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POETIC HEARTBEATS:
POETESS SUNAYNA PAL WRITES,
I LET IT FLY AWAY
POETESS SUNAYNA PAL WRITES,
I LET IT FLY AWAY
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I had a beautiful white balloon once
many others before it, had I held
but never had I anything so perfect in my life.
It was precisely what I had wanted from long
For the first time, I could decorate is as I liked
It was bigger than what I had hoped for and I liked it that way.
It filled my life with joy exactly as it should have
many others before it, had I held
but never had I anything so perfect in my life.
It was precisely what I had wanted from long
For the first time, I could decorate is as I liked
It was bigger than what I had hoped for and I liked it that way.
It filled my life with joy exactly as it should have
but such things seldom last till the end of time
People would come from far to see it.
I would show it off with glee
It was a lovely thing to have
But I let it fly away.
People would come from far to see it.
I would show it off with glee
It was a lovely thing to have
But I let it fly away.
They had told me that the wind was dangerous.
They had warned me of its ugliness
A part of me didn’t want to believe them
An element in me wanted to know what it would be
They had warned me of its ugliness
A part of me didn’t want to believe them
An element in me wanted to know what it would be
to have my hands free
I wasn’t tired of holding my balloon,
All I wanted was to know about the other side
Didn’t pay much attention to the cautions and
I let my balloon fly away.
I let my balloon fly away.
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BY
POETESS SUNAYNA PAL
COPYRIGHT TO POETESS SUNAYNA PAL
POETESS SUNAYNA PAL
COPYRIGHT TO POETESS SUNAYNA PAL
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NOTE:
The above poem has been reserved for a translation to Malayalam by
WILLIAMSJI MAVELI
COURTESY & COPYRIGHT TO POETESS SUNAYNA PAL
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COURTESY & COPYRIGHT TO POETESS SUNAYNA PAL
About the Poetess:
Sunayna Pal, born and brought up in Mumbai and moved to
USA after marriage. She has PG degrees from XLRI and Annamalai
University and worked in the Corporate World for five odd years. She
quit it in 2009 and embarked on her heart’s pursuits. She started “Art
with Sunayna” (artwithsunayna.wordpress.com) to teach and sell art for
NGOs. She is also a certified handwriting analyst (sos4graphology.com)
who helps everyone to understand themselves better by using a mix of
graph therapy, healing and affirmations. In midst of all this and being a
home maker, gardener and photographer, she also finds the time to write
and actually loves to write from her daily life experiences. Sunayna
was the Mumbai reporter for Evergreen Magazine. Many of her articles
have been published in TOI, New woman, Women’s era and she is a proud
contributor at many other e-magazines and sites. Many of her short
stories and poems are published in anthologies like “Mighty Thoughts,”
“The second Life,” “Memoirs of Love,” “Rhymes and Rhythm,” “Voice of
Little Hearts,” and few are published in international anthologies like
“Nepal – An awakening”, The collaborative’s Omnibus and Soaring High. In
her little spare time, she also maintains a blog at
mannkiwindow.wordpress.com and can be contacted at sunayna.pal@gmail.com
She is currently writing a novel of 51 stories of people who are of
South Asian origin and have an experience to share of USA.