I had promised that the next poem would be a joyous one, but there’s so much happening in the world that doesn’t make for happy words.
I hope to sit in my little garden tomorrow and be inspired to write about hope and beauty and courage and contentment. Until then, here’s today’s poem:
Author: Upreet Dhaliwal
The littlest things remind me of you – a Poem
Grief is weakness and strength; an ending and a beginning; a shattering and an anchoring; it is a journey without a predeterminable destination.
Wishing everyone happiness and light and ending with a promise that the next post will be a joyous one…
Walled in, Left out – a Poem
There is a cost to every decision we make – there is gain, but also loss. How we find balance depends on factors that are different for all of us…
A Square Poem…or Two
Last week was the first I’d heard of the Square Poem or the Square Stanza. It is an utterly fascinating concept and [not-surprisingly] quite hard to pull off.
The trick is that the poem should read the same vertically down the page and horizontally across the page. Obviously then, and also to make it a true ‘square’, the number of words per line must equal the number of lines. This form is attributed to Lewis Carroll…
War: a #poem
Is it greed; insecurity; a hunger for power; hatred for humankind and for every living being? How is war ever an answer to anything? How can war answer the questions of food security, and health, and happiness, and shelter for all the creatures on this planet?
Healing #Haikus
These Haikus are about the power of Nature to help us find solace in a world gone crazy.
A winter that will end
Sometimes, winter is more than just a time of year. Sometimes, it is a desolation that grows out of hurt and harm.
Here’s a poem that says it better than prose can…
Hurt & Heart – a poem
Memories – good and bad – serve a purpose. They remind us of times when things were beautiful and we had hope, and they warn us of what could go wrong despite the best intentions in the world.
Here’s a poem about that…
Of Enemies & Friends – a poem
Every so often I find myself sabotaging my hopes and dreams.
Too ambitious, too new, too unusual, too extravagant, I’ll say, and I’ll close my mind to what could be.
Here’s poem about that…
An interventional cardiologist reads InVerse Medicine & it’s the most ‘heart’-warming thing
Interventional cardiologist and lifestyle guru, Dr Bharat Rawat, took a copy of my poetry book on a hike in beautiful wilderness somewhere in Indore.
With an appreciative audience of primates in the backdrop, and humans in the foreground (I hope), he read out one of the poems from the collection. Have a listen…