Category: Mum’s World

• Published: A wake-up call

  

  I’m happy to share my poem, ‘A wake-up call’ has been published by MasticadoreUSA. A shout-out to Barbara, the editor of the e-zine, for accepting the poem. “A wake-up call” by Smitha Vishwanath Publicado por MEELOSMOMel19 FEBRERO, 2023 I The day before the surgery The morning I went for a check-up I had no idea they’d…

  Smitha V

  February 20, 2023

  Experiences, Mum’s World, Poetry

  #children, #diary, #experience, #hospital, #inspiration, #life, #live, #love, #mother, #poetry, #published, #purpose, #strength, #surgery, #wakeupcall

• Seven Things to Do to stop yourself from falling into the ‘Indifference’ Trap

  

  We live in unprecedented times’ — how often do we hear this these days? The phrase has been abused, and I risk repeating it at the cost of sounding cliche. ‘Death’, as in Emily Dickinson’s poem, is stopping by, whether or not someone stops for it. He has proved to be an avid traveler and travels quicker…

  Smitha V

  May 27, 2021

  Experiences, Mum’s World

  #care, #children, #humanity, #indifference, #inspiration, #kindness, #life, #parenting, #passion, #people, #savingthefuture, #selfimprovement, #teachingchildren

• Lockdown Diaries : Saving Me

  

  I don’t know which phase of the ‘lockdown’ or the ‘release from lockdown,’ phase we are in. I’ve lost track. It’s now…let me count…from 22nd March till date…around four months since this never-ending nightmare began. For all those who’ve counted, it’s 116 days as I write this and since I started doing the cleaning, mopping,…

  Smitha V

  July 18, 2020

  Experiences, Mum’s World

  #coronatimes, #diary, #dresswell, #inspiration, #mothers, #parents, #people, #saveyourself, #wakeupcall

• What do we really want for our children?

  

  It’s that time of the year in India, when you find students pouring over their books, papers, laptops. I see them with their noses dipped at the building gates awaiting the school bus, in the coffee shop with their ear phones on – to shut the noise out, on park benches amidst cawing crows and…

  Smitha V

  February 16, 2020

  Experiences, Mum’s World

  #children, #exams, #goodpeople, #inspiration, #life, #mothers, #motivation, #parenting, #parents, #people, #reality, #timewithkids, #truth

• Satan Beware a Mother’s Wrath!

  

  Wrote this poem on the prompt “Satan”. I see him busy destroying the world, wreaking havoc. I see him in broken relations around me. And then at times, I see him closer, at my doorstep.       I saw it that day, The glint in her eyes, vicious, dark, disquieting I heard what she…

  Smitha V

  September 28, 2018

  Mum’s World, Poetry

  #children, #faith, #family, #love, #mother, #mother’s promise, #parenting, #poems, #poemsonlife, #poetryonrelationships, #satan, #savechildren, #values, Mum’s World, Poetry