Category: Poetry

• Thankful Thursday – Infinitely grateful

  

  I chanced upon this blog hop, Thankful Thursday hosted by Brian, today and I just had to participate. I’m thankful that I got a clean chit from the doctor today. After two months of a health scare, blood tests, an ultrasound, a minor surgery and a hysteroscopy, the doctor took less than thirty seconds to […]

  Smitha V

  July 28, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry

  #blessed, #eugi'sweeklyprompt, #gratitude, #inspiration, #photoprompt, #poetry, #thankfulthursday, #Thankyou, #truth

• Waiting- the antonym for ‘living’

  

  Have you ever given it a thought- Why it takes so long for rice to cook, or for milk to boil when you’re waiting? Why does rice get overcooked and milk boil over when you’ve turned away for what seems like no more than a moment? Why does a journey sometime feel like forever And […]

  Smitha V

  July 27, 2022

  Poetry

  #don'twait, #don'tworry, #gratitude, #inspiration, #liveinthepresent, #living, #motivation, #philosophy, #poem, #poetry, #self-help, #today

• We are connected

  

  The train is chugging along. We’ve booked seats in the AC compartment- the windows are sealed, so, you can’t open them. Since it is the monsoon (rainy) season, it’s cold in the compartment with the AC on. So, I step out with my husband to take a break from the AC and I stand in […]

  Smitha V

  June 29, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry, Travel

  #culture, #journey, #life, #love, #nature, #people, #poem, #relationship, #SoCs, #statesofindia, #train, #truth, #unityindiversity, #weareone

• In the land of my forefathers

  

  I wrote this poem on Father’s day but couldn’t post it then as I was traveling. Returning to my hometown after three years and three deaths, wasn’t easy. I wasn’t even sure why I was going there except as a mark of respect for the people who were responsible for the person I am today. […]

  Smitha V

  June 21, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry, Travel

  #aftercovid, #childhood, #community, #family, #fathersday, #home, #India, #life, #Mangalore, #memories, #neighbours, #poem, #returninghome, #roots, #SoCs

• Just enough

  

  I had written an earlier poem on the first showers Mumbai received on 10th June. I thought the Monsoons had come but it turned out to be a trick nature played on us. After the 10th, it rained on the 16th- just enough to lower the temperature. This poem is a stream-of-consciousness poem that came […]

  Smitha V

  June 18, 2022

  Poetry

  #abundance, #gratitude, #inspiration, #joy, #justenough, #lifelessons, #monsoon, #nature, #philosophy, #poem, #rains, #SoCs, #Streamofconsciousness