Apr 25, 2016 Original Poetry, sonnet
In response to The Daily Post’s Daily Prompt: Whisper
Whispers of Another Land
©April 25th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
To wave your oar at every ship that goes
Upon the waves on which you row your boat
Is foolishness, for all it does is show
The world around you that you are afloat.
The whispers of a land from far away
Are just the wake in which your vessel flies,
But now, distracted by the waves that play
You turn around with wheeling seabirds’ cries.
When whispers of another world are drowned
By shouts of glee and mirth that pass like mist
In mid-day sun before you run aground
You push your oar into the waves, resist!
When distant voices try to reel you in —
Come, let them pull you up above the din.
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P.S. I seem to want to keep writing sonnets nowadays!
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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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