Woman

woman (2)Throw thorns her way

You won’t see her weep

Hurt her day after day

Silence she will keep

She will not display

Her abject discontent

Impassive she will stay

You will not hear her lament

Stoicism she has learnt

Over the merciless years

She has been burnt

By her helpless tears

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She waits, in vain

To be unveiled some day

To expose her hidden pain

Her deep scars to display

When you peel off her layers

See her wounds scream

Hear her silent prayers

Witness her destroyed dreams.

She will still not speak

Of all she has been through

Do not think she is weak

She’s silent for she loves you

She may never forget

How she was treated by you

But if the past you do regret

She has already forgiven you.

Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge 2015: Week 10

Interesting, eccentric, and unique

I can be subject to critique

Whatever it is, of one thing I’m sure

My characteristics you cannot ignore

I am an oddball and this challenge’s for me

So take a look at my eccentricity!

DSC04825Balloons and film rolls..

DSC04694Decorative masks for sale in the BahamasDSC04318 (2)?Candy plant- at Yankee Candle Village, MA

Tribute to a woman

Dedicated to all the strong, beautiful, vivacious and mysterious women out there!DSC03131 (2)The photograph above depicts the Pieta (The Pietà (Italian pronunciation: [pjeˈta]) is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, most often found in sculpture.- Wikipedia) at St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City

Chain me

Will happen never

Restrain me

The ropes I’ll sever

Silence me

Words will find

Defiantly

Thoughts in my mind

Challenge me

And I shall rise

Gallantly

I’ll watch your surprise

If you inflict torture

Retaliate I will

Forgive I may in future

Forget I never will

Think I am weak

Strength I’ll display

Consider me meek

Hear me roar, I would say

Don’t need validation

From you of my beauty

I have affirmation

From within, you see

I am the fire

That keeps your hearth warm

And if I require

I can unleash a storm

I can stand by your side

Applaud your success

But I will not hide

In a dark recess

For I’m valuable

To the world just like you

Confident, capable

And inscrutable too!

Lost and found

DSC04620Lost in a maze

The universe a haze

Cacophony of voices

Excess of choices

Conflicting sounds

Confusion abounds

Myriad directions

Countless selections

Rugged terrain

No path free from pain

I stop in my tread

My heart full of dread

Paralyzed by fear

Of a future unclear

The path undefined

Benumbing my mind

To whom shall I turn

For some direction?

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I looked all around

And finally I found

I needed to look within

Block the background dim

In quiet introspection

Came to me the solution

A friend, philosopher, guide

I found all of them inside

I realized how I unwittingly had

Been running away in dread

From my demons internal

Blaming it on events external

As I found illumination

My soul received salvation

Succor and solace did I find

All within the depths of my mind. 

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge Orange

DSC04115Orange stage design- at Madame Tussaud’s museum, San Francisco, CA

DSC04220Orange tapestry, Museum of Art and Design, New York Cityfloral rangoliFloral arrangement, Philadelphia Flower ShowDSC04682Orange beach umbrellas, The Bahamas

Life worth living


 DSC04685What do we really need

To live this life indeed

Driven by ambition and greed

We never pay any heed

To the little voice inside

We constantly try to hide

Behind a curtain wide

Of a false sense of pride

Collecting material possessions

In random succession

Making an impression

On others is an obsession

But happiness it never brings

Wasted are expensive things

Fulfilment always springs

From moments that tug at heart’s strings

A kind word, a beatific smile

They can stretch for quite a mile

Make an insipid existence worthwhile

Friendliness never goes out of style.

A helping hand to extend

A shoulder on which one can depend

A mind that can prejudice transcend

An open heart that can befriend

These are the kind of things that make

Life worth living for its sake

Objects and money are fake

Illusions that we must break.

Sunday stills, the next challenge: clouds

https://sundaystills.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/sunday-stills-the-next-challenge-clouds-5/

DSC03022Dark clouds hovering over Roman Forum, Rome, Italy

DSC04578 (2)Fluffy cumulus clouds on a sunny day, BahamasalaskaClouds reflected in a lake, AlaskaLACloud cover over Los Angeles

Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge: 2015 Week #9

Which way should I choose

As along life’s highway I cruise

Fancy-free and footloose

Along the way I search for clues

Clues that guide me constantly

To what my next step should be

Optimistic, with enthusiasm plenty

I strive to soak in whatever I see.

DSC04571Atlantis Resort, Nassau, The BahamasDSC04668At an island in the BahamasDSC04491 (2)Onboard a cruise shipDSC04542At the port of Nassau, The Bahamas

A Word A Week Photograph Challenge – Intricate

Linking to: https://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2015/03/04/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-intricate/

Man is an intricate creature

Made up of helices intertwined

In patterns unique as ordained by nature

Each individual is one of his kind.

DSC04577Intricate mask, Atlantis Resort, Nassau, The Bahamas

DSC03117Intricately painted ceiling, Vatican City

DSC04206Intricately embroidered wall hanging, at the Museum of Art and Design, New York City, New York

amber fort (2)Intricate carving on the door, Amber Fort, Jaipur, India

Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: 2015 Week #9

Capture my imagination

Be an object of fascination

Get my attention undivided

Leave me perplexed, undecided

In which category to place you

An oddball you are, that much is true!

DSC04672A leisurely lizard languishing on a laidback islandDSC04695Wheels on a pole outside a bicycle rentalDSC03722Rhinestone-encrusted car, where else but in Las Vegas?

Forbidden desire

DSC04629 (2)Stealthily creeping

Imperceptibly seeping

Into the crevices of my mind

Unwelcome feelings making me blind

Thoughts amorous

Still quite amorphous

Suddenly emerged out of the blue

Leaving me breathless, without a clue

A chance encounter

Full of idle banter

How it could inspire feelings like this

Euphoric  passion promising me bliss..

Fantasies forbidden

Desires hidden

Tormented by this stormy passion

I stand at the edge of a cliff of depression

Lament my fate

Myself I berate

For falling in love and my descent

In danger’s lap, though inadvertent

Need to remind

My lovesick mind

The commitment I made is a contract

From which I must not retract

My heart restrained

My feelings chained

All forbidden thoughts I did banish

Gradually the tempestuous thoughts did vanish.

***

With sadness, I remember that episode

As a test of myself on life’s road

Never again have I fallen prey

To the temptations that life throws my way.

ONE WORD PHOTO CHALLENGE: TEAL

Here are my entries for this challenge-

All photographs are from an island in the BahamasDSC04650DSC04656DSC04711DSC04690