Part of your wisdom portfolio It felt best at thirteen syllables or fourteen with caesuras (pauses), so you have this poem in the Alexandrine meter. It’s my longest yet. But nothing like venturing into new waters. I hope it flows well till the end. Aloud, aloud, recite aloud, dear friend. I am my memories Red flowered […]
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Part of your wisdom portfolio I invite Adele to sing this song for us, as Amy Winehouse is no more. While we wait for her, you must sing it aloud, in either’s deep, languid voice. Dangerous Thinking Dangerous, dangerous, it’s dangerous,Thought my mind was a forever friend,But of late, it’s turned most treacherous,Gone too far
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Part of your wisdom portfolio Read it aloud, my friend. Savour it slowly, come sit with me. Sunbeams in an Old Cloth Mill Left my car in a weedy cobbled lane,By a crumbling derelict cotton mill,It loomed cavernous coolly inviting,In a forgotten yesteryear Bombay. Waiting alone inside for someone late,I sink back on a cot by
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Part of your wisdom portfolio A poem in variable meter and semi-free verse. Written in the spirit of not being bound by strict convention. To be read aloud, as always. Standing in the Open Door of a Train, Watching the Countryside Roll By India, ages ago.First Class bogie,Teen me. Leaning against the open steel door,Long
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Part of your wisdom portfolio In the style of a Shakespearean sonnet. Recite it aloud! Simply Extraordinary I see how I often complicate things,In the quagmire of thoughts, I lose the plot;Too many options and layers and rings,I second-guess myself into a knot. Behold the Taj’s effortless beauty,A pyramid’s unadorned impress;The lucid strength of Relativity,The
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Part of your wisdom portfolio As always, best read aloud slowly. Love, Intelligence, or Kindness? I surveyed my life and found it sound,Love, intelligence, and kindness abound.But I asked myself, and I ask thee,Which is most precious of the three? Love is such beautiful ecstasy,Ancient reproductive utility,Hard to control, often inadequate,Seen in many animals, small
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Part of your wisdom portfolio A pentametric poem in six stanzas. Recite aloud. Be Still, My Turbulent Mind I awake, and my mind’s wheel starts churning,It spins out dreams even while I’m sleeping,Why does my brain think so unceasingly?What’d happen if it went still fleetingly? Would I wilt, crumple, or cease to exist?Is it not
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Part of your wisdom portfolio Read it aloud slowly to enjoy it best. I Want No Artifice I want to create value every day,Not just meet, text, and talk my time away.I want to relish my work and excel,Not spin around the career carousel. I want friends I like or help to succeed,Not network selfishly
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Part of your wisdom portfolio A poem in pentameter. Read it aloud! The Things We Do to Be Remembered The urge to not just disappear in time,Makes men and women do much that’s sublime.Yet we know every outcome isn’t fine,And just as many things end in a crime. We struggle to the poles and wheeze
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