Reinvented spring
3 January 2016
Spectacles, new eyes
Look within their frame’s focus
Winter’s snow turns crisp
Next doors a bird chirps
A leafy tree in desert
Reinvented spring
Rain’s pitter patter
Upon the meadows flowers
Snow preserved by walls
Beach sands extended
Slight rivers joining the sea
Summer kissed winter
Images from my camera for the flowers (all from my garden) and from luxuo.com, worldoftravel.com, ink361.com, gadling.com for the Dubai sightseeing points landscapes
I wrote this poem in a series of Haiku bordering on Senryu because it struck me how much it is typical of this country in its winter to know of three seasons within the same time; mainly winter, spring and summer together but during some days winter, spring and autumn bizarrely depending on where you are going. The winter symbol is of course man-made with the construction of ski Dubai in Mall of the Emirates where you can go skiing regardless of the temperature outside. Winter here is the equivalent of spring in Europe and when it is not raining the weather is fantastic, flowers are blooming and birds are chirping everywhere.
Spyro Gyra – Cafe Amore
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Your words are, of course, Beautiful. But the pictures were a great touch! Love it. You’re a wonderful photographer. 🙂
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Your words are, of course, Beautiful. But the pictures were a remarkable touch. So beautiful. You’re a great photographer. 🙂
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Thank you Eric. I am glad you liked the pics as well. I love photography and must have taken over 10,000 pics just in a couple of years. I have many albums on facebook and many more pictures that I never uploaded. It’s like the cliché about the Japanese 😀
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Beautiful the whole presentation.
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Thank you Tosha. How odd, this is the umpteenth time I don’t get some notifications about comments and I missed out on yours and Eric’s.
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No worries. It happens to me all the time. Lots of love
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Thanks and lots of love to you too 🙂
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My first thought was how odd it was to have a poem referencing spring in the dead of winter, but your explanation made it all understandable. Lovely words! Where are you from then? Dubai?
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Thank you :). I live in Dubai but am not originally from Dubai.
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Being from one place and living in another always adds something to the writing process. Shall I ask where you are from?
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That is true. I am what one would call a Third Culture Kid (I even wrote a poem about it). My mother is Tunisian and my father is Indian and while I grew up for some time in the one and the other countries, I spent most of my life in Geneva, Switzerland before coming to Dubai in 2007. Living in all these different countries and having had a multicultural family broadens my horizons I think.
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Oh yeah, I bet. Sounds like a very culturally diverse background.
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It is made of a blend of opposites with some similarities thrown in for cementing it all 😀
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Another gorgeous piece, this time showcasing your talented camera work…your opening line describe how we see the world through the lens – those new eyes/spectacles and your photography is as stunning as your writing.Great post, Geetha and thanks for sharing your wonderful artistry with us 😀
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Thank you Thomas, hit the nail on the head. I did mean camera but was also playing on the definition of spectacles as I love adding meaning to my poems like some russian dolls with layers of intention 😀
I am glad you liked the pics. Thank you for your comments my friend 🙂
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You are kindly welcome, my friend…you always succeed in adding layers to your work…it speaks to the layers of yourself, I imagine 🙂
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Rightly imagined. The more I shed layers the more I discover other hidden ones, lol
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Love the poem and the music…Spryo Grya originally formed in my hometown Buffalo, NY…We actually have many famous musicians from our area…biasedly I think we have a large collection of top-notch artists in many different genres from western NY. A blue collar city with a distinctive creative artistic soul.
Happy New Year Geetha…Wishing all the best in 2016 and beyond ღ
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Blessed be your area then 🙂 Did the blues and soul music not arise from sorrow of the slaves? I think that working in direct relationship with the Earth and its products keeps the soul more vivid although the other extreme when taken within a philosophical concept can also have the same effect. Happy New Year and many more to come for you Mark. I hope you are doing well this year and all is well within your family too. Much love to you all.
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Thank you so much…My mom is improving daily…so yes things are well 🙂 ….Much love to you and yours as well my dear friend ღ
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So glad to hear that Mark. Much love to you and yours too dear friend. Sorry about not answering but for some reason I am not getting many notifications of comments. Just found this via WPadmin dashboard.
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