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Poems April 26-30
Poems written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge 2024. A Map Of The Heart I traced the shape of my heart.I traced the arteries and the veins, the aorta, and the auricle, studied the chambers and the valves.But they hid their secret deep within their red folds.I put my ears close…Real close and Continue reading
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Poems – April 6-10
April 6 to 10 – written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge. Everywhere I want to be everywhere.Like in that Michelle Yeoh film – everything, everywhere, strumming through dimensions vibrating like a higher being.Maybe then I could havechanged outcomes,changed the past, present, and what is yet to come.Maybe.But I am not living in Continue reading
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Again
April 4 – written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge. There’s something gently heroic, about you and me.The simple act of getting off the bed,placing our achy soles on the ground,limping to the loo, dragging that borderline obese bodythrough the grind of the day.Epic love stories written in countless wet towels picked off Continue reading
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Lessons Learnt
from something as implacable as grief There is a reluctance in me to write. Rather baffling, given that writing provides me more relief and clarity than any other form of therapy. Often, I don’t even understand what I am feeling or thinking, until I write it all down. Part of my writing journey is to Continue reading
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