Amid All Cares Poem by Valsa George

Amid All Cares

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Pain and suffering, I often see around
Though now I don't have them to seriously confront
Yet a nameless unease weighs me down
At the sight of hundreds cruelly beaten down

How many, under eternal shackles tied
And in poverty, want and misery bide
With their hearts burdened and body strained
With nothing to hope for and all energy drained

Tossed by tempests and wild winds which roar
They float adrift far from safer shore
How many languish under violent strain
Unable to share or divulge their silent pain

Many are lost in the arid deserts of life
With their feet burning, wading through blistering strife
They fail to distinguish the oasis from the mirage
Often duped by life's well aligned montage!

Under a raging sun that spits fire overhead
Many are scorched and fall down dead
But the river of Time that winds its weary way
Doesn't have the elixir to drive the thirst away

While so many, without even a trace of cheer
Wilt and wither in dark despair
Some stay in pleasure domes of dazzling sheen
With their backs, turned to life's melancholy scene

I train my mind not to shrink into my own sequestered shell
When all around I see misery, hatred and violence swell
How I wish my heart were the fount of gushing love
And with the olive branch of peace, soar like a dove

Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Topic(s) of this poem: compassion
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Babatunde Aremu 07 August 2013

Thi use of is superlative! The. use of imageries is excellent. Your wish for peace to fly like a dove tallies with mine. Thanks

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Valsa George 07 August 2013

Thanks for the wonderful comment THOMAS! Your biblical explanation of it sounds so logical. Words flow so unlaboured from you pen! Though the divine plan you referred to has been working from the beginning of time, God has also said... 'Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the peace makers, for they shall be called the children of God' !

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Tirupathi Chandrupatla 07 August 2013

Suffering, pain, and misery of the multitudes is clearly brought out. Poet's observations and the call need to be answered. Nice poem.

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Chandra Thiagarajan 08 August 2013

This is a marvel of a poem indulging in the discomforts of many we see around us which make us so melancholic. The last stanza is the high light which rings so true and great. My salute to you, dear Valsa!

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Valerie Dohren 08 August 2013

A fine write Valsa - intense and passionate. I do not believe in a divine plan, life is different for everyone just because it is.

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Kumarmani Mahakul 27 November 2018

I train my mind not to shrink into my own sequestered shell When all around I see misery, hatred and violence swell How I wish my heart were the fount of gushing love And with the olive branch of peace, soar like a dove....so touching and impressive. A beautiful poem so nicely executed. Thanks for sharing.10

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Akhtar Jawad 04 March 2015

Many are lost in the arid deserts of life With their feet burning, wading through blistering strife They fail to distinguish the oasis from the mirage Often duped by life's well aligned montage! A great thoughtful poem......................10

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Deepak Kumar Pattanayak 19 August 2014

This seems to be the cruelty of fate when someone is blessed with abounding riches and someone beggarly wretches but to feel it and extend helping hand needs a brave heart......Valsa.....And I can say you have got that brave and compassionate heart and humanity at its best.....for which with great kind feelings you have ably created this great piece

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Kevin Patrick 13 August 2013

Your sense of humanity is evident within your language, you encapsulate every grey element of our turbulent world and the tension we find in our relation to it. You paint a portrait that reflects the reality of our problems and you explore ways of navigating the tumultuous landmine of life. This was an aspiring read you show a message of universal truth.

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Dinesan Madathil 11 August 2013

Excellent out pour of emotions and concerns that amounts to the demonstration of a poet`s solid stand taken for the cause of the downtrodden and the have nots. The poem will have its replicas in this world of no equations as poets like me too have got heavy hearts when we read from the pages of life our brethren are imposed with. But good news for all of us is here. There is no need to worry further Madam Valsa... The next ice age is nearing the earth within a few thousand years and in the cyclical ice age that comes once in every 1,00000 years approximately the next phase may evolve out a life system that permits more equations among all microcosms which may eventually lead to no tears, no sighs and no poems over the inferior beings. This is pure science I am speaking of bereft of fanatic concepts and intolerance towards the fictions often churned out by the beleaguered minds of poets like us in the foundry of human love and her cousins.

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