Goodbye 2023! Hello 2024!
Over the years, whenever I have experienced any
adversity, I have actively sought and have graciously learned the resultant
lessons, implemented them in my life, and turned around adversity into benefit.
This approach has held me in good stead.
Jamie Anderson: "Grief is love, with no place to go."
Love taken away, with no hope for return,
Into grief gets translated,
For, "Grief is love, with no place to go"
Where the heart has disintegrated.
Almost all of my drawings are unplanned and non-representational. I just draw and am then pleasantly surprised at the end result. It seems that I use an art form (without knowing it) called Zentangle Art. Thank you Mona Biblow for this information.
I am fascinated by the beauty of black and white graphics 🩶🖤
It has been brought to my notice that the following link is broken:
2. https://www.calcuttafoundation.com/blog/compassion-an-inherent-trait-in-a-woman
Below is the poem posted on that link.
In September 2022 I completed 10 Years as a childless widow.
To commemorate that landmark, I dedicated the past 12 months to innumerable pen sketches in stark Black and White with the tag line:
"With the abject darkness given,
Beauty I sought to create,
Made slits in that canvas of black,
To allow light to infiltrate."
In September 2023, I embarked on a new series of pen sketches, in the colours that I love.
Is It In My Destiny?
"What was hidden in my heart,
Now on my lips a-quiver,
Awaiting a window of opportunity,
A Contract Of The Soul?
"Is there a thing called 'soul-mates'?
Is there 'past life affiliation'?
Do 'twin flames' exist,
Looking for reconciliation?"
Acknowledging Lata for her proof reading skills, without which this poem would be a grammatical mess 😁
Thank you Lata 💖
What The Heart Wants, The Heart Does Not Always Get
Frodo🐈💔, BinDee🐈💔, Finch🐈💔,
After spending on it,
Just weeks, far too few,
Itty, bitty kittens three,
To Earth have bid Adieu,
🐈🐈🐈😢😔💔💔💔
Starring Lil' Binks (aka ZacharyFur) as the Tuxedo Panther ❤️
Songwriters: Salil Chowdhury / Yogesh
छोटी सी बात ❤
न जाने क्यूँ,
होता है ये ज़िंदगी के साथ
अचानक ये मन
किसी के जाने के बाद
करे फिर उसकी याद
छोटी छोटी सी बात
न जाने क्यूँ
वो अंजान पल ढल गये कल
आज वो रंग बदल बदल
मन को मचल मचल रहें, न चल
न जाने क्यूँ
वो अंजान पल
सजे बिना मेरे नैनों मे
टूटे रे हाय रे सपनों के महल
न जाने क्यूँ
होता है ये ज़िंदगी के साथ
अचानक ये मन
किसी के जाने के बाद
करे फिर उसकी याद
छोटी छोटी सी बात
न जाने क्यूँ
वही है डगर
वही है सफ़र है नहीं
साथ मेरे मगर अब मेरा हमसफ़र
इधर उधर ढूँढे नज़र वही है डगर
कहाँ गईं शामें मदभरी
वो मेरे, मेरे वो दिन गये किधर
न जाने क्यूँ
होता है ये ज़िंदगी के साथ
अचानक ये मन
किसी के जाने के बाद
करे फिर उसकी याद
छोटी छोटी सी बात
न जाने क्यूँ
I end 2022 as a Published Poet & Pen Sketch Artist.
Soul Canvas ... Inspired, a 9 X 7 inch Coffee Table Book containing 25 poems from my anthology of 630 poems and 29 pen sketches from my portfolio of pen and pencil sketches.
Thank you all for your continued encouragement 🙏🏾
From mere pen strokes into a picture telling a story ... blossoming in adversity.
With PowerPoint Artistic Effects ... Reality, warts included
30.06.2022
12 months seem to have gone by in a flash and here I am once again to celebrate a fresh milestone - 620 poems in 13 years.
Cuz Joao Marcedo you put me on the world map in 2015 and shored up my conviction in my mission and myself. Every milestone since I dedicate to you.
My survival as a poet with an audience would not have been possible without you, who visit my blog and your continued belief in me and my gift of verse.
A heartfelt Thank You! 🙏🏽 to each of you for your continued encouragement and moral support.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
