Gayathri Seetharam Poems

Inspired by Charles Dickens in Great Expectations
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
After a fair bit of research,
I chose this beautiful piece of writing by the man,
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A short discussion and some possible slogans
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
I addressed this remark to an official source about a younger lady in her early thirties
And that is if she was a pleasant distraction or a lasting passion
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From an essay in The New Yorker
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
The New Yorker and The Walrus have a bad habit of arriving at our doorstep whenever it pleases them. I am in the middle of a nail biter, William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, not to mention technical and textile projects. Of course, these magazines interrupt my progress in the other areas.
But to commend the magazine (April 13th,2020) , it has a really nice pedantic piece which caught my eye because the God of English literature, Shakespeare, has been attributed with some phrases which are used in today's world. Primary among these is the apt phrase, wild goose chase.
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Of Canadian and British humour
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
I have sworn off the male sex
For they are not forthcoming
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Of robotics and me
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
In my mid-thirties, on Sauble Beach during a family outing,
I had heard the song, Sex on the Beach,
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Inspired by William Shakespeare
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
I made a bit of progress with reading The Merchant of Venice
And came to the portion where Bassanio had to choose from
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Of inescapable realities
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
I heard somebody refer to me as a classy lady through a source
And my immediate reaction was to say that the gentleman had to remind me
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Of the COVID-19 virus pandemic
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
I read a beautiful essay by Tim Cook in The Globe and Mail
About us Canadians whose fight is the battle against the corona virus pandemic
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LIFE
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
I was walking down the road
With my handbag in my hand
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Winter
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
Winter is like ice cream
Cold and nice
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