Tag: #poem
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Nature, heals all!
My mind a blank slate, My heart, a placid state, I wake up, at the break of dawn, The pillows still damp, I gently tip-toe… The sound of the ocean beckons, A drizzle; my drowsy eye awakens, The waves rising, falling, and rise again- I stand still, in awe, at the shores… The…
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Daily Prompt: Retreat
via Daily Prompt: Retreat I tried to be friendly, I tried to show empathy, But you only opened my deepest wounds; And I had to retreat! You say I am always talking, You say you are always listening, But it was you I was entertaining; And again I had to retreat! You never tried once…
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Old, Ordinary, “OR”
via Daily Prompt: Or Got the daily prompt today- ‘OR’. Strange at first I thought, but this is what sprung out of it…a poem around the insignificant, simple, seemingly petty “or”. Should I wear this OR that? Should we have a pet dog OR a furry cat? Should we eat Chinese OR Indian? Are not questions that are alien……
Smitha V
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Holding on …keeps me alive
I had written this poem when I lost my mother, 10 years ago. A friend asked me to post it and so I have. Someone told me then, time is the best healer. I had not believed it then . In fact, I hated those who said it, for it felt like they were saying that I would eventually forget and to…
Smitha V
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The Speaker’s Ordeal…
via Daily Prompt: Dilemma This poem is for anybody frightened of public speaking. Preparation, Practise, Perseverance is what all good speakers do. You can too!!! The room is full, the lights are bright, A silence, like the dead of night, They gauge me with piercing eyes, A cough here, a sneeze there, the shuffling of…