Trusting Tuesday and school bullies

Trusting Tuesday and school bullies (A Senryū )

I did not take it!
I swear! I’m telling the truth!
Nothing but the truth!

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Tom witnessed a boy on the toilet floor pleading innocence.
The bullies were kicking him for stealing a mobile phone.
Did the school believe him?
Would Tom be the next victim if he had reported?

Quotes:-

  1. Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. – Confucius
  2. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.- – Mark Twain.
  3. The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.- John F. Kennedy

A baby snake had a dorm in CHAOS!

A baby snake had a dorm in CHAOS! (a Haiku)

I was at a mediation center in the middle of a jungle. After a heavy thunderous night, a baby snake’s visit caused chaos in the female dorm!

brown snake
A snake (Photo by mark broadhurst on Pexels.com)
Heavy thunderstorm
good morning, everybody!
It’s time to get up!

May opened the door
But quickly opened her legs!
Greeted by a snake! 
The little wiggly quickly
 slided in beneath her legs!!

'Snake! A baby snake!'
In seconds, all atop beds!
Help! Somebody! Please!

'Please go to the meditation hall.
We’ll take care of this baby!'
Seemed a norm to them!

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Blogging: understanding my viewerships thus far

Blogging: understanding my viewerships thus far

United States (7471 views)

India (3679 views)

Italy (2572 views)

Malaysia ( 2079 views)

Spain, UK, Canada, Australia, Indonesia, Turkey…

Malaysia is fourth in viewership of my posts. Many of them aren’t bloggers, probably friends and acquaintances.

I love recipes, short stories, and poems. I learn to appreciate photography and new digital arts!

It has been a good experience reading posts from the seventy-eight countries. 🙏🙏🙏

Blogging: Viewership supporters

Blogging: Viewership supporters

Stats till August 2021

My viewership

comprises a handful of

staunch likathoners.

They are probably trying to help me

I am sorry

I was not able

to return them as much

though I do enjoy

your posts and your recipes.

But thanks to you

all the same!

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Faithful Friday with the News Breaker

Faithful Friday- nightmares after a cancer diagnosis ( a sketch by author)

Faithful Friday with the News Breaker

This is a poetic triplet (tercet) depicting faith and the anguish after a cancer diagnosis.

They come to break the cancer news
decision over treatments, I muse
with meditative prayers and cues.

Vegetarian I am on Fridays
Feeling dispirited, in malaise
At times, in denial, fiercely ablaze.

In your hand I take it all in a stride
though tears came and dried
this journey I will take under your guide.

Quotes:-

  1. Be faithful in small things because it is them that your strength lies. – Mother Teresa

Working and retiring…

aged woman in eyeglasses surfing internet on laptop
Working and retiring (Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels.com)

WORKING AND RETIRING

Work and the brain works for you, too!

Retire, and it retires, too!

So in the nothingness, boredom, and dreams,

does the brain work?

                                    -Serena Chen S.P.

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Fly with the wind!

Fly with the wind!

Depicting scene fly with the wind
Fly with the wind

Cancer took away her only child.

She has withdrawn to her room,

grieving with knees to her chest,

with a sense of impending doom.

Failed motherhood– in her mind.

Her family members persuade,

like pretty ribbons that bind,

with love and compassion conveyed.

Have a key to open your mind,

to release a kite into the sky,

no trees to be twinned,

up in the wind, it’s free to fly!

Being void of pain now,

liberates him… fly, fly freely.

The kite has a blue ribbon bow,

just like it was on his collar, really!

Those cows in the slaughterhouse,

anyone can see, as can a blind,

in those dishes in a coffee house,

reminds her heart to be kind.

Battling conscious against subconscious mind,

blaming with obligations and guilty conscience,

her vegetarian diets and daily meditations that bind,

with humility with reverence…

wishing that he eases into his new journey,

in this vow to her child, post-humously…

So, fly, fly with wind!

p/s: This poem offers a closure to the story ‘A White Lie- about an ostomy‘.

Mr Ponusamy’s kite coasted and fluttered in the sky freely, too, soothing those in need below, in the last few months of his life.

– Serena Chen S.P. @ TPTan –

27 October , 2020

Manageable Monday with MyMama Cut!

Manageable Monday with MyMama’s Cut ( A Senryū)

Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pexels.com

Clip, snip, clip and snip!

Nothing like My Mama’s Cut,

head feeling lighter!

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Quote:-

I always feel good after I change my hair. You get a haircut and feel positive and ready to take on the day.- Kirstin Maldonado

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A blogger reads and writes

A blogger reads and writes ( haiku)

Read, read, digest them!

Assimilate, recreate.

A new synthesis!

person writing on a notebook beside macbook
Photo by Judit Peter on Pexels.com

This Haiku is about how a blogger grows! The amount of readings and researches forms the basis of new ideas for writings.

Quotes:-

  1. “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” —Stephen King
  2.  “… Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” – Annie Proulx