Wise Words Wednesday 24.4.2019

“Life is simple. We insist on making it complicated. ”
Confucius

This is the first Wise Words Wednesday that I am doing here. I know I have a lot to share, but I just haven’t found all the time to do it properly. I have photos, stories, and experiences to share about life in Germany, and I will in due time. Till then, have a great day everyone 🙂 Thank you for all the support even when I’ve been gone. I have posts ready and I will be publishing left, right and center from now on. Wish me luck!

Wise Words Wednesday 26.4.17

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

― Henry David Thoreau

Hallowed By Time (NaPoWriMo)

It’s National Poetry Writing Month in April. Although I don’t live in the United States, I can easily be a part of the festivities involving literature. I am also late, April is about to end but I’ll try to write some more poems in lieu of #NaPoWriMo. Here’s my poem titled ‘Hallowed By Time‘

Every once in a while
I pop in to see
The lone hut with the withering bent oak
The house with the cracking ceiling
The roadside solitary sedan that was
Once an expensive car-on-four-working-wheels.

The broken bench in a park,
The leaf from a low, bent branch.
The dead of a pigeon’s nest.
The dying of the humans rest

Wise Words Wednesday 4.19.17

“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.”

― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Wise Words Wednesday 5.4.17

“I thought about how the smallest of things could set someone on a bustling fire when you didn’t have the right shoulder to lean on.”

― Diyar Harraz, Like The Starlings

Desolate

Languished innards
A rage gains traction.

Putrid with power
Of your behemoth play.

Single swift motion
But a slash and a burn.

One soul surrendered
Broken, two bodies lay.

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-Saloni

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Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in a brief literary escape from reality, but in the gift of hope that goodness truly is more powerful than evil and that even the darkest reality can lead to a Happily Ever After. Do not take that gift of hope lightly. It has the power to conquer despair in the midst of sorrow, to light the darkness in the valleys of life, to whisper “One more time” in the face of failure. Hope is what gives life to dreams, making the fairy tale the reality.

—L.R. Knost