tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83206681423623430922024-03-18T13:24:40.778+05:30Second thoughts First...Labels on my forehead are better than blinkers on my mindPooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.comBlogger776125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-12451335539054921042021-09-09T00:00:00.005+05:302021-09-09T00:00:00.198+05:30You, me and ...... maybe youYour hands trace the contoursI smileYou softly let your fingers scrollon my warm skinI smell green appleswhat is it?Your perfume or incense?In the quietI can hear your heartbeatand you can touch mine.Each scar, each mark,has a tale to tell!you gently brusha stray strand of hairfrom my facetuck it behind my earand tracea gushing stream of cold waterdown my neck,I release my stiff shouldersmy Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-50814328435045840692021-04-30T00:00:00.001+05:302021-04-30T00:00:00.228+05:30Zalatwic #NewNormal #A2Z Zalatwic (Polish)to get done any how Everyone staggering to helpStaggering strugglingFighting, wantingdefeating, recedingscamperingnobody knows the right wayeveryone just clawing their waythrough this wasteland***************************This is my 6th #AtoZ, read the posts from previous challenges HERE.Find a List of all my 2021 AtoZ posts HERE.This post is part of #Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-55172432305152045342021-04-29T00:00:00.002+05:302021-04-29T10:26:05.199+05:30Ya'aburnee #NewNormal #A2ZYa'aburnee(Arabic)A way to declare your hope that your loved one will outlive you because of how unbearable it would be to live without them.Death and mourning so much grief heartbreakingto see a loved one departis tearing us all apart this is not the world we wishedthis is not .....may nobody lose a loved one may nobody bear this pain alone.*******************************ThisPooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-74631994005669012462021-04-28T00:00:00.001+05:302021-04-28T00:00:00.251+05:30XO #NewNormal #A2Z XOabbreviation (hugs and kisses)Remember once upon a timeWe would hug peoplewe would kiss loved oneswe would touch without fearwe would cherish the warmth now we have a scarcityand most scarce is what we took for granted"Human Touch"***************************This is my 6th #AtoZ, read the posts from previous challenges HERE.Find a List of all my 2021 AtoZ posts HERE.This post is Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-90505260319841445002021-04-27T00:00:00.009+05:302021-04-27T00:00:00.231+05:30Wabi-Sabi #NewNormal #A2Z Wabi-Sabi (Japanese) A Japanese concept and art of imperfect beautySo it is what it is will you let it be?yes, maybetry to be kindtry to be helpfulaccept the new realitybut make it easy for everybodywabi sabi!**************************This is my 6th #AtoZ, read the posts from previous challenges HERE.Find a List of all my 2021 AtoZ posts HERE.This post is part of #Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-84671687727202433792021-04-26T00:00:00.000+05:302021-04-26T00:00:00.218+05:30Vaitrishnya #NewNormal #A2Z Vaitrishnya (Sanskrit) Non-attachment, being in a state of no cravingWhat is this time a dream has gone wronga nightmaredespair, death or woe begonewhere are we is all lost from detached attachedto now complete non -attachedthe era of letting go and passing on.**********************This is my 6th #AtoZ, read the posts from previous challenges HERE.Find a Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-32784591163630821142021-04-24T00:00:00.001+05:302021-04-24T00:00:00.204+05:30Ubuntu #NewNormal #A2Z Ubuntu (African) I am because you are. The belief that we are defined by our compassion and kindness for others.How we wish and maybesometimes cherishthat we do it all alone! but the fact remainsno human can be an islandat best we are wallsor bridgesheld together byall the other bricks and mortarlife lived collectively and together is the best by far.***************Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-90738874186700519062021-04-23T00:00:00.001+05:302021-04-23T00:00:00.247+05:30Toska #NewNormal #A2Z Toska (Russian) A sensation of great spiritual anguish without any specific causeI think of handshands of people textures, colors, fragrancestastes, timesand a blur, a cloudan entire future in a fogthe heart like an old fortabandoned yet existinghope like a heartbeatthere yet not felt.***************************This is my 6th #AtoZ, read the posts from previous challenges Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-1807476644992095982021-04-22T00:00:00.001+05:302021-04-22T00:00:00.385+05:30Safarnama #NewNormal #A2ZSafarnama (su-fur-nama) (Persian)Travelogue; An account of the travelsSafar & Humsafarjourney and companion for itA strange year shattered those hopesNowhere to gonobody to go withAn invisible prisonno safarno safarnama***************************This is my 6th #AtoZ, read the posts from previous challenges HERE.Find a List of all my 2021 AtoZ posts HERE.This post is part Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-3060596966682898072021-04-21T00:00:00.001+05:302021-04-21T00:00:00.237+05:30Retrouvailles #NewNormal #A2Z Retrouvailles Pronunciation (ruh-troov-eye) (French)The happiness of meeting again after a long timeOh how I missholding a hand skin on skinthe warmth of another beating heartnext to minethese were regularnormal thingsand now it is a desirea privilegea longing....a hope.....**************************This is my 6th #AtoZ, read the posts from previous challenges HERE.Find a Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-27672908380966038592021-04-20T00:00:00.001+05:302021-04-20T00:00:00.235+05:30Quandry of Quarantine #NewNormal #A2Z Quandry(English) Dilemma Someone said What keeps something out also shuts you in a door can be a pathway it can also be a prison gate and then there was a new QQ as in Quarantinethe quandry of staying in and staying apartThe chasm that grows and fadesquandry to quandry**********************This is my 6th #AtoZ, read the posts from previous challenges Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-40045654361558832472021-04-19T00:00:00.001+05:302021-04-19T00:00:00.233+05:30Parea #NewNormal #A2ZParea(Greek) A group of friends who gather to share life experiencesIt started as chatsrandom in abandonand then in groupswe would listen to sorrowto loss to lonelinesstill one day all we hada link, time and schedulepeople in windows looking at other windowsno hope of a hug or a pat on the back or holding a hand only a face on a screen only a longing for&Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-74893355102964196552021-04-17T00:00:00.002+05:302021-04-17T09:58:21.304+05:30Onism #NewNormal #A2ZOnism(Danish) The awareness of how little of the world you’ll experience; The frustration of being stuck in just one body that inhabits only one place at a timeYOLO is the keyword is it But is once enoughis this one time enoughthe years subtracted in sleepin illness, in fear, in heartbreakand now pandemicis it not subtracting from my once a lifetime chance at life!************Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-87441477128805395972021-04-16T00:00:00.001+05:302021-04-16T00:00:00.236+05:30Nadir #NewNormal #A2Z Nadir(Arabic) the worst moment of a particular situationthe Zenith is never fixedhumans always strive for higher, bigger, betterand hence nothing is hated as hated as the nadirthe lowest, worst and last.Humanity went through it allin the spam of a pandemicthe philanthropyand the apathythe hope and the griefagain and againthe wave up and downlife itself.**************************Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-25864802859149259632021-04-15T00:00:00.001+05:302021-04-15T00:00:00.334+05:30Marasim #NewNormal #A2Z Marasim (Urdu) RelationsPeople meet all the timeand get entangled like woolen threadsa knot here, a twist theresome even fading and some leaving a shade on the other And sometimes people break tooLike tense strings snap!memory of a marasim and if they join again the knot remains.Tough times are expensiveThey cost a lotsometimes sanity, Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-16121651340866707702021-04-14T00:00:00.002+05:302021-04-14T10:09:29.735+05:30Layogenic #NewNormal #A2ZLayogenic(Tagalog) The experience of seeing something that looks good far away but really bad close up.It looked like a vacation firsttime to pauseto slow downto look aroundand then it got stagnantso still that it began to stink the robotic routinethe monotonous dinwhat looked like a freedom was a prison within.***************************This is my 6th #AtoZ, read the posts from Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-90460459280626151572021-04-13T00:00:00.001+05:302021-04-13T00:00:00.239+05:30Kummerspeck #NewNormal #A2Z Kummerspeck (German)Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally "grief bacon."Some of us have the privilegesso many that we lose countand we fail to identifyoften when and how A privilegebecomes a cageFood not for survivalbut food to satiate this ragethis sadnessThe hopelessness of this plagueWhat is on your plate?Is it just food?or an opiate.*******************This Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-43280403381643914802021-04-12T00:00:00.001+05:302021-04-12T00:00:00.214+05:30Jijivisha #NewNormal #A2Z Jijivisha(Hindi) The Strange eternal desire to live and continue living In the worse situation too the urge to surviveone more day maybeto let the hope thrive People go through so muchthey say the grief of deathis shed at the crematorium gatewhen people returnbecause how else does one survive?pain, heartbreak, and deaththe dystopia that we live inhow else do we Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-33874664396812241672021-04-10T00:00:00.002+05:302021-04-10T08:15:23.549+05:30Iktsuarpok #NewNormal #A2Z Iktsuarpok (Inuit) (pronounced eek-soow-uhr-pohk)excited for someone's arrivalLook up at the shiny apartmentsStacked like shiny matchboxesOne atop the otheror the small huts huddled togetherthe bungalows far apartor the small houses on farmsa work of art!Look at them after sunsetwhen the lights come onit seems all of them wait for someone to be homefor a warm meala Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-46955541223871095842021-04-09T00:00:00.001+05:302021-04-09T00:00:00.499+05:30Hitoritabi #NewNormal #A2ZHitoritabi (Japanese)- Traveling alone, solitary journeyWhen there was nowhere to go outsideno arrivals and departuresthe entire journey had to be turned insideto the never-ending questwho am I?Do I really need all that I thought I did?Do I really love all that I assumed I must?What are the essentials?What are the frills?A solo trip like no otheralone with myselfin my own knowingfor thePooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-9899633967699891902021-04-08T00:00:00.001+05:302021-04-08T00:00:00.241+05:30Ghodar-dim #NewNormal #A2ZGhodar-dim (ঘোড়ার ডিম) (Bengali– Pronounced [gho-rar-deem])A sarcastic term for ‘nothing’ or false hope. It literally means ‘horse’s egg’, therefore representing something that doesn’t exist.First, they said the summer would cure it Then they said let's think of us as a herdLater they hoped it will cure itselfThen they looked for miracle divineplaces of worship, or some shrineThen we Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-47846019045615203502021-04-07T00:00:00.001+05:302021-04-07T00:00:00.248+05:30Fernweh #NewNormal #AtoZ Fernweh (German) An Ache for distant placesHumans since time immemorialneeded more thanshelter, bread, and sexhome, hearth, and safetythe urge that made themconquer mountainssail the seaslook for life beyond this blue dotand now this sense of adventurelies cagedin fear.Mechanical human wingsoars and wheelsare now chainedbut has the Fernweh been fueled or has it ceased?**Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-56595576041575791992021-04-06T00:00:00.001+05:302021-04-06T00:00:00.229+05:30Eucatastrophe #NewNormal #A2ZEucatastrophe (Neologism) Coined by JRR Tolkien, a eucatastrophe is the opposite of a catastrophe—a sudden and unexpected event of happiness or good fortune.The calamity had hit usand hit our homes, kitchens and gyms but differentlyso many were finding a lost talentthe lost motivation to cook, to do, to learn againChallenges are the new normalRituals Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-89863391580278929062021-04-05T00:00:00.020+05:302021-04-05T09:59:56.305+05:30Drapetomania #Newnormal #A2ZDrapetomania(Greek) An overwhelming urge to run awayHere is an invisible cagea soul serving a life sentencethe urge to flyto run awayto be Icarus for a dayto fly close to the sunwhatever consequencesmight come my waybut then the fear freezes the mindand I run far away in a"Mindcation" that is all I can affordthe Blue mosque, or seashellsor somewhere in the hillsthe urge to break freeto run Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320668142362343092.post-61427701558034360372021-04-03T00:00:00.007+05:302021-04-03T10:00:13.670+05:30 Chutzpah #NewNormal #A2ZChutzpah(Yiddish) adopting a ‘don’t-take-no-for-an-answer’ attitudeSo it was here to stayI looked it in the eyein the quiet of many nightsamidst the lonely panicin the middle of an anxiety attackit stood firmtesting all I had!A year later it stands firm againin that dark spot in my bedroom and my heartand I stand where I dosurviving every daynot on airjust chutzpah!*******************Pooja Priyamvadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276632648811903859noreply@blogger.com40