First Poem

Kaleidoscope A gentle turn changing colors, changing pattern greet you live, fill your transfixed eyes you can’t resist looking even if you may try. A gentle move changing feelings, changing groove enchant you within, entice your heart you can’t stop trying even in a new start. A gentle twist changing concerns, changing wish-list enrich relationships close, please others you don’t lose trying even if the mind dithers. A gentle shake changing vision, changing track transform you, fulfill your empty life you can’t stop doing even in times of strife. A gentle tap changing design, changing drape morph the mind, build colored hope you can’t desist looking in the kaleidoscope. I have not started writing poems with Poetry Soup. My poetic journey began about ten years ago and on the way I published three books of poems. My first poem on Poetry Soup was Kaleidoscope posted on July 7, 2017 which was a POTD. This excited me beyond measure. I like the poem because our life is like a kaleidoscope with everything changing in response to whatever we do in the impermanent world. Over time I have been enriched as a poet by interacting with some very fine poets on PS and receiving their encouraging comments. I look forward to growing as a poet of substance by being associated with PS and being recognized through the Poetry Contests which I find very innovative, competitive and challenging. My thought The nature so beautiful The world so enchanting My poems flow from heart full Of old songs of life pulsating. Everything seems to collapse now Like fragile designs in kaleidoscope As ordained winds of change blow I write poems of perennial hope. The Poetry Soup gives me a scope To take my say to sensitive people The travails of life we painfully grope The hope of new sun on poetic ripple. August 31, 2017.