Vijaya Sundaram

Poet, Musician, Teacher, and Amateur Visual Artist

All You Need

In response to The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge:  One Love

(Note: All photographs©Vijaya Sundaram (with the exception of the one of me with sitar, which is © Warren Senders, and the one of both of us, taken by a friend).

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All You Need*
©March 12th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

I’ve always loved the word, “Love.”

It has a magical, radiant feeling, a feeling of bottomless abundance.  It fills me up when I’m hungry, and I chase after it in dreams.

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I used to whisper it to myself when I was a pre-teen, and a teenager, and a young woman,

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… and now, as a not-as-young woman.

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I say it to my husband and eleven-year old daughter every day. 

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 [The above picture of her is from this past Christmas.  The picture below of my husband and me is from many years ago.]

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I say it to our Standard Poodle, who is full of love.

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I love love-songs, although I wrote, composed and sang only a couple of my own love-songs.  Here is one which I’d uploaded to YouTube a few years ago:

I Can’t Bring Myself to Call it Love – Original song by Vijaya Sundaram

Thank you for reading and listening!

Love,

Dreamer of Dreams

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*All You Need is Love — The Beatles