Poem: Amazed at the “WHY” Maze

This is my second take on the prompt given by dVerse. The prompt was so intriguing that I couldn’t resist sharing all the questions that keep bothering me from time to time. Bjorn hosted the dVerse on Tuesday.  He was inspired by the “ he book of Questions” by Pablo Neruda, to give us a prompt to write poems … Read more

Poem: A Reflective Trail

Bjorn is hosting the dVerse today.  He was inspired by the “ he book of Questions” by Pablo Neruda, to give us a prompt to write poems consisting only of questions. We should leave the answer to the reader. We can write a poem consisting of a single question or many. We can fill our questions … Read more

Self-discovery: Week 4

Traversing the road of self-discovery, we have reached the end of the month. We are aware that this journey is alleviating, ever evolving and obligatory for our mental and emotional well-being, growth and development. Hence it mandates the process to be never ending irrespective that we are drawing close to the end of our monthly … Read more

Relationships

Relationships are quite fragile in nature. Even a trivial unpleasant word or action can disrupt our entire belief system. It takes years of love, care, bonding and sacrifices to form and sustain relationships but only a single deed of misconduct, for cracks to set in. Harsh words create a hole in the ship of relations … Read more

Comprehending Anger

Lately I have found myself getting annoyed and irked at slightest provocation. Every little thing seems to test my patience. Whether it’s kids messing up their room or my inability to sneak a few hours for blogging, my irritability is resulting in an outburst on one or the other family member. I know, I know, it’s not a good practice. But I am sure this happens with many of us from time to time.

Buddha said, “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”

I completely agree with the advice of the wise saint.

Anger causes much damage to our individuality than we anticipate or realize. So, I thought it would be a good idea to understand this unsolicited and frequent guest of ours, Mr. Anger, a little better 🙂

I plan to split this post in two parts as it is likely to be a little lengthy.

Let’s try to tackle Mr. Anger now.

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Tanka: Silence

Tanka is a poetry form which originated in Japan more than 13 centuries ago. Tanka, translated, means “short song.” It is similar to haiku in that there are specific numbers of syllables for each line of the poem and they often discuss the same topics of emotions, seasons, nature, love and sadness. This Japanese form has five lines with … Read more