"~ free"

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Do not let your fears

Become your jailer

The walls are just a token

Your spirit is free

Do not let your failures

Become your captor

The shackles are now broken

This is your winning spree

Do not let the noises

Become your sentry

The music is within you

You are your best way to be.

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"Children's Park / Peace Of Mind"

Kids in the park

In their eyes that spark

Wish I can make it mine

This eternal sunshine

Carefree laughter

No thought of what comes after

Paper boats

Rains without coats

Hues of butterflies

In crisp blue skies

Rolling in the sand

Then dusting off with a hand

Many a names

for a single game

Generations pass

But they are the same

Flavors of Youth 

served piping hot

Worries lost

In one fine shot

Here ageing reverses 

In high speed

Peace of mind

Guaranteed...!!!

A Poem On A Poem

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A poem is sacred

It has a life of itself

It chooses which pages

Of which book on the shelf

A poem is like a soul

Waiting for some skin

It's being is intact

Through the thick and the thin

Just like a player is

never bigger than the game

The poem picks its subject

While only changing the name...!!!

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Book Review: Unladylike by Radhika Vaz

A book that makes you think and laugh, at the same time. That is something very few books can do!

There are some books which are to be swallowed, some which are to be enjoyed sip by sip, and some which are to be downed in one big gulp. I had to chew this one, bite by bite. And I am glad I did. 

Unlike most times when I really get excited about a book and the book turns out to be a 2 on a scale of 10, this one lived up to the expectations, and more. 

The humor is fresh and crisp, and the under-thoughts​ are powerful. Along with making you laugh, smirk or nod in the silent appreciation of things that you always wanted​ to express but were somehow too timid to say yourself, the words in this book also make you think. 

I especially loved the part which the author dedicates to the pressure society creates on become parents 'On Time' and where she explains that if she ever wants/decides to become a parent, she would want to become 'The Dad'. I echo those emotions.

On my scale of Joy of Reading, this one is a 3.5/5.

Book Review: Three Thousand Stitches by Sudha Murty

There are only two prerequisites for being a story teller - having a good story, and having the unending desire to tell it.
There are also only two prerequisites for a good story - content and fluidity of expression.
Rest everything are side-effects.

And Sudha Murty does it best once again with her latest collection called Three Thousand Stitches.

These stories are a delight, for any time and any age. And the fact that these are real life accounts only adds to the joy of reading. Yes, truth is, more oftentimes, stranger than fiction. And at many points during the course of the book, this truth gives goosebumps, for the wonder called life.

Being a mother has seriously challenged my capacity to digest stories which don't end on an happily ever after, and I am trying to come out of it. But till then, I thank T.J.S. George who inspired the author to tell her stories.

With eleven bite sized chapters, this collection is different from her other works. It is reveling, relatable, thought provoking, thoroughly enjoyable and leaves the reader high on life. A unique token of gratitude, a chance meeting, having to eat your own words or being the single girl student in an engineering college class with 149 boys years ago, these are things that could or could not happen to anyone of us. Weaved in her characteristically simple English, the aftertaste of these stories will remain with you long after the last page has been turned over. And if I were to tell which was my favorite, well, hands down it has to be chapter number 6.

On my scale of Joy of Reading, I mark it a 3.5/5