Impelled :: Healing Through Dialogue
From poem #251 - I try to move the reader even more and set out to heal through dialogue and words
Collection: Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
gearing-up
Bidisha, 21 Jul 2021
Nature, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
351 Rain →
About a long awaited rain - a plea and prayer for it to fall - but with romantic overtones
MSA, 21 Jul 2021
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
352 Courage →
A from the heart confession about my less than perfect self / appreciation for the family that loves and supports me.
Uma, 25 Jul 2021
Family, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
Srividya, 25 Jul 2021
Healing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
354 Dawn3 →
As a friend comes to a crossroads, my trying to give her courage and resolve. Happy to say shes already well on the mend.
Bidisha, 25 Jul 2021
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
355 Life2 →
To sum life up, I simply say "To know her pain is also to know her high - ya? So try to dig deep for her buried treasure"
Women, 31 Jul 2021
Romance, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
356 Waves Felt →
A tribute to the nearly 30 girls and women in my life, weaving them into a single tapestry, seemingly addressing a single / a few people.
Self, 1 Aug 2021
Music, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
357 Ground Zero →
As I hit "ground zero" at ByTwo Studios, this medley sees me trying to set words to the tune of 5 different Pink Floyd Songs
Bidisha, 9 Aug 2021
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
358 Four →
I want to break free but it seems I lack the nerve, lead the way, help me on green pastures to serve.
Bidisha, 13 Aug 2021
Daivic, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
359 Tether2 →
After all what fun is life unless we have each otheras tether.. So make a stand to uplift each other.
Bharath M, 15 Aug 2021
Devotional, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
360 Full Circle →
Rise we then from ashes, but fall we shall to dust - have we come full circle?
Omar, 19 Aug 2021
Healing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
361 Nani →
I want to break fre but it seems i lack the nerve, lead the way, help me on green pastures to serve.
Nishanth, 19 Aug 2021
Soulful Dancing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
362 Change →
Random thoughts from the parents and brother of a friend on his wedding evening as I drew them into intimate conversation
Poonam, 30 Aug 2021
Teamwork, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
363 Verna →
About the old indic thought of gradations in colour of the modes of nature in people. Written for a friend who is researching it
John R, 12 Sep 2021
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
Prabu S, 13 Sep 2021
Soulful Dancing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
365 Sangeeth →
Written for my friend's best friend and life partner, with much feeling and good wishes
Vishnu Vasu, 14 Sep 2021
Healing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
366 Forgiving →
Written about the story a friend and filmmaker had just made about compassion and forgiveness in the atrocities of war
Women, 30 Sep 2021
Romance, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
Satyavrata, 3 Oct 2021
Daivic, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
368 Import →
Flow of thoughts at a Yagnashala or place where a ritual offering was being made to the divine, and a friend was addressing the students there
Saathi, 7 Oct 2021
Healing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
369 Neat →
Written for a young girl who wants to turn healer and trying to offer her some perspective
Jyothi, 9 Oct 2021
Reflections, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
370 Echoes →
Thoughts at a sacred place where children are being taught vedic hymns and in conversation with one of their teachers
Anusha, 31 Oct 2021
Grief, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
371 Mindful →
As my friend marks her mothers first death anniversary, written in the first person with immense feeling
Yogesh, 31 Oct 2021
Grief, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
372 Gentle Eyes →
For another friend who misses his father and thinks of his own mortality, realizing the "the best part of life Is over"
Vidya Shankar, 1 Nov 2021
Strength, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
373 Steel →
About the steel we find in people and how they, as a brook, goes on calm and serene, gathering the rain, even the unclean
Gary, 5 Nov 2021
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
374 Moonlight →
A random feel good poem I wrote about myself after a long chat with a dear old friend
Patricia, 9 Nov 2021
Mirth, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
375 Prettiest →
A sudden yearning for a girl I once knew and how maybe in an alternate lifetime we could have had a future
MSA, 18 Nov 2021
Daivic, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
376 Aspirations →
Feeling lost, I soon pick up my spirits as I think of my gurus and their legacy
Patricia, 20 Nov 2021
Soulful Dancing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
Unnamed, 21 Nov 2021
Strength, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
Patricia, 1 Dec 2021
Mirth, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
379 Times →
I'll let this cute line invite you to this poem - "I remember clarion clear your hands upon my cheek - clasping, as we set out to make Hermes and Aphrodite blush at our verse"
Srividya, 2 Dec 2021
Reflections, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
380 Dust →
The poet and the friend keep chatting as she complains about her "mate" and he offers different perspectives, for hes seen this couple up close and knows what they mean to each other
Srividya, 10 Dec 2021
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
381 Hold →
I very short sentences, this poem is best summed up in this line "We are not here overlong, so sing out loud and strong"
Nirupama, 8 Dec 2021
Soulful Dancing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
Vidya Shankar, 11 Dec 2021
Teamwork, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
383 Ingenuity →
Written for a friend and engineer, as she steers her dynamic alumnni team to the background as they make way for a new one
Bidisha, 14 Dec 2021
Gratitude, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
384 Truly →
Reflecting on a friend and how her poise could be the very stuff of the universe
Ujval, 21 Dec 2021
Soulful Dancing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
385 Stop →
For a friend on his engagement, a request of the world to "stop" and take cognizance of these two youngsters falling in love.
Srividya, 28 Dec 2021
Reflections, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
386 Elements →
Offering some sagacious advice to a friens, "know boundless and uttermost delight - Strive on until the kingdom is won by your toil and your might"
Sriram, 4 Jan 2021
Strength, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
387 Days →
A note to a friend to enjoy life and life true to his inner calling as he lives a family life and raises 2 boys.
Rabindranath, 26 Jan 2022
Reflections, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
388 Flaws →
Crazy thoughts as I come to terms with what a dear friend meant to me who left this world altogether too soon.
Tracey, 12 Feb 2022
Romance, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
389 Drown →
Begun with lines by John Denver, this poem sees me going back to earlier notions of having a "Tracey" in my life - a name from the Wilbur Smith novel Diamond Hunters
MSA, 12 Feb 2022
Daivic, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
390 Ananda →
About fighting for truth and Mother Earth, this one ends with a strong call to have a day "glorious as we dreamt. When we decided to fight for good"
Bidisha, 13 Feb 2022
Mirth, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
391 Dreams2 →
A word of comfort to a dear friend to whom I say "Think of the secret of life, as new fields you sow, and water with your blood, sweat and tears"
Bharath M, 22 Feb 2022
Birthdays, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
392 Girl →
For a friend's daughter Taara, 4 years after her elder brother turned the same 1 and I was there to capture the atmosphere
Remzi, 22 Feb 2022
Daivic, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
393 Planet →
For a dear friend on the occasion of his book launch - with a plea to all to come, help build and then live in a "Common Planet"
Bidisha, 6 Mar 2022
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
394 Human →
For a friend to dream and dare and in thanking for making me feel loved again, as we set out to "remind the world what it always knew - that acts of caring never go amiss"
Bharath M, 13 Mar 2022
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
395 Hero →
About the important role some of us men play as Heroes in our children's lives - "We all feel a warm glow as you enter the room and greet us" - now go, have a ghand ball.
John R, 13 Mar 2021
Friends, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
396 Rejection →
For a friend's friend as we welcomed here into our warm and light hearted circle
Uma, 13 Mar 2022
Healing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
397 Bayonet →
With pain, now gone, since I spoke about it and wrote Clarinet. Am almost mended now, though it caused much pain and anguish for many years. "I sincerely pray for peace for those warriors who wrest With life as her very future lies in the balance, now rest"
Reuben, 14 Mar 2022
Grief, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
398 Manish →
For Reuben, Sandeep and Harry on the death of their friend Manish Aneja, written from the view of the poet, addressing the dear departed.
Self, 18 Mar 2022
Healing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
399 Spent2 →
For a dear friend whose very peaceful future was and is being threatened. I do not agree with her decision not to go down with guns blazing, but respect the strength she has for choosing that. "My advice to you, all friends - is to just recover fast and keep moving - we know this life as bumpy, yet chose it, so make it one of giving"
Bidisha, 19 Mar 2022
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
400 Personae →
Thinking of the giants and personae (characters) in my lifetime reading fiction, I dedicated this to a friend who helped me mend. "I wait for the never ending story to lead a way out of hell, As I promised the Empress I'd create something special".
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Bidisha, 21 Jul 2021
Nature, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
351 Rain →
About a long awaited rain - a plea and prayer for it to fall - but with romantic overtones
MSA, 21 Jul 2021
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
352 Courage →
A from the heart confession about my less than perfect self / appreciation for the family that loves and supports me.
Uma, 25 Jul 2021
Family, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
Srividya, 25 Jul 2021
Healing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
354 Dawn3 →
As a friend comes to a crossroads, my trying to give her courage and resolve. Happy to say shes already well on the mend.
Bidisha, 25 Jul 2021
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
355 Life2 →
To sum life up, I simply say "To know her pain is also to know her high - ya? So try to dig deep for her buried treasure"
Women, 31 Jul 2021
Romance, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
356 Waves Felt →
A tribute to the nearly 30 girls and women in my life, weaving them into a single tapestry, seemingly addressing a single / a few people.
Self, 1 Aug 2021
Music, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
357 Ground Zero →
As I hit "ground zero" at ByTwo Studios, this medley sees me trying to set words to the tune of 5 different Pink Floyd Songs
Bidisha, 9 Aug 2021
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
358 Four →
I want to break free but it seems I lack the nerve, lead the way, help me on green pastures to serve.
Bidisha, 13 Aug 2021
Daivic, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
359 Tether2 →
After all what fun is life unless we have each otheras tether.. So make a stand to uplift each other.
Bharath M, 15 Aug 2021
Devotional, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
360 Full Circle →
Rise we then from ashes, but fall we shall to dust - have we come full circle?
Omar, 19 Aug 2021
Healing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
361 Nani →
I want to break fre but it seems i lack the nerve, lead the way, help me on green pastures to serve.
Nishanth, 19 Aug 2021
Soulful Dancing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
362 Change →
Random thoughts from the parents and brother of a friend on his wedding evening as I drew them into intimate conversation
Poonam, 30 Aug 2021
Teamwork, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
363 Verna →
About the old indic thought of gradations in colour of the modes of nature in people. Written for a friend who is researching it
John R, 12 Sep 2021
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
Prabu S, 13 Sep 2021
Soulful Dancing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
365 Sangeeth →
Written for my friend's best friend and life partner, with much feeling and good wishes
Vishnu Vasu, 14 Sep 2021
Healing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
366 Forgiving →
Written about the story a friend and filmmaker had just made about compassion and forgiveness in the atrocities of war
Women, 30 Sep 2021
Romance, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
Satyavrata, 3 Oct 2021
Daivic, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
368 Import →
Flow of thoughts at a Yagnashala or place where a ritual offering was being made to the divine, and a friend was addressing the students there
Saathi, 7 Oct 2021
Healing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
369 Neat →
Written for a young girl who wants to turn healer and trying to offer her some perspective
Jyothi, 9 Oct 2021
Reflections, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
370 Echoes →
Thoughts at a sacred place where children are being taught vedic hymns and in conversation with one of their teachers
Anusha, 31 Oct 2021
Grief, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
371 Mindful →
As my friend marks her mothers first death anniversary, written in the first person with immense feeling
Yogesh, 31 Oct 2021
Grief, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
372 Gentle Eyes →
For another friend who misses his father and thinks of his own mortality, realizing the "the best part of life Is over"
Vidya Shankar, 1 Nov 2021
Strength, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
373 Steel →
About the steel we find in people and how they, as a brook, goes on calm and serene, gathering the rain, even the unclean
Gary, 5 Nov 2021
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
374 Moonlight →
A random feel good poem I wrote about myself after a long chat with a dear old friend
Patricia, 9 Nov 2021
Mirth, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
375 Prettiest →
A sudden yearning for a girl I once knew and how maybe in an alternate lifetime we could have had a future
MSA, 18 Nov 2021
Daivic, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
376 Aspirations →
Feeling lost, I soon pick up my spirits as I think of my gurus and their legacy
Patricia, 20 Nov 2021
Soulful Dancing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
Unnamed, 21 Nov 2021
Strength, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
Patricia, 1 Dec 2021
Mirth, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
379 Times →
I'll let this cute line invite you to this poem - "I remember clarion clear your hands upon my cheek - clasping, as we set out to make Hermes and Aphrodite blush at our verse"
Srividya, 2 Dec 2021
Reflections, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
380 Dust →
The poet and the friend keep chatting as she complains about her "mate" and he offers different perspectives, for hes seen this couple up close and knows what they mean to each other
Srividya, 10 Dec 2021
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
381 Hold →
I very short sentences, this poem is best summed up in this line "We are not here overlong, so sing out loud and strong"
Nirupama, 8 Dec 2021
Soulful Dancing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
Vidya Shankar, 11 Dec 2021
Teamwork, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
383 Ingenuity →
Written for a friend and engineer, as she steers her dynamic alumnni team to the background as they make way for a new one
Bidisha, 14 Dec 2021
Gratitude, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
384 Truly →
Reflecting on a friend and how her poise could be the very stuff of the universe
Ujval, 21 Dec 2021
Soulful Dancing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
385 Stop →
For a friend on his engagement, a request of the world to "stop" and take cognizance of these two youngsters falling in love.
Srividya, 28 Dec 2021
Reflections, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
386 Elements →
Offering some sagacious advice to a friens, "know boundless and uttermost delight - Strive on until the kingdom is won by your toil and your might"
Sriram, 4 Jan 2021
Strength, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
387 Days →
A note to a friend to enjoy life and life true to his inner calling as he lives a family life and raises 2 boys.
Rabindranath, 26 Jan 2022
Reflections, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
388 Flaws →
Crazy thoughts as I come to terms with what a dear friend meant to me who left this world altogether too soon.
Tracey, 12 Feb 2022
Romance, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
389 Drown →
Begun with lines by John Denver, this poem sees me going back to earlier notions of having a "Tracey" in my life - a name from the Wilbur Smith novel Diamond Hunters
MSA, 12 Feb 2022
Daivic, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
390 Ananda →
About fighting for truth and Mother Earth, this one ends with a strong call to have a day "glorious as we dreamt. When we decided to fight for good"
Bidisha, 13 Feb 2022
Mirth, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
391 Dreams2 →
A word of comfort to a dear friend to whom I say "Think of the secret of life, as new fields you sow, and water with your blood, sweat and tears"
Bharath M, 22 Feb 2022
Birthdays, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
392 Girl →
For a friend's daughter Taara, 4 years after her elder brother turned the same 1 and I was there to capture the atmosphere
Remzi, 22 Feb 2022
Daivic, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
393 Planet →
For a dear friend on the occasion of his book launch - with a plea to all to come, help build and then live in a "Common Planet"
Bidisha, 6 Mar 2022
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
394 Human →
For a friend to dream and dare and in thanking for making me feel loved again, as we set out to "remind the world what it always knew - that acts of caring never go amiss"
Bharath M, 13 Mar 2022
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
395 Hero →
About the important role some of us men play as Heroes in our children's lives - "We all feel a warm glow as you enter the room and greet us" - now go, have a ghand ball.
John R, 13 Mar 2021
Friends, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
396 Rejection →
For a friend's friend as we welcomed here into our warm and light hearted circle
Uma, 13 Mar 2022
Healing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
397 Bayonet →
With pain, now gone, since I spoke about it and wrote Clarinet. Am almost mended now, though it caused much pain and anguish for many years. "I sincerely pray for peace for those warriors who wrest With life as her very future lies in the balance, now rest"
Reuben, 14 Mar 2022
Grief, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
398 Manish →
For Reuben, Sandeep and Harry on the death of their friend Manish Aneja, written from the view of the poet, addressing the dear departed.
Self, 18 Mar 2022
Healing, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
399 Spent2 →
For a dear friend whose very peaceful future was and is being threatened. I do not agree with her decision not to go down with guns blazing, but respect the strength she has for choosing that. "My advice to you, all friends - is to just recover fast and keep moving - we know this life as bumpy, yet chose it, so make it one of giving"
Bidisha, 19 Mar 2022
Spirit, Gearing Up [To Love and Serve!]
400 Personae →
Thinking of the giants and personae (characters) in my lifetime reading fiction, I dedicated this to a friend who helped me mend. "I wait for the never ending story to lead a way out of hell, As I promised the Empress I'd create something special".
