A light in the darkness

I was stuck in the middle of another poem and could not think much, so I shifted to this poem. This poem is inspired by Robert Frost's poem " Fire and Ice ." I have borrowed a few words from lines 3 and 5 of the original poem.  Fear of fire, flare like a wildfire where the world will end in flames without having been tasted my desire  I could feel the pain of perishing twice; putting me on wheels to seek  something that cools and preserves like the ice world curled in ivory while their stick-to-itiveness is as sharp as knife piercing every depth for freezing point  has no limit.  ©water2025 31.10.2025. This post is a part of  Blogchatter Half Marathon 2025

 This post is inspired by Rumi's poem " Let go of your worries ." I have borrowed a few of the words from the poem. O you leech of worries clear off the space you perched on and sucked the executive functions it is ordained on. It's high time now O you son of man, pour on your salt of faith draining off the moistures  leach of worries were clothed behold yourself,  O son of man and  know when the leech of worries sticks, transforming the molecular structure of cognition backsliding on a path you never wished to walk Lick of leech or the like of your insight switch the discerning key lies in your soul. Are you able to hear its call? Not a shout not so clamorous but a soft whisper like that of a casper If ghosts could have a voice its noise would be of choice, because it's going to bring something the world couldn't sing because between worry and peace is this single difference: worry is natural, while peace is supernatural. ©water2025 6.11.2025 This post is a p...

  I feel this poem deserves a presence in my blood. This poem is inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's poem " Where the mind is without fear. " I have borrowed  A mind without fear flaps its wings in gear until it fills the air where knowledge is free fare. A mind without fear is the world  that hasn't been broken up  into fragile fragments by the narrow domestic walls It is the world of words bubbling from the ocean of truth Where tireless striving sculpts the humanoid of perfection whose reflection is the clear stream of reason  which hasn't lost its vision in the dreary desert sand of dead habit rather, it's the place where the mind is led forward by thee into an ever-widening thought  incubating into materializing action O how I long to see  my students reach this niche where heaven of freedom is no miss but a grounded bliss O how I desire to witness my family and friends carve this ambry where fear flees forever as certitude holds clever. ©water2025 7...

A sonnet also needs to be part of my half marathon, as I am fond of Wordsworth’s sonnets. I chose Sonnet 73 . I have borrowed a few lines from the original poem. Behold me close in hours when darkness rules and yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which air-kiss numbing gale, where melodious music that sweet birds sang. In me, as thou see'st anile, through flashback As youngness of her fadeth in the west, and blanket of light slowly crawled back in coat of death's second self, swaddle in rest. In me, what thou see'st the glow of such fire as it lay on the ashes of her youth, and the death-bed whereon it must expire, consumed her as she retires from her growth. The turns of life earn her the life-time pride while senescence moonwalks her heyday's ride. ©water2025 26/11/2025-9/11/2025 This post is a part of  Blogchatter Half Marathon 2025

This poem is inspired by " She Walks in Beauty " by Lord Byron. I was much impressed by the poem and wanted to include this in this series. I wrote the whole poem, but the system did not save, and I lost it. I liked those words, but I could not recall all of them. Some I was able to recall, which I have incorporated; the rest I have recreated. Some of the lines are from the original poem.  One stroke of brush makes her skin bright like the shining stars of the clear night just with the right mix of black and white; she amazes the worlds with her beguiling sight and her mellow magnetizing light added sparkles to the heaven's gaudy night. A streak here and a stroke there softly lightens the skin of hers; while the waves in her every raven tress, evince every element of her gentle caress born in her abstraction so serene sculpting her inner soul so clean. How pure, how dear their dwelling-place where the overt dreamboat's lace  has magnanimous, beguiling grace and the in...

This poem is inspired by the poem " A Fallen Leaf " by Ella Wheeler Wilcox . I have not heard the name of this poet before.  A trusting little leaf of green, hardly thought to be seen as an essential gene only to discover its  life-sustaining power when a flaunting patch of vivid red, engulfed its circulating bed interrupting the food it fed for now it dread of the dissolving hookup as life flew up—high up.  ©water 26.10.2025. This post is a part of  Blogchatter Half Marathon 2025