25 thoughts on “Broken but beautiful #Poetry”

1. Thank you hari, for reading.

2. touching poem…the tribute! sad….

3. What a lovely tribute, Shailaja! It’s heartbreaking that the world has come to this.

4. A very touching poem. What happened in Orlando is very sad and scary. Whatever happened to humanity?! Hoping dearly that love and acceptance will be restored in this world.

5. Such a touching tribute, and from so far away. Thank you for your compassion, Shailaja. I love the progression of “smoke in the air / my hair / my belly / my bloodied wrists” – the internal rhyme and the alliteration. It rolls beautifully off the tongue.

6. Thank you Shubangi. It’s a feeling of helplessness. What can we do?

7. Beautiful verse. So touching. ‘Remnants of the people who used to be’ is one the most soul touching lines I have ever read Shailaja. So unfortunate that violence continues to dominate the minds of people as the easiest means to seek a way out.

8. I’m hoping all the love in the world will overshadow all the hate. Effectively.

9. That was a beautiful touching tribute to Orlando. I wonder when people will begin to accept others who are not the same as them.

10. I sincerely hope not, Asha. I’m still praying that there’s kindness and compassion left in the world. Truly

11. We have become intolerant and are becoming more day by day. Probably this is the way humans were supposed to go ?

12. You and me both,Mithila. I’m just praying that things improve soon. We live in hope.

13. It’s weird that people are finding people who are different weird. It’s horrible that people are taking recourse to guns and death to harm people, to prove a futile point. It’s shocking that some of us human beings can’t be tolerant anymore.

    Damn, I wonder where our world will go in the near future?

14. Completely understand that feeling. It’s so heartbreaking.

15. So well said. In the end,love always wins. But at terrible cost too 🙁

16. So tragic! It all seems so senseless and yet one just ends up feeling helpless.

17. It is so ironic… one inhumane act of terror unleashes a sea of humanity. Strangers from all walks of life come together to rebuild what was broken. There may be a lot of evil in the world, but the good still outweighs it.

18. ‘Push God aside and take over’. So well said. How can anyone do this? Who gives them the authority? Sandy Hook, Peshawar, every single place my heart breaks again.

19. Does one value life anymore? One moment we are there and the next moment it’s all over! And why? Because someone fancied the sight of blood on innocent souls! Because someone decided to push God aside and take over!
    A touching post, Shailaja!

20. I still am too 🙁 Writing it down helps me cope somewhat with the magnitude. It’s the only salve I know 🙁

21. I know exactly what you mean. I broke down when I heard her singing Hello. Such a wonderful beautiful soul. Snatched away. Makes no sense. None at all.

22. I don’t know, Vinay. Honestly. Some days it seems futile to wake up. What sin have they committed? Any of them? The world makes no sense. Just broken today. 🙁

23. I’m still trying to come to terms with what happened and you already have a post about it! 😀

    It’s really sad what is happening. Very very.

24. It broke my heart to read about the shootings.. specially Christina Grimmie. I burst out crying in the car park when I heard the news. It’s such a terrible loss. So many lives!! Orlando is bleeding. Very touching write.

25. Poignant, and moving. I do not know how else to put it. It’s sad how some people do not value life any more. Or rather, how those lives they take do not ‘fit’ with ‘their idea of life’. 🙁

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