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PERSONAL & PHILOSOPHICAL MUSINGS
Thoughts personal and philosophical.
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This folder contains items, mostly poems, which relate to my personal life or views.
Portfolio -> PERSONAL & PHILOSOPHICAL MUSINGS

ONE DAY I WILL BE NO MORE  [E]   1.0 KB
A poet muses about when he is no more.

ON LEAVING SIXTY NINE BEHIND: a sonnet  [E]   0.8 KB
On completing 69 years.

DEEP INSIDE ME  [E]   1.0 KB
Deep inside me there is an urge—to write.

WORK: award winner  [E]   1.1 KB
Too much work and no play.

A POET’S LIFE: editor's choice  [E]   1.2 KB
A poet’s mind is marked by constant background activity.

A MONTH IN A HILLY SIKKIM VILLAGE   [E]   84.3 KB
A summer work-holiday, with glimpses of life in a hilly village in Sikkim, India.

INSPIRATION: a sonnet  [E]   0.9 KB
A poet never lacks inspiration. The feelings are the inspiration.

FRUITS OF ADVERSITY: a sonnet  [E]   0.9 KB
A life of want is better than one without it.

BALLOONS AND MOMENTS: a sonnet  [E]   1.0 KB
They are both fleeting. Let them fly. Don’t hold on to them.

MUZZLING MEAN RATS  [E]   0.8 KB
Why not leave a mean squeaking rat as such? Trying to muzzle it may not mean much.

WHAT IS WRITTEN ON THE WALL  [E]   0.7 KB
It is open to us to be serious or flippant.

 ON COMPLETING SIXTY EIGHT YEARS  [E]   0.6 KB
[To Him, on this annual event.

LIFE CYCLE: a sestina  [ASR]   3.2 KB
The cycle of life continues, just as it snows, melts, rises and snows again.

BETWEEN TWO STOOLS   [ASR]   13.6 KB
An autobiographical account of managing between two careers--Medicine and Law.

BLUNT ARROWS: a sonnet   [E]   0.8 KB
Arrows that boomerang hurt only the archer.

DESIRE AND HOPE: a sonnet  [E]   0.9 KB
Why harbor desires for which there is no hope?

I WON’T BE DICTATED TO   [E]   0.7 KB
Humility does not mean allowing oneself to be dictated to by fools and bullies.

KNOW, BUT DON’T TELL SO: a sonnet  [E]   0.8 KB
Know more than others if you can, but don’t tell them so.

CALLING NAMES: a sonnet  [E]   0.8 KB
Those who simply call names or abuse others, debase themselves.

THE PSI: a sonnet   [E]   2.1 KB
The pseudo-secular intelligentsia are neither very intelligent, nor very secular.

MEN V. HORSES: a sonnet  [E]   0.8 KB
Ways in which men are similar to horses.

FREE THINKERS: a sonnet  [E]   0.9 KB
There are some who are prisoners of their own biased, ’free’ beliefs.

INTELLIGENT FOOLS: a sonnet   [E]   0.8 KB
Some fools have a high IQ.

WORDS MEAN AND CAN BE MEAN: a sonnet  [E]   0.8 KB
Choose your words carefully.

THE BODY AND THE SOUL  [E]   0.8 KB
The master is encaged while the slave struts around.

 I DO NOT WISH TO BE KNOWN: award winner  [E]   1.1 KB
A desire to remain aloof and alone, uninvolved and unknown.

WHY I WRITE?  [E]   0.9 KB
My approach to writing poetry.

A LIFELONG BOON  [E]   0.8 KB
A book is man’s best friend.

INTROSPECTION   [E]   1.1 KB
Thoughts about five years of poetry writing.

MY INTERVIEW BY tm_lvn_nurse  [E]   8.8 KB
My interview by tm_lvn_nurse in June 2005.

LIFE DREAMS  [E]   1.0 KB
Our dreams at different stages of life.

A WRITER'S APPRECIATION: Editor's choice  [E]   2.2 KB
It is more important for a writer to be read than to be praised.

THE CYCLE OF LIFE: haikus--award winner  [E]   0.6 KB
Three life phases, in three haikus.

LAYERS OF CLOUDS  [E]   1.0 KB
Clouds of memories, some tepid, some tumultuous.

TURNING FORTY OR EIGHTY: a sonnet  [E]   0.8 KB
What matters is how we live life, not how long we live it.

LIES  [E]   0.8 KB
Is lie the truth?

THE DARKNESS WHERE I ROAM  [E]   0.7 KB
Sometimes we find ourselves in a sea of darkness.

A NECK STUCK OUT  [E]   0.8 KB
Sticking out one’s neck for the underdog.

LOVE, HATRED AND UNDERSTANDING  [E]   0.9 KB
Love others and shed hatred, if wish to understand others.

AN EMPTY MASK  [E]   0.8 KB
The real worth of life.

WE CHANGE WITH TIME  [E]   1.1 KB
As life changes, we all do, and should, change.

BEAUTY  [E]   1.5 KB
What makes a woman truly beautiful?

HOW DID I BECOME A WRITER?  [E]   16.6 KB
A writer's autobiography.

IN PRAISE OF KNOWLEDGE: abcedarius poem  [E]   1.6 KB
Knowledge is power. Gain it, but don't be proud of it.

KEEP QUIET OR SPEAK OUT?  [E]   0.7 KB
Words can be useless or precious. Discretion lies with us.

A ROSE IN THE WILDERNESS  [E]   1.0 KB
The wail of a lonely rose.

TAKE ME TO TOMORROW: award winner  [E]   0.7 KB
Foget the past. Live each day as it comes. Be hopeful.

AN EMPTY SCREEN: award winner  [E]   0.8 KB
The secrets behind a beautiful face.

AN ODE TO A DICTIONARY  [E]   0.8 KB
A poet and a dictionary are inseparable.

MY INTERVIEW: conducted by Mavis Moog  [E]   71.0 KB
Mavis Moog, WDC moderator, in England, interviewed me via e mail in May 2005.

WHETHER – ruba’i  [13+]   1.3 KB
Whether this or that? The conflicts in the mind.

REFLECTION  [E]   0.8 KB
What I see in the mirror.

REFLECTIONS: award winner  [E]   0.7 KB
Reflections of various types.

DEATH, I AIN’T AFRAID OF YOU  [E]   0.7 KB
How shall I like to die.

HOROSCOPE  [E]   0.9 KB
The futility of being dependent on stars and horoscopes.

MY LIFE EVENTS: award winner  [E]   0.9 KB
The ups and downs in my life

POETICAL MOMENTS  [E]   0.7 KB
What is poetry? What is life without poetry?

A BEE IN HIS BONNET: a sonnet  [E]   0.8 KB
About oneself, looking back.

IN PRAISE OF TRADITIONAL POETRY  [E]   0.9 KB
The rhyme and rhythm and flow of traditional poetry impart it an indelible aura.

BODY AND SOUL--editor's choice  [E]   1.7 KB
I am the Soul. My body is my gift. Salvation lies through good deeds done through my body

MY HATS  [E]   1.8 KB
The various hats I have worn—a chronicle of my pursuits.

GATES OF REASON  [E]   0.7 KB
Superficiality cannot take us far.

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES: sonnet--Award Winner  [ASR]   0.9 KB
A bizarre memory of my early school days

INTERNET ADDICTION  [E]   0.9 KB
Is it an addiction after all?

MY PORT  [E]   1.9 KB
Blowing my own trumpet, reluctantly, about my portfolio. This was the contest prompt!

MY POEMS--award winner  [E]   1.2 KB
How I write my poems, or, how do they get written.

IT HAPPENED!  [E]   1.6 KB
An unexpected result of writing poems on writing.com. A welcome happening!

THE SECRET OF MY POEMS--Editor's choice  [E]   1.0 KB
How and why I write poetry

ROSE AND THORN  [E]   0.9 KB
What the rose owes to the thorn.

AN ODE TO A POET  [ASR]   0.8 KB
Homage to a poet

AN ODE TO LETTER ‘O’  [E]   0.9 KB
An unusual thought--If I were to be a letter, which one would I choose to be