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Go With The Flow

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5th Nov 2023. 1 min read

(published in The Power of Poetry)

All folks need different strokes

God made us this way

So that we could develop the knack of adapting to others

While strengthening our tolerance to our differences

Go with the flow

Know what is right and what is wrong

Know what pleases a person and what does not

Know what the strengths of the other person are so that you can benefit

You should confer your wisdom too if desired by the other party

Then it is a win win situation

There will be peace, harmony and happiness in the relationship that will lasts.

Go with the flow.

6 Steps To Change My Life For Good

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Nov 5th 2023, 2 min read

A person without a direction is like a ship without a rudder; One simply revolves on the spot while finding his way.

There are 6 key steps to effect a remarkable change.

1 Never stop learning.. The job that you think is an iron rice bowl can still be broken. Your ability cannot.

Continue to expand on your ability, knowledge and outlook. This will upskill yourself to meet up with the demands of the everchanging world.

Continue to imbibe knowledge whether financial, societal, philosophical, etc as. it brings one to a higher intellectual level of thought to understand the underlying logic of life .

2 Be simple – This is a panacea for the perplexed heart. Sometimes letting go is an absolute skill to have when there is a deluge of goods or information even social events .

Less on materialism, less on fame and fortune, less on desires. All are not easy to do.

But Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication and the way to clarity of thought.

3 Develop a skill

Best way to be respected and accepted is to be good in at least one thing.

As you pursue your passionate field or interest, you become unique and almost often irreplaceable, job wise.

And closer to the pink of perfection which grants immense satisfaction.

4 Build tolerance – Those who live well do so not because they are not beset with problems, it’s that they are encompassing, peaceful, contented and grateful.

Choosing a good state of mind is a choice.

Things become less troubling and one becomes less complaining.

At your lowest point, you are able to accept and adapt. At your peak, you preserve your principles.

5 Do what you dislike – often it’s something challenging but useful. The advice given is; Bite the bullet and do it!

Many good things are done out of helplessness and the result is unimaginable success.

Do what you dislike or scares you first. You may discover new potential.

6 Enable yourself to more choices to cope with life’s vicissitudes.

Explore alternative approach to a potential problem.

Like cut your nails with your left hand as well so that you can use your left one when the right hand is hurt.

In other words, use both hands and be prepared. If one method fails, you still have another.

Conclusion;

Change will always be there and become more seemingly insurmountable. But people can cope if they would adopt some of these strategies mentioned and move in tandem with change.

Man’s Search For Meaning

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30th Oct 2023. 1 min read

We are soldiers in our own way

Marching on every single day

Looking for things to fulfil our lives

Whether we make merry or otherwise

Along the way, you find your thrills

You fall in love and develop your skills

Then you find some meaning to live

Excited that you have some gifts

Hopefully they bring love and laughter to everyone

Then sit back for now as one’s good work is done.

A Haiku Poem

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30th Oct 2023. 1 min read

A crane stands robust

Amidst the gleaming river

Alone and yet tough

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Features of a Haiku poem;

1 There are no more than 17 syllables.

2 Haiku is composed of only 3 lines.

3 Typically, first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third has 5 syllables.

4 It is a short, unrhymed poem

5 A Moment in time, an enlightenment

A Senryu Poem

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21st Oct 2023. 1 min read

What is good for you

Is not what you like to do

Do it anyway

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Notes;

  • A Senryu poem is a three-line unrhymed Japanese poetic form similar to haiku usually in a satiric or ironic vein. Senryu is concerned with human nature and its foibles
  • Like Haiku, it consists of 17 syllables, divided over three lines in a 5 – 7 – 5 pattern.
  • But Haiku evokes images in the natural world, a moment in time, an enlightenment

Ode To Poetry

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( published in The Power of Poetry)

13th Oct 2023. 1 min read

While everything around me renew

They continue to tempt me at every venue

The clothes, the food, the colours

Make my mind boggle

To Spend and  add another object

And expand my already burgeoning closet 

Let me say my peace

It may make many displeased 

A thing that seems so novel

Would become transient and temporal

But Poetry which is the real deal

Especially when written with heart, soul and feel

Poetry brings out the element, 

excellence and the essence of life 

Those who love poetry will visualise, survive and thrive