A birthday poem for a dear friend.
HBD Peter
Browsing Category Poetry
My tryst with wordsmithing
Smile
When a dear friend asked me as to why I looked grim in a recent photo, he triggered in me a simple poetic response. Here is it versed as “Smile”.
Wise & Otherwise
Seeded by Ramesh Gopalswamy’s post who wrote
“Even though I am old I may still be ‘otherwise’
but the second part of sentence is definitely valid”
in response to a poster that said “The reason I am old and wise is God protected me when I was young and stupid”.
Hacked
Written for AP contest “The Wilderness make your own poem 17 words only include as AN”.
https://allpoetry.com/contest/2787696-The-Wilderness-make-your-own-poem-17-words-
End-o-scopy
Poem written for AllPoetry contest based on the word prompt “Endoscopy” that had to be 50 words or less.
The making of a verse
Triggered by word “instinctively” that was part of a comment by a good friend on a prior poem
Unified
In today’s age of speed and FOMO, every moment is a race, of doing more so that you do not miss out. To grab satisfaction by ensuring that you have not missed it and that never happens. Why ? Well, satisfaction is not something to chase down and catch, it happens when you slow down, immerse and become “Unified”.
The ephemeral II
Continuing on the theme of ephemeral, Maya is beautifully personalised as a imaginary sphere created by multiple spinning circles, each circle representing the eternal cycle of creation and destruction. Two metaphors woven into a tapestry of words as “The ephemeral II”.
Nomad
Once upon a time we lived in the open with the largest dangerous animals, moving around, hunting them, starkly in contrast to today. Now, to protect ourselves from a tiny invisible virus we stay inside and fight with a needle, travel and movement shunned. Tech has grown immensely that it seems to the ‘only’ company to a human now. So, how do we free ourselves? Read this creative “Nomad”.
Assimilation
We were free once roaming the world, quite different from today where we are glued to a device in our palm tethered to Internet. Well, tech has rooted us but allowed us to roam virtually. What is this? Amazing transformation, or is it “Assimilation”?