The prompt for Day 2 is to write a poem based on a word featured in a tweet from Haggard Hawks, an account devoted to obscure and interesting English words. Will you choose a word like “aprosexia,” which means “an inability to concentrate”? Or maybe something like “greenout,” which is “the relief a person who has worked or lived in a snowy area for a long time feels on seeing something fresh and green for the first time”?

I chose the following five words that I found interesting 🙂

Multiscious: all knowing/ well informed in many subjects

Mussitate: to speak softly/ to mutter

Glisk: brief glimpse of warm sunshine

Multivagant: wandering in all directions

Monitive: A warning, often in the form of a reminder

Here goes the poem:

A Rendezvous with Self

Who am I- my mind; my body; my heart; or my soul?

Who should I listen to out of these four?

Where am I headed and what do I want from myself, from my life?

Why do I keep leaping like a multivagant, from one purpose to another in my strife?

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Why do I seek to control everything?

Why I want my world to be perfect?

Why there’s so much to achieve everyday?

Why can’t work be enough, just for the day?

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Why can’t I let go of my failures and my past?

Why uncertainty of future overwhelms?

Why do I have a need to be multiscious?

Why can’t I just calmly wait and watch?

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Why don’t I for once, just sit back and relax?

Why not enjoy the glisk, the rain, the dusk?

Why let worries and fears obscure my dreams?

Isn’t the purpose of life, to create memories?

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A monitive it is, this introspection that I did,

I mussitate to self-

Some insights from the heart,

Some guidance from the soul,

A reminder to live with zeal, from all four, that make me whole!

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©Vandana Bhasin

02.04.2022