Merry Christmas to everyone!
May we find peace and contentment, tolerance and love.
Love everyone – even those who sometimes forget to love you back…
Category: Poetry
So cold and getting colder: #Haiku
I love winter in North India because I get to put on my gorgeous cold-weather clothes: coats, boots, socks, scarves, cowls, mittens…
Gossamer memories – a poem
If there is one thing I would never wish on anyone, it’s this – cognitive decline and the loss of memory and judgment.
Not the happiest poem in the world…
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:
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?
Blue and Yellow: a #poem
However much I want to believe in the power of good and however much I want to have faith and hold on to hope, I see new evidence everyday of much that is wrong with the world. Sometimes all one can do is to grieve and to pray that good prevails over evil…
Healing #Haikus
These Haikus are about the power of Nature to help us find solace in a world gone crazy.