Monthly Archives: August 2015

Aug20

strife

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food to eat

some quality sleep

a family to love

nothing more deep

pure laughter

and simple needs

make up my life

i have no greed

yet i lie in bed

with no sleep

my parents are long gone

i want to weep

but then i pick up the pieces

of my broken life

and muster the courage

to continue this strife

Aug19

SLEEP….Tokubetsudesu #56 Choka (or Nagauta)

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the night descends

making my mind fearful

of what lies ahead

the myriad thoughts about life

in my head

making sleep more elusive

and the insomniac is ready to face the world

(envoy or hanka)

and the long day ahead

makes me daydream about sleep

ironical it is

to wait for the night to descend

circle of life at its best

Aug18

Scary Fashion

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I started out with this blog with the aim of writing about fashion, especially fashion for women above 40. But p[poetry took an upper hand and started writing haiku. So, what has brought me back to writing about fashion?

It was when I opened a fashion magazine today and I literally got scared and flabbergasted at the thin gaunt faces staring out at me from the glossy covers. Is that what fashion is about/ Tall, thin, scraggly women are being treated as clothes hangers. In fact they don’t look like women anymore. They are like objects…used to showcase outrageous clothes that are being churned out by designers.

Not even make up can save them.

They are anorexic.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

I wish I could change this mindset.