Where The Mind Is Without Fear

 NaPoWriMo-2024

Day=24

Prompt: to write a poem that begins with a line from another poem (not necessarily the first one), but then goes elsewhere with it. This will work best if you start with a line of poetry you remember, but without looking up the whole original poem. The idea is for the original to furnish the backdrop for your work without influencing you so much that you feel as if you are just rewriting the original! 

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Where the mind is without fear

Nothing can stop us from finding our star 

This world belongs to all of us

There is space for every being

However small or big 

Finding happiness 

In the smallest things

To find the heart

To feed a hungry beggar

Showing kindness towards others

Who are less fortunate

Being kind to the voiceless ones

Sharing a piece of our life with them

Finding Happiness

In the first ray of the sun

To feel alive and to exist

In the light of a moonbeam

To smell the fragrance of a jasmine

In the smile of a child

When pain touches us unseen

In the whisp of a cool breeze

In the fragrance of a petrichor

Under the shade of a huge tree

On a hot summer afternoon

So many wonderful magical moments

If we look around to make life more content

Where the mind is without fear

Nothing can stop us from finding our star.

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My Super Hero!

NaPoWriMo-2024

Day-23

Prompt: To write about a superhero.

Painting by Sunita

I don't have enough words

To describe you

I only know that I have

Only one superhero

And that is you.

Decades have passed

You have crossed you

I couldn't find

Anybody as perfect as you.

Your gentle nature

Your kindness toward others

Your insatiable ability 

To learn, unlearn, and learn

To accept every adversity

With a smile

Such great qualities

You were endowed.

My superhero! 

From you, I was born

You chiseled me in your mold

Everything that breathes and exists

In my world

It is a blessing from you

I am trying to follow

The best of whatever you were.

If I could be born again

I would like to be born

As your daughter again.

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Cricket Maniac

NaPoWriMo-2024

Day-22

Prompt: To write a poem where two unlikely things have a fight. For me, T20 and TEST MATCH are two different things :D

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"T20..hmmm, aah,

What a waste of talent!"

Said the Test match.

Wasting overs

In search of pennies.

The bowlers and batsmen

In colorful attires

Looking like clowns in the gutter!

Rushing adrenaline and nothing more!

Going merry go around with the highest bidders.

International players hogging the limelight

Playing for other nations. What a shame!

For the sake of brownie points.

Whatnot you are embroiled!

Drugs, match-fixing, late-night parties, and an egoistic show!

Wasted a gentlemen's game, you imbecile!!!

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Hah! Scoffs  T20

"What do you know about talent?"

You just strutter and preen over

On the grassy mound in your whites!

Five days wasted

Just playing defense

And not scoring any runs.

Scorching in the hot sun

With hardly any spectators

To appreciate your lazy players!

Scrubbing the ball over balls!!!

 Look at me! I save time and money

My aficionados earn millions 

Showing their power with a bat and a ball!

They gain fans across the word

And not stuck in their archaic hegemony!

In the 21st century

Time is money!

So, accept your fate Mr. Test Match

You are not welcome in our new world!

Participating in: NaPoWriMo-2024

Blue! The Lifeline

NaPoWriMo-2024

Day-21

Prompt: Write a poem that repeats or focuses on a single color.

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Blue, like life

Cruises in my heart and soul

It caresses my senses 

Through the racing seasons.

In childhood it inked and

Danced on the sprinkled uniforms.

My wardrobe filled with sarees is dotted 

With varied blue shades.

The mundanest of the things

Are filled with splashes of blue.

Blue, like the ocean

Touches my stormy emotions

I breathe the waves on the sandy dunes

The blue sky brings serenity

A whispering silence wraps, in

A flagship of stability.

I look around to find peace

In the wisdom of the smallest  things

As I stroll in the garden

The smiling blue  peas greet my senses

The blue wildflowers, the bluebirds perched on the trees,

The bluest of sun-kissed skies

Fill my life with wonder in enchanting moments.

Peace and serenity touch my life 

Wrapped in the most beautiful blue shades.

    

  

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The Mahatma

NaPoWriMo-2024

Day-20

Prompt: To write a poem that recounts a historical movement.

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He didn't know what lay ahead

As he boarded the train 

In South Africa

He was a gentleman

Who was on a mission

His clients were waiting

To find justice in the reign of racism

His voice mattered the most

He was an erudite Barrister

He sat in the  coach of the train

Waiting to get to his destination

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door

Two uniformed policemen

Questioned him and asked for his credentials

He showed them like any gentleman would do

The Inner Temple graduate didn't impress their skin

What mattered the most was his color

They caught hold of his collar

And dragged him through the compartment

And threw him out on the platform.

That was the turning point in his life...

This man couldn't digest that insult

He took an oath to show these people

That colored people are also human beings

He was clear now... He sat out to show these racists

Anything is possible if one is truthful to oneself

His single-minded resolution 

To bring the racist empire to its knees

Culminated into many historical events

And paved the path to free a nation

From two hundred years of suppression.

He used two weapons to fight against the aggressors

Truth and Non-violence

The mantra that gave freedom to a nation.

His ideals were so powerful 

It inspired many great leaders

Such as Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and others

To find their voices to fight against apartheid 

And to voice their belief in human rights.

"My Experiments with Truth" is a bible for many.

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Stillness

NaPoWriMo-2024

Day-19

Prompt: To write, What are you haunted by, or what haunts you? Write a poem responding to this question. Then change the word haunt to hunt.

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Haunted by your presence

in the shadows of the night

Remembering, the bewitching 

passionate smile

that stoked the heart 

crushing with desires

in the rain-soaked evenings.

The inseparable us

created many magical memories

swaying on the wave of distant chimes.

The evenings are not the same anymore,

those cherishing memories, 

hunt like a shadow

for the lost time.

There is an echo in 

the stillness, the walls 

which time couldn't mend

will carry the bottled-up pain

haunting till eternity.

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Inspiration

NaPoWriMo-2024

Day-18

Prompt:  To write a poem in which the speaker expresses the desire to be someone or something else, and explains why.

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palette of colors

energetic and peaceful

sepia desires

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Dancing Queen

NaPoWriMo-2024

Day-17

Prompt: To write a poem that is inspired by a piece of music, and that shares a title with that piece of music.

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When the heart 

Is achy and  heavy,

I put on my favorite music 

And let go of the worry

Not bothered about 

What others will say or feel sorry 

It is my time to heal 

And feel my inner energy.

Breaking the barriers, 

Letting my hair loose

The music pushes away 

The innumerable ghosts

I am the queen of my freedom

I am the queen of my life.

The demons 

Don't matter anymore

The beat of my strength 

Makes me stronger

People will talk, 

People will bicker

Who cares 

When I am my own boss.

I can dance

I can sing

I can feel

The rushing of the wind

Through the soft thud of my heart.

Music heals my soul

It brings me solace

In the realm of rhapsody

I find my serenity.

I make  my memories

I am the creator of my dreams.

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The Missing Link

NaPoWriMo-2024

Day-16

Prompt: To write a poem describing an object or place, and then end with an abstract line that has no connection with the object or place but in reality it does.

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The table is strewn 

With different shades

Sharply pointed 

Ready to take the world

Red, blue, pink, yellow

And the others  follow too

The white page tempts.

The hand moves slowly

Drawing, erasing, drawing quietly.

The pink takes the lead

But, the blue is not far behind

The green stands in line

The fingers are still

Reminding; to fill 

Brighter shades.

Juggling between

The different colors

The page comes alive.

She stares at the window blindly.

Sometimes the mind plays many tricks.

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The Woes of the Ruled

NaPoWriMo-2024

Day-15

Prompt: Write a poem inspired by the wide world of postage stamps.

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Ola!

I bring the message

From across the mountains and seas

The wind touches the oceans

And sends its fragrance to you.

My friends there

Breathing your country's air

Remembering their motherland

Working, sweating, and living in fear.

You have ruled, converted

Forced, for five centuries

We carry your footprints

In our culture, food, and habits.

Obrigado Patron

You have changed

The history of time

Identity crises! the new crime.

(Goa was a colony of the Portuguese for five centuries. People are still struggling to adjust to the new ways of life. Many are leaving the place to become part of the EU. There is a sea change in the behavior and attitude of the present generation due to cultural differences)

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If

NaPoWriMo-2024

Day-14

Prompt: To write a ten-line poem where each line begins with the same word. This technique is called "anaphora"

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If I could see you once more, just to touch you, feel you, and hold your hands;

If you could come back and let me know what made you do what you did;

If there was a way, I could dig up all the debris and find the truth;

If  only you had let me in and shared all that pain rather than surrender;

If I were a little bigger and stronger and had the sense to know the danger;

If there were a magic wand that helped to heal the heart and ease the ache; 

If  you  had dared to face the brunt and not buckle down under the pressure;

If you had not taken the last resort and broken down your fences;

If  I  could turn the clock and bring you back to mend the bridges;

If and many "ifs" are only left to let you know how much is left unsaid...

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