Discover Prompts
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My Earth-Day song
Shhhlisten to me pace… You my celebrated Earth, my Jewel of Heav’n: your hills are my Psalms, your rain ~ my answered Prayer, rinsed by day by night, by silver crested twilight; they are hoarse with saying : “…there is more, there is more than rational 365, 24×7 glory & gore; shhhlisten to what summer… Continue reading
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40 wink Covid cure
In my dream just now, giant lemon rinds chased us down with mint sprig, down ginger spiced soda, home-made like they used to make them, & in the dream This could cure disease, even Covid- could it, could it be, the cure of deadly disease that feeds our machine, could it be, that the cure… Continue reading
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Where eagles fear, and angels dare…
Like tens of thousands of Doctors -my sis Li, (and Nurses, Care givers), what can one say but thankyou. Thankyou for going out to work every day, for the strength with which you live your life. We talk of survival and essentials; she works, while I sit worrying about tomorrows food supply. I hope you’re… Continue reading
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ReNEW
These days the Light does not fall thru’ open doors, but finds new ways in chinks and window pane, curtain sleeve and on plates and chair and floor, on leaves of page and street places I’ve been before, miles of acres of Light walking all over, unstopped, untouched by yesterday’s dying beams. *** P.S. Any… Continue reading
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“Far from where?” he asked..
“Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.“Ian Frazier, Staffer @ The New Yorker. WordPress #Discover Prompt- Distance. I had 2 planes to reach Amsterdam, it felt far, very far from home. I was still young enough to be that scared. This is a… Continue reading
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When Healing comes it..
…It may arrive slow, like winds trickling sands, ‘neath quiet sky, in you and I… it mayn’t but be gentle: when Healing comes though, we will know what we used to not know, you & I…. Continue reading
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Rise Beloved
Social Distancing is perhaps The News now, but to an invisible majority it has existed in perhaps the most hideous ways. We do not easily talk of Social ostracizing but our ‘Outcasts’ have been there since the beginning of Time. ‘ They’ may even be you, or me in unique definitions via complexes, illnesses, alone-ness… Continue reading
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Terrific Teachers
“It’s like Noah and the flood!” My Sis Thel over the phone, her laughter always like happy bells on a low key day, but last week she was more listening to the world outside here in Bangalore. “Some people across our gate … we used to smile in passing, but not anymore…?” Thel is a… Continue reading
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Divine in the depths
I couldn’t find You anywhere except here where Beauty bites my journey thru night with Your redeeming Light. Continue reading
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A day that rewrote History:
Ay, take the pieces of your life, string them together like a song; orchestrate- separate rights from wrong; forgive, bless…even if you do not feel like a blessing. A day that begins to change me: there’s more than I can fully say in this Post. As quarantines connect different cities of our world, our family… Continue reading
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Novel Contagion Love@ the Cross.
Two things here- stark contrasting Pair : a death instrument, and True Love’s pandemic Stare. It’s a still, cool night here. Mild rain showers soften the air with the distinct scent of mingling trees outside. 2000 years ago now, Good Friday would dawn with historic consequences: there’d be a Cross with a Man on it,… Continue reading
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Not the best of times to have the worst of times…
I had a few days to paint this one: is a 5 footer (width), and meant for a Centre that is a Soul Cafe, probably one of its kind in India. It’s still there at Chai*, a reminder of how Time and other factors are sometimes little things in the face of bigger things. This… Continue reading
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Wait. Check your ‘lows.
Below the Surface of Everything, is Most Things. Have to share a fellow Bloggers Post that said a few things to me: Aimless deliberation “Journalists often ask me when I go to the field, ‘What do you expect to find?’ And my answer always is, ‘The unexpected,’ because we’re just looking at the tip of… Continue reading
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In the Stillness
‘The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” Jacob Bronowski …who can tell what you find, restless restful pieces of soul, of mind. In the Stillness… Continue reading
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Street Talk
The girl with mud thick eyes? I met her across from where we were 3 floors above, she walked that place like a tigress, she stalked my face every noon as I waited for the school bus. Our daughter was 5, I wanted to shield her from the girls’ eyes, eyes like a well with… Continue reading
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Earth Song
I did not think I was a Song, not in little school, but age 13, a storm hit our bay and the sand went white in the sun that finally came out, that day in the silence, with light falling like rain in my arms and bare feet running out to meet a day without… Continue reading
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What the dark whispers
It tells of the Light, like none other dare. Hell is the greatest evidence of Heaven, Death the truth of Life: Continue reading
