A creative personalisation of cancerous growth as “Late”.
Late
Browsing Category Poetry
My tryst with wordsmithing
Bye Amma
My mother of four-score quietly crossed over to the other side(not Covid). Here is a short verse on this transition as “Bye Amma”.
Sleep
Have you seen a loved one slowly ebbing away? Here it is, the feelings versed in the poem ‘Sleep’.
..tomy
Dedicated to cancer survivors.
Lonely?
A digital painting by Aishwarya Vidhya Raghunath stirred the wordsmith in me. A brilliant rendition it is, of the darkness of fiery Corona red, the lonely quarantine nursed with love from afar and the golden sliver peeking, a sign of hope.
Here it is in verse form as “Lonely?”.
Thank you Aishwarya.
Heartless
The apathy/insolence of the call for positivity material for upcoming ‘Mann ki baat’ was the trigger for this. God help us.
Poet & Covid
A message from Susan Jagannath on “How will the pandemic affect poetry” written by Julia Alvarez, triggered by creative juices resulting in “Poet & Covid”.
Thank you Susan Jagannath, the writer of Amazon bestsellers.
walls
The news item of a cremation ground being walled with tin sheets to (possibly) hide deaths due to Covid startled me. The word ‘walls’ stuck in my mind, connecting the various walls that have come up and divided us. Precipitating finally in a shrill cry ‘It’s time for the walls to go”, here is my outburst as a creative “walls”.
failure
When you face a crushing failure, what do you do?Read this poem ‘failure’, written for @AllPoetry brevity contest, to be written in 10 words.
English countryside
When I was in cycling in the English countryside as part of training and acclimatising for London-Edinburgh-London 1400KM brevet, the wonderful scenery all around brought out the wordsmith in me.