Bless me with clarity of thought
Soothe my insecurities with calm
Lead me with your kind light
Through the wrong path, don’t let me wander
Remind me each day of your goodness
Help me to breathe
Give up all control
Surrender completely to your will
This day and forever more.
Miracles may not always be
As obvious as you may think
These are little blessings
We forget to acknowledge
Call it mere coincidence
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What if we wrote them down?
Whenever something goes in our favour
Take a moment to put it into words
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On that bad day when everything goes wrong?
Work’s terrible, you yell at your family
Oh, and that dreadful rain!
Pick up that book, read every story
Maybe it won’t help at that time
Or perhaps it’ll make you smile
We can’t change every situation
But our attitude, hey, that’s in our hands!
Muddy brown kelp floats upon the crystal blue
A lone Mosasaur, ungainly, in a sorrowful deluge
The underwater plexus of magnificent sea creatures:
Reduced to nothing, at some comet’s nonchalant whim
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Amidst joyful migration, the earth had exploded
Against a sharp cliff edge, its melanin mutilated
Teary nickel eyes tell a story of loss and survivor’s guilt
Others of its kind all gone; bodies, non-submersible
Millions of years later, this phase will surely repeat
Aarambham
Avasaanam
Punarjanmam.
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Dear Readers,
This has been a response to Wordle #85 by Mind Love Misery’s Menagerie.
In case you are wondering, this poem is written about the Cretaceous- Paleogene extinction event that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs.
The idea for this poem kind of evolved (pun intended) after I searched about animals that have the melanin pigment in their bodies, and saw pictures of this amazing animal: a mosasaur, which is a type of dinosaur that inhabited the inland seas of the earth around 66 million years ago.
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So that was the long and complicated thought process I had, after going through the words in the prompt :p
The words were:
1.Water
2. Submersible
3. Kelp (brown algae)
4. Migration
5. Plexus (a network, as of nerves or blood vessels. any complex structure containing an intricate network of parts: the plexus of international relations.)
6. Ungainly
7. Nonchalant
8. Mutilate
9. Nickel
10. Melanin (any of a class of insoluble pigments, found in all forms of animal life,that account for the dark color of skin, hair, fur, scales, feathers, etc.)
11. Phase
12. The last word I want you to invent (give a definition in the beginning). If you are fluent in a language other than English you can alternatively teach us a special word in that language. These words will be gathered up for future use ;-).
You guys must be wondering about the last 3 words in this poem and their meaning.
The three words and their meaning in the Indian language, Malayalam are as follows:
Aarambham : The beginning
Avasaanam: The end
Punarjanmam: Rebirth or Reincarnation
Use at least 10 of the words to create a story or poem (these are hard!)
The words can appear in an alternate form
Use the words in any order that you like.
(Image courtesy: http://thesax66.deviantart.com/art/Mosasaur-496620483))
Hope you all enjoyed it and thanks for reading!
Till next time,
2PP
We covered up our feelings
Fried chicken and icecream
Chocolate fudge over heartache
Pretending tears are from the heat
Then I looked at you sitting there
Convincing me that it’s only for a few days
And I saw:
I wasn’t the only one you’re convincing.
