The Wealth of Love

We are born of love, love is our mother

~ Rumi

The wealth of love is eternal

No force can away it snatch

An emotion so primal

None other can it match

Available in abundance

Yet so hard for us to find

Forgotten its existence

Lost in vestiges of mankind

The human race must transform

All acts with kndness must it do

Seems harder than the fiercest storm

Is to let the love shine through

Do we even comprehend

What love truly means

It's a divine gift He blessed

With no expectation no fees

Its value so priceless

No gem can hold its light

Yet for it we are careless

And against it often fight

Crossed over then we see its worth

For love is only bliss

Such a wasted time this birth

Love was all that is

The wealth of love is eternal

No force can away it snatch

An emotion so primal

None other can it match

~x~

Written for:
Midweek Motif at Poet's United prompt "Wealth"
Imaginary Garden with Real Toads - Quote


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Love Is Not A Greeting Card

The love story of Lord Rama and Sita is timeless and Divine. A love for all seasons.

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What would I say to Sita if I were Lord Rama?

Oh Sita, behold the resplendent full moon that hides when you walk by
For it cannot match your effulgent light that is a beacon in space

Oh Sita, the flowers of the forest long to be fragrant like you
For you are the sweet scent of purity and joy

Oh Sita, the birds of the world listen intently when you speak
For your words are the melodious sound of the Universe

Oh Sita, without you this Rama is like a boat lost at sea
For you are balm that soothes the turbulent waters of my mind

Oh Sita, without you this Rama is bereft of life itself
For you are the essence of my soul and the breath of my cosmos


What would I say to Lord Rama if I were Sita?

Oh Rama, the glorious sun is dark like the night
For it cannot match the brilliance of your iridescence

Oh Rama, even the mighty thunderous waterfall cannot match your strength
For it is your gentleness that conquers the most formidable foe

Oh Rama, the animals of the forest are mesmerised by your gracefulness
And the lion bows at your feet not from fear but reverence

Oh Rama, without you this Sita has no existence
For you are the life force within me

Oh Rama, this Sita thanks the Lord of all Universes
For each moment in time, for the honour of your love, for the bliss that is you.

~x~

Hari Anant Hari Katha Ananta

(Lord Rama is eternal, infinite, timeless and so are His tales)

Lord of all Universes = Lord Rama
Hari = Lord Vishnu = Lord Rama
Anant / Ananta = eternal, infinite, timeless
Katha = story / tale / narration

Written for:
Poet's United Midweek Motif - A poem for a loved one - Love is not a greeting card
Blog-A-Rhythm - Love for all seasons

Linking to:
Poetry Pantry #239
Hyde Park Poetry
The Tuesday Platform


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The Choices We Make

My 50th poem!

I wrote a poem for a guest post I did for Carol Graham's blog Battered Hope early this month. Thought I would share it here as well.

I wrote this poem on the bus on the way to work. Observing people on the bus and outside on the streets was the inspiration for this poem.

We reach our destinations

In our own time and way

Many stops at many stations

Sometimes we go, sometimes we stay

Many points of destiny

Some choices we can make

Don't give it too much scrutiny

There's always give and take

All things in life must balance

No constant joy or sorrow

Most things are not a game of chance

In His plan we trust and follow.

~x~

Linking to:

Poetry Pantry #237

Real Toads Tuesday Platform 

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The Spirit Of Love

Prompts this week:
One Single Impression - prompt #279 - Demon
Verse First - Lock
Linking up to Write Tribe picture prompt

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Verse First prompt:

Virginia Woolf once said, "“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”

Upon consideration, one realizes that being locked - in  or out- can be literal, emotional, medical, figurative.  And there are other meanings to ponder. A lock can be a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed. It can be a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it. Or a lock can be a simple strand or cluster of hair.

Write a poem around the notion of a lock, using whatever meaning sets free your creativity.

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Lock the door of my heart so I can behold only you

Hold the key in your hands to the end of time

Let my love not waver nor question this bond

Let my soul shine through like a beacon of love

You and I have sailed the tumultuous seas

In millennium after millennium

Locked our hands that none could break apart

And sang together the songs of our souls

Let me hear again the melody that entices my spirit

And binds me ever closer to you

Let me rest awhile in your loving embrace 

So my weary soul may dance again; renewed, refreshed, awakened

~x~

OSI prompt - Demon

The mind is in constant battle with the heart and is the mastermind behind that creeping fear.

Let the demon of doubt vanish from my mind

Let him not start a feud with my heart
Let him no place in my existence find

Let him not tear my soul apart

For love is the key to conquer all

With faith in my heart I free my mind

The demon of doubt then begins to fall

And unlocked are the fearful chains that bind

Also linking to dVerse Open Link Night #105

Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation)

Written for:  Poet's United Mid Week Motif  and  Poetry Jam

Mid Week Motif - Newness
In 75 words or less: A New Year.  Again.  Are you a fan of "new"? Or are you tired of the whole idea of "new," preferring the tried and true? 

Poetry Jam - Fire
So what does fire mean to you 

When I first saw the fire prompt, the first thing that came into my head was the sun. I start each day with the Surya Namaskar so combining the two prompts I came up with:

The fiery rays of the sun

Heralds a new day

I bow in reverence

And duly pray

Surya Dev

May we feel your warmth

May your light shine bright

As we go forth

May our minds be illuminated

Like you light up the earth

May our thoughts be enlightened

And to new ideas give birth

Let each day begin

With the Surya Namaskar

Let us reflect your light

Like the moon and the stars.

~x~

Surya Dev (Sun God)
Surya Namaskar - Sun Salutation


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In A Time Gone By

Written for: Real Toads and  Blogadda WoW

Linking to:  Poetry Pantry #182

Real Toads prompt

What would it be like if we were stuck in (or have regressed to) the past? Write from the perspective of yourself or another person (real or imagined) who can’t seem to live in the present or look forward; someone who dwells in a supposedly more magnificent or rewarding past time, and behaves accordingly.

Blogadda WoW prompt
Your entry must contain a word in all its three degrees of comparison. For example: Good, Better, Best! or Great, Greater, Greatest!

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He looked magnificent

Lean and tall

Upon his chariot

I watched in awe

His bow and his arrows

He carried with grace

Strength of a warrior

But gentle of face

He seemed so familiar

Yet I knew him not

Who was this stranger?

With eyes tender and soft

Graceful and ethereal

He looked so Divine

Joyous he made me feel

Somehow I knew he was mine

Did he know that I watched him?

For suddenly he smiled

My senses he made them swim

As his eyes beheld mine

My garland of flowers 

Upon his neck looked so grand

His heart he empowered

Into my trembling hands

In a time long gone 

Was this love sweet and pure

A match made in Heaven

Through aeons it endures

Let me stay in that moment 

When his eyes beheld mine

And true love was unspoken

And hearts were entwined

For great is He, my love story
Greater than any in time
The greatest ever in glory
And supremely sublime

My take on Sita's view of Lord Rama

(And don't forget to read Lord Rama's view of Sita at She Looked Most Beautiful)


This post is a part of Write Over the Weekend, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by BlogAdda.

and it got chosen as a WOW post

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Bolt From The Blue

Written for:  Verse First   Poetry Jam

taken on the way to the farmer's market

A bolt from the blue that changes perspectives

The world suddenly seems like a different place

An ordinary scene looks amazingly attractive

Long reaching branches of green look like lace

Each curve of the lush rolling hillside held me captive

The river seemed peaceful and so full of grace

This masterpiece, astounding, sheer magic, and oh it put a smile on my face

~x~

Verse First
Writer's often assume they must be in a particular place, using specific tools, with just the write atmosphere to write. I challenge that. Today, do not allow yourself to follow you own ritual and routine. Go to a place where you've never before written. Then write.  One poem. 7 lines in length. Make it perfect. 

Poetry Jam
So what does the image of Lightning bring to your mind?


This morning I went to the farmers market as I do each Saturday. And during the drive there I watch the scene go by without any thought or appreciation, but today suddenly for a short moment in time (like a bolt of lightening from the blue), the usual, everyday, ordinary scenery looked amazingly beautiful.

And so I wrote this poem imagining I was in that car this morning - a virtual drive - Never written a poem during a virtual drive nor of the drive to the market!

How uncanny that both prompts today at Verse First and Poetry Jam fit in perfectly with this morning's sudden moment of wonder.


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The Lesson

Today I have the privilege of being the host for The Writers' Post blog hop and my chosen prompt is "The Lesson".

My belief is that we all arrive into this world into this life so our souls may learn and grow.

So life presents us with situations to learn the lessons we are here to learn. And the situations present themselves over and over again until the lesson is learned.

If we look back at our lives, we can see a pattern emerge and from that we can establish the lesson(s) we are meant to learn. Steve Jobs put this quite nicely as "looking back to join the dots".

If the lesson evades us I believe that we carry it through from life to life until eventually we conquer and move on.

Over the years I have realised that there are a few lessons I'm pretty sure my soul is here to learn. Perhaps my karma is intertwined into this.

One of these I am sure is forgiveness.  Looking back to "join up the dots", I can see so many situations where an opportunity to learn forgiveness was presented. And I have finally learned to let go of bitterness where events have occurred that have been hurtful or where I felt betrayed or wronged.

So here's a poem I wrote and stored away for that opportunity to share. 

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Oh forgiveness, you demanding friend

Through many journeys my soul you bend

A heavy load I carry through aeons

In life after life as queens or minions

My spirit is worn down and heavily chained

That elusive lesson from my mind refrained

A flash of light, a beautiful blue

A Divine intervention experienced by few

A message is handed in the kindest of ways

The mind is enlightened, dissolved is the haze

In anger I walked off, tired and weary

In proving my love was pure and worthy

I should've forgiven, looked into your heart

We may have journeyed together, instead of apart.

~

This poem is inspired by a past life reading that I had. It was one of the most amazing experiences I ever had. So truly the lesson of forgiveness I have carried over from a life a long long long long time ago. 

So what is The Lesson for you?

Fact or fiction, poetry or prose, take this prompt as you will and share The Lesson. Then link up with the linky below and please link back to my post.

I look forward to reading your lesson.


Also linking this post to: Poets United Poetry Pantry and dVerse

Appetite and Omniscience

The prompt this week at Verse First is Appetite.  But as I missed last week's prompt Omniscience I thought I would combine both

And also linking to One Single Impression - Fragile

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A soothing melody

Invaded my daydream

Gently flowing

Like a singing stream

It teased my thoughts

It disturbed my reverie

It opened my eyes

It shook my lethargy

It came and went 

And it was haunting

I was captivated

It increased my longing

I closed my eyes

To capture its essence

It filled me with bliss

I felt His presence

Omniscient

All pervading

Love ineffable

Ever aiding

His Divine grace

Soothed my soul

My appetite insatiable

For His love and to extol

~x~

When we hear the beautiful strains of the Lord's bansuri (flute) we are blessed and yet we so easily forget His love and grace. His melody is everlasting, always enticing, yet we choose only to listen when we need something.

Our love for the Lord is so fragile

It waxes and wanes like the moon

But His love is steadfast without guile

Eternal, and ready to grant any boon

Also linking to dVerse Open Link Night #104

A Place in the Universe

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A benevolent Universe

Lights my path

Sending me messages

in a myriad of ways

Helping me traverse

through this lifetime

as in lifetimes before

My immortal lover

Holding me 

in an eternal embrace

Leading me 

In a cosmic dance 

Comforting me

Protecting me

From the beyond

My Spiritual guide

Taking my soul 

On a journey 

Through space and time

Helping me 

to liberate myself

From the effects of Karma

 to attain Moksha

My place in the Universe

Is with my Divine Soulmate

In His heart

By His side

Helping humanity

Together

From age to age

To eternity

Moksha - liberation from samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth

Written for Verse First - A place in the Universe

Linking to:    dVerse Open Link Night #97  The Poetry Pantry #150

Garden of Dreams

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A beautiful meadow surrounded by hills

A waterfall gentle and grand

A place in nature where I connect with Spirit

Where the answers I seek are found 

A place for poor children, safe and fun

Making their wishes come true

Down by the seaside surrounded with palm trees

Watching the ocean blue

This is the path that my soul wants to tread on

This is the way to my bliss

I sit in quiet meditation in my garden of dreams

Walking the road that is His

~x~

Written for  Verse First - An Authentic Life

Linking to  Poetry Pantry #149    dVerse Open Link Night #95