to forget what consistency does;

You can do it, put your might,

something you won’t forget in a fuss,

Work and Work, and win your game

That will lead to eternal fame!

— Shriniketh B S, 11

Bengaluru, Karnataka

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Peeking through the keyhole of a dream

One dawn, as Rhea  was walking through the garden ’twas

She saw a rustle through the leaves of an old tree covering an abandoned garden door.

She looked behind the leaves and found, 

The key to the ancient door as the sun dawned,

And grasped the key and turned the lock.

But just then, she was blocked by a feeling of dread,

She quickly went through before the call for her daily bread.

When she went in, the door was locked 

Rhea didn’t like the place, so she turned around, shocked 

And pushed and shouted and asked herself, “Why?”

She woke up with a cry

Realising it was but a dream, when Mom came rushing as Rhea screamed.

— Amelia Mariam Lobo, 9
Mangaluru, Karnataka