IT took, another one.

Saving Space for this POST.

Thoughts are Too MANY right now. Will be posting contents soon.
<updated on 22 June 2020>

 

It’s one week already, and my mind can’t wrap itself on the thought of a well known Actor Sushant Singh Rajput committing suicide due to his mental illness.

Though there are many speculations, & it can be a planned murder. But India has already lost one of very talented Actor on 14 June 2020. I have loved and praised him several times for his performances and it just hurts me, that we will not be able to see more of those now.

Last week when I saved this “space”, I was under the thoughts of how WE as an individual fails to acknowledge the simple thought that we are “LIVING”. This year, we humans have been thrown into many human made (may be) and natural disaster. Be it Corona, earthquakes, or floods, many of us have been surviving alone or with family.

This is exactly the time, when one can feel “alone” too, so PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ASK YOUR very near one’s or even the odd one’s if they are OKAY.

I myself have distanced myself from social media like whatsapp, instagram and my blog too. But this is only because I don’t want to get in the whirlwind of thoughts what others go. It is very necessary to understand what your MIND/mental state can take into, and it’s not a shame or shyness to accept it. But at the same time, I have connected with some of my old friends, from my graduation or my first online friends (10 years ago), or my first Flatmates in Mumbai. And it’s so good to hear from them how the time has treated them. Many married, have kids, moved places and lost loved ones (haven’t we all have!?)

This post was suppose to be TO LET YOU KNOW, that —>

It’s totally OKAY! if you want to take break from people (online/offline) because humans can be a very much reason for your mind not at peace.

It’s totally OKAY! if your mind breaks into pieces because after that there surely will be a masterpiece out of it.

It’s totally OKAY! to connect with friends after a loooong time, because that will surely give you happy memories you spent with them.

It’s totally OKAY! if your favorite pastime is not your favorite anymore, because that means you can look out for 1000th option to pass your time.

It’s totally OKAY! to be NOT Okay! Because it only makes us MORE HUMAN.
Just remember, to talk to one or more of your closed & near, dear ones. They give perspective to our unravelled thoughts, and they clear all the dusty air that keeps our mind always congested.

 

So BE HAPPY (alone or with someone)
BE HEALTHY (mentally and physically)
BE WEALTHY (not just with money, but people too)

——– Hope this post makes any sense, and help someone who needs this ——– 

Take Care..
With Love & Warm Hugs,
-mpsn, nehuu..

Girls Like Us

Girls Like Us

by Elizabeth Hazen
Publisher: Alan Squire Press
Release Date:  March 2020

 

Girls Like Us is packed with fierce, eloquent, and deeply intelligent poetry focused on female identity and the contradictory personas women are expected to embody. The women in these poems sometimes fear and sometimes knowingly provoke the male gaze. At times, they try to reconcile themselves to the violence that such attentions may bring; at others, they actively defy it. Hazen’s insights into the conflict between desire and wholeness, between self and self-destruction, are harrowing and wise. The predicaments confronted in Girls Like Us are age-old and universal—but in our current era, Hazen’s work has a particular weight, power, and value.

I love reading poetry, and mostly I instantly feel them connected to me. But with Girls Like Us, it started slow I was confused at the beginning. But as I kept reading, & the poem’s came across as a rebel, and what WE (girls) go through most of our life. Called by names, Eyes those see us, Feeling we go through, Fears our mind has and Thoughts that keep us awake at nights.

I liked how different were each poem’s crafted, with different ideas portraying issues Girls/Women have. The book cover is exactly what the book talks about.

I like poems those rhyme, and this one has only one such poem. But still I quiet liked this whole book, and I would recommend whoever reads it, please read it like a “Spoken Poetry” because that way you will connect more to the poems and words. I realized this a bit later in 3-4th poem and after that, each poem spoke to me.

I would recommend these to everyone, who likes reading meaningful poetry that don’t naturally rhyme.

Moving Day

My mind’s
an emptied drawer, its clutter filed away.

Photograph

He left no trace
but an edge of shadow, the picture’s only flaw.

Driving Home at Dawn

Even now,
my fingertips tingle,
your name like a host
on my tongue.

Electricity

I lie until his
breath deepens and the ticking
clock becomes a heartbeat.

⭐ ⭐ ⭐  .5

Elizabeth Hazen is a poet, essayist, and teacher. A Maryland native, she came of age in a suburb of Washington, D.C. in the pre-internet, grunge-tinted 1990s, when women were riding the third wave of feminism and fighting the accompanying backlash. She began writing poems when she was in middle school, after a kind-hearted librarian handed her Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind. She has been reading and writing poems ever since.

Hazen’s work explores issues of addiction, mental health, and sexual trauma, as well as the restorative power of love and forgiveness. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, American Literary Review, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, The Threepenny Review, The Normal School, and other journals. Alan Squire Publishing released her first book, Chaos Theories, in 2016. Girls Like Us is her second collection. She lives in Baltimore with her family.

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to be, or not to be..

The question which encapsulates my mind the most.!

“to be, or not to be..”?

Being temporary away is easy and coming back is so very difficult (esp. for me). Because, it disturbs me to think there will be people who can question the disappearance, and if there is no one to question, it can disturb me more…

Being an introvert, is kind of running alone in the race and still praying not to win it. Because Winning will mean, there will be claps. *No we don’t want claps. Let us be in behind.*

Coming back means, you can have an extra tunnel to channel your creative/stupid mind. But it also means, to be more “interactive”. Because now-a-days it’s all about “being e-social” in social distance.

So this is my first step to be back, to my social media writing as well as bookstagram account. I am not sure, WHEN it will happen in proper. But MAY BE SOON!

If anyone reads this, here is to hoping that everything is well at your side in this pandemic. I wish you & your family well.

-mpsn, nehuu..