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98. Louise

Written together by 8 healers who follow Louise Hay. "I experience the beauty of the universe with love and joy - I set out to win it all with a loud yell of ahoy".

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114. Energy Healing

Written with 2 teachers and 2 students at a healing workshop

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129. Healers Creed

To find healing in this world

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138. Vichu

Hope time heals

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144. Hugs

wishing a friend a new chapter,to make her life splendid and super

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147. Super You

DL - There it is, right on my sleeve!

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155. Waves

Choosing between lover and my paper children

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157. Return

Not returned, return (to me)

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162. Ark

Let's work to build a lifeof plenty.

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163. Pains

Learn fast before it is too late

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171. Mend

wonder when beside me you will once again run.

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173. Heal

A long note on not caring about the world or feeling down but to let go the thoughts and HEAL.

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180. Stillness

Remember that in silence lies the potential of the morrow

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182. Dregs

Its time to let go of the pastand come back to life

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193. New Dreams

Looking forward to making new dreams last.

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217. Get Going

The best way to lead is by example, so remember to intervene with kindness and patience tiill the lessons are clear in the wrongdoer's mind.

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226. Spent

I am more mindfulof my thoughtsnow,I pray all the time that things will become better.

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229. Bleed

for Countries torn apart

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230. Boy Interrupted

I sem to falterlord,do show me grace and the strength to go on,fight a little every day.

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232. Cat

I saw a cat on th e terrace ,i wanted to shoutwith delightfor i love animalswith all my heart.

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237. Pep

On friendship, making the most of life and the disappointment of unfulfilled dreams

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3. Brittle

Why do we have to be so brittle with our religions and ideologies? Lets be more tolerant and loving esp towards ourselves.

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4. Love Thy Self

Imploring the reader to love him/herself as I beg myself the same

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6. Love Again

On the rebound from love and questioning everything.

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20. Grace

Another random trip on a day at the hospital

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21. Affirmation

Imran's personal affirmation in 2017

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22. Expectation

The 3 types of expectation (essay written at Veena's request)

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254. Troubled

For 3 friends who are all finding themselves in difficult / estranged relationsships

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262. Careworn

About a man whose spent and feeling a little careworn.

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264. Gibran and I

About how a poet can listen, evoke feelings and help cure the maladies of the world.

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265. Unification

Underscores the need for warming to each other's troubles and dissolving boundaries. Dedicated to the Father of the Indian Nation.

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268. The Van

If evolving is a struggle, this poem sees me coming to terms with my part as an observer, not a doer. The vanguard or fountainhead of human progress.

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272. Desiderata

When a friend (Mustafa) caught me at an emotional moment.

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276. Again

A poem that touches raw on the feelings spouses go through when theyre rejected and have little chance to reflect on their own feelings.

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280. Rock Bottom

For a friend who was feeling low, in the hope that he will cause a change in the trend.

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282. I saw you Cry

For a friend who was broken down.

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283. Rent Asunder

A much needed low propelled by a dear friend.

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284. Strength2

How I look forward to knowing you better - "Stand forth to center and be called out in loving honour... You stand tall, dwarving us with your immense stature... I've been jaded by the wall of pain that surrounds all... The people I love, perhaps it's my turn to stand tall!"

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285. Mistreated

Ah, dear Soph - "No matter whether they seem they will engulf you in sadness and terror... There will come a brighter day when you will smile again and move on"

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289. Toys

Written in the horror of seeing a youngster playing shooting and killing games, I was reminded of the Robin Williams movie Toys

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290. Heal The World

Written for my mother as I come to terms with a grumpy past - "What we all need is a little more patience, understanding and love... We need to plant these as seeds and saplings in Mother Earth's grove"

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291. Closer to Believing

Ah, the thrill of meeting a kindred spirit - "Did you grab the opportunities that came your way to express love... Did your heart sometimes expand and soar up to the skies above"

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294. Mettle

For a friend and her son who "We're a simple folk, firm as bedrock is our faith in the One... Who will show us a way, help us bid our past a firm adieu"

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296. The Blues

About a mother and son who "Together they help people find a way out of any malady... That wisdom or vidya is her gift to times such as these"

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297. My Prayers

About the same mother - "My prayers that you grow into a source of delight soon... A girl I saw a spark of as her healing put us on the moon"

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298. Umbrella

Wriiten when a matriarch was called to Eden above and how her Umbrella continues to protect her family.

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310. Reach

I keep planting seeds of brotherly caring,but it falls on deaf ears,dont they cry at another's grieif, one that's so painful.

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328. Licked

Have faiththe game is not overyetand beg that deep within-your heart courageously holds sway.

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330. Grew

When losing a parent, we hit a new low and our feelings get all jammed up. How will this raw grief bring about a catharsis for us?

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332. Pray

Like the masters say - we should FREE ourselves from all LIMITATIONS and SOAR ON HIGH in SERVICE to the DIVINE.

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354. Dawn3

As a friend comes to a crossroads, my trying to give her courage and resolve. Happy to say shes already well on the mend.

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361. Nani

I want to break fre but it seems i lack the nerve, lead the way, help me on green pastures to serve.

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366. Forgiving

Written about the story a friend and filmmaker had just made about compassion and forgiveness in the atrocities of war

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369. Neat

Written for a young girl who wants to turn healer and trying to offer her some perspective

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397. Bayonet

With pain, now gone, since I spoke about it and wrote Clarinet. Am almost mended now, though it caused much pain and anguish for many years. "I sincerely pray for peace for those warriors who wrest With life as her very future lies in the balance, now rest"

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399. Spent2

For a dear friend whose very peaceful future was and is being threatened. I do not agree with her decision not to go down with guns blazing, but respect the strength she has for choosing that. "My advice to you, all friends - is to just recover fast and keep moving - we know this life as bumpy, yet chose it, so make it one of giving"

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403. Clarinet

A sequel to the Bayonet, this hope for all that can be good in life again as I evolve the thought with a dear friend.

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423. Making Love

"I'd recall to you my story of love and friendship, still hopeful... That you'd one day realize I was simply in your spell"

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1. Mumzy1

My first "sit-down-and-write" essay with my mother, Uma. Its about her beloved son, me <3

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448. O Divine

We run amok thinking this Earth to us does belong. In your despite we play with fire, not having the sense That your dreams can take us to the very heavens!

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477. On Divorce

For a near and dear sweet friend whose on the verge of separation and divorce

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480. Lost Without Music

This poem describes a friend whose feeling low and "unable to hear the music"

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492. Lovingly Heal

A prayer for a dear friend that she recover quickly from a fall and fracture.

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497. Good Fight

Still trying to cheer that friend up and not seem a duffer.

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500. Enough2

Dead set against all forms of war, this one ends with: "Come my much loved species, time to turn the page!"

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508. Fight3

A prayer to stand in the sun, having conquered the lower tendencies - and an invitation to all to come do the same.

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509. The Way I Feel

About a friend no longer beside me, in continuation to a letter I wrote her in 2018.

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512. Hope3

Asking Kim to be strong and not let past griefs overpower him.

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514. Let Me Go

A boy asking leave of his tough family.

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516. Beat

Raggedly thinking again about the bondage to family.

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519. Pain

For a friend bowed down by circumstance.

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522. Joy3

Still trying to buoy the spirits of that friend.

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523. Dear Problems

Small reminder to self about how problems can be dissolved in God.