May 14, 2016 Free Verse, Original Poetry, The Daily Post Photo Challenge

In response to The Daily Post’s Photo Challenge:  Face

Vis-à-Vis
©May 14th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

Let me see you now
In the light of the glimmering water
Where fish swim swiftly, surely,
Like sparrows in a backyard, but we
Shall out-swim them, shall we not?

Let me see your eyes –
Inscrutable and bottomless
Full of sliced light, shimmering,
As you gaze at me, back-lit by blue –
I could drown in them.

Let me see you now
Face to face, clearly, not darkly
What do you see, my friend,
When you see me?

Do you wonder what I think of you?
Or, could it be that you dream
Merely of swimming free
Far from here, from all these eyes?

We shall face them all together
Standing face-to-face
Faced by the enormity of our fate
To be forever watched, seen, admired.

– Quick, let’s turn our backs on them all!

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Mar 12, 2016 Daily Life, Ramblings and Musings, The Daily Post Photo Challenge

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).

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.

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

… and now, as a not-as-young woman.

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

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

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

 

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

 

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