For the love of Poetry
Best Of The Best From My Beating Heart
Reflections from my life through poetry.
I took to writing poetry in Oct 1981, when I was working as the night manager of a restaurant called the Golden Bear in Chicago.
After the late night bar rush and before early morning stragglers that arrived before sunrise, I usually had a couple of hours of free time.
I was not having the best times of my life. One night, I grabbed a yellow notepad and started scribbling. I wrote six stanzas of free form poetry.
Over the years, I have played with the words and edited some, but the essence remains of what I felt that night.
In the ensuing years, as my energies transmuted from the material to the spiritual, and I started thinking about settling down, I kept writing just to express my feeling. Sometimes expressing my longings for meaning in life, and other times, the object of my infatuation.
I received inspiration to write this next one as my plane approached the Albuquerque airport and I looked out the window and saw the clouds and their shadows on the mountains below. It has remained, more or less, untouched and as I wrote it.
Recently, I reconnected with an old flame from my teen years. We are both set in our own lives. One day, I walked out of a restaurant and saw the sun setting in the distance, my mind started wandering, and wrote down these words.
I know many of my writer friends on Medium have dabbled in poetry. What inspires you? How do you come up with your poems? I would love to know. Holly Jahangiri, Bob Jasper, Desiree Driesenaar, Kevin Buddaeus, Terry Mansfield, Sherry McGuinn, Sumera Rizwan, Dipti Pande, and then there are those who don’t dabble in it, they are pros at it. Priyanka Srivastava, Gurpreet Dhariwal, Salam Khan, Simran Kankas, Diana C.
As always, thank you for reading and responding.
More about me:
Rasheed Hooda is a published author and a regular contributor to ILLUMINATION, a writers’ community on Medium where writers support each other.
He is a self-proclaimed weirdo who lives a Freedom Lifestyle and writes about related topics — Travel (a top writer), Personal Growth, Freedom, and entrepreneurship. (Get the Newsletter)
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