Gayathri Seetharam Poems

HOPE FOR AN EVEN BETTER TOMORROW
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
Emily Dickinson has said,
Hope is like a bird
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A poem in Sanskrit poetry format
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
The Encyclopaedia Brittanica website said that Sanskrit poetry consists of metaphor, simili and hyperboles. The lines are in different metric lengths.
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Here's you, my dear departed father
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
Last night, my grieving husband informed me that my mother-in-law
Had died after a 4 year battle with an Alzheimer's like dementia
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My favourite things
(Based on the song from the movie, Sound of Music)
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
Mountains with glaciers
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AN ADDITIONAL POEM (written in 2015)
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
Justin Trudeau has been sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada on Nov 4th,2015
Fittingly, since it is Remembrance Day on the 11th of Nov, he wore a poppy in his coat lapel to commemorate the early literal bed-time of soldiers
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A Ballad on Beverley McLachlin, the ex-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
According to Wikipedia, a ballad consists of 13 lines and is a narrative which can be sung. It has an ABABBCBC form consisting of rhymed verses or couplets, each of 14 syllables. I managed to get all of it but could not keep up the required number of syllables. But in my defence, the poet whose work has been used as an example in Wikipedia had only 10 syllables.
I would also like to say that on World Freedom of Press Day, which is today, I referred to a feature in The Globe and Mail published on Jan 13th,2018 by Fred Lum.
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Black and white
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
The USA is fighting for its civil rights
Which have been violated time and time again
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An ode to my husband
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
Sweetheart, I pray we shall not part
Until the dawn has turned to dusk in our lives
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Aung San Sui Kyi, the Burmese political activist turned leader
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
Beymorlin Sonnet (Every Sonnet)
The defining features of the Beymorlin Sonnet are:
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Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada II
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
Justin Trudeau is like a political Shakespeare
Deemed worthy of fame by the likes of me
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