Editor’s Special Collection of Poems on ‘I Choose’
I Choose To Present The Beautiful Bouquet Of ‘Choice’
The words that matter from the editor
There are many choices that people can make in their lives. It is like a bouquet of flowers. Each one has a story to tell. Each one is different, varied, and colorful but interesting. What are the choices that people make?
Poetry is a spontaneous feeling put into words. What one thinks and does in life is reflected in the words of the poet.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ~W. H. Auden
This is a special collection of poems on “I Choose”.
1. Geetika Sethi -With Passion, I Choose
In the words of our talented poet Geetika Sethi,
With passion, I choose to discover life and live it!
Life must be lived with a passion to do something. It is not only her computer and phone that is charged but her mind too is charged with new ideas. She loves to live a life of happiness with her family. She lives in the present and wants to surround herself in the company of happy people.
Geetika writes most of her poems with passion. She has a knack for words and writes beautiful poetry on love. She has an inborn talent of getting a flow of words in a few minutes
In her words
“I surround myself with my happy people, those that are my very own essential tribe. My hubby, my kids, my family for all time, as these precious treasures are my gold mine.”
With passion, I choose to discover life and love it!
2. Bhavna Narula - I Choose
Bhavna is a talented poet and writes many humorous stories too. She is interactive and writes on various topics, is very versatile, and writes for many publications. She chooses a life where she wants to forget the past and think of the new beginnings in her life. In the present moment, she wants to learn to motivate herself and welcome the future with open arms.
In the words of Bhavna Narula
“I choose To welcome a bright future with open arms To be optimistic about what it holds for me To be confident about dealing with challenges To build a desirable future I have always dreamt of.”
3. Josh Balerite - I Choose
Josh Balerite Acol paints her words in poetry. She writes many styles of poetry. She writes the Refrain, Nonet, Triolet, Ars Poetic, Cinquain poetic form, and so many others. I am at a loss of words at the number of forms she knows. Her choice is to live a life of courage, love, and happiness. Her choice is reflected in her words:
“I choose to live a life full of love to forgive those who have hurt me to move on and have a brighter life of my own to dream of becoming the best in any way I can”.
4. Dr.Fatima Imam — Instinctive Preference
Dr.Fatima Imam is a historian turned poet. She writes soft poetic intense poems and has a variety of poems in her collection. She writes for many publications and is an equally good cook I found out from her poetry. Dr. Fatima Imam’s choice is optimism over pessimism, peace over conflict, and happiness over sadness.
“I choose optimism over pessimism to unnerve impending disasters. I choose hope over despair to unsettle the vicissitudes. I choose light over darkness to unveil life’s impermanence. I choose love over hate to uncover compassion’s magnitude”.
5. Lucy Dan — I Choose To Have Nuance
Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) is very interactive and sends prompts daily and we have to feed her hunger with food and various exciting prompts that she sends. She can write and edit at the speed of electricity. She is very quick. So when I challenged her with this prompt she complied with the beautiful poem.
She chooses to accept herself, engage and connect with people. She likes to balance it with solitude. She likes to work hard and achieve but also likes to enjoy and have time for leisure activities.
“I choose to engage and connect with my community, loved ones while making balance for precious moments of solitude.”
6. Patrick M Ohana — I Think I Choose
Patrick M. Ohana has written 1000 stories on Medium. We should celebrate this moment. He has contributed to the pool ‘I choose’. His style is very unconventional and different. He chooses between free will and not free will.
He has prepared a triangle and he thinks he has put himself in the hardest rectangle, which he calls “Hard Determinism” at the top left of the rectangle in his poem, in his words
“which holds that there is no free will, and that reality is determined,” He says we have free will but in reality, we do not have free will.
7. Melanie J-I choose
Melanie J. writes a one-line poem on happiness every day. It is self-explanatory and beautifully expressed. She writes Haikus, Tanka’s, and poems, and not a day goes without her sensitive expressions in her writings. She has beautifully expressed her choice.
Her purpose drives her life and her love is the essence of her soul. She chooses to smile, pursue her purpose and chooses to love
“I choose to smile brightly I choose to shine my light I choose to have unwavering hope I choose to know my worth I choose to pursue my purpose And finally, I choose to love”
8. Sahil Patel-I choose
Sahil Patel is a very new, young, and talented writer in Illumination. He has no interest in reading. He believes in experiential learning. He is a young student studying microbiology. He wrote a poem on I Choose and this poem was validated by Holly Kellums and Dr. Preeti Singh editors on Illumination. He had tagged me to write a poem on I choose. So I threw it open for poets to play along with this beautiful topic of ‘I Choose’
He chooses to stay alive rather than just survive. He also chooses to live the moments rather than only have memories. He also likes to fall in love with life:
“I choose to stay to define myself, Rather than accepting someone else’s definitions. I choose to stay to fall in love with my life, Rather than just living it.”
The last poem is Dr. Preeti Singh the editor of Illumination who opened up the topic of choice to everyone and is thankful to the poets who have participated and we have been able to get a collection of poems on “I Choose”.
9. Dr. Preeti Singh — I choose a Life of Happiness and Love
I got interested in writing poems when I joined Medium. It had always been inherent in me but I never expressed myself. I feel that poetry is an expression of one’s deep feelings and a beautiful way to express them.
My choice of life is happiness and beauty with nature, a life of love with people around me, freedom to express, and gratitude to the universe for its abundant gifts.
“I choose to live a life of love Caring and loving the people around me, Opening myself to the laws of abundance, Spreading love and happiness to everyone.”
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) celebrates World Poetry Day on 21st March every year to appreciate and support the poets and poetry around the world. This special collection of poems are dedicated to the day of celebration 2021.
I thank all our contributors for this special collection of poems on ‘I Choose’.
I am thankful to our chief editor Dr Mehmet Yildiz who gives us the editors of Illumination, Illumination-Curated, Illumination-Mirror, Illumination Curated, Technology Hits, and Synergy a free hand to focus on our writer's work and thank them for their contribution to our publications.
I also thank all the editors of the publications for their support Tree Langdon, Brian E. Wish, PhD, Dr Ron Pol, Dr Michael Heng, Dr John Rose, Paul Myers MBA, Karen Madej, Joe Luca, Dipti Pande, Kevin Buddaeus, Kate Maxwell, Arthur G. Hernandez, Bill Abbate, Michael Patanella, Aurora Eliam, CMP, René Junge, Geetika Sethi, Ahmed Jamal, Britni Pepper, Selma, Earnest Painter, Dew Langrial, B. A. Cumberlidge. Lanu Pitan, Agnes Laurens, EP McKnight, MEd, CR Mandler MAT, The Maverick Files, Sumera Rizwan, Liam Ireland, Neha Sandhir S, Desiree Driesenaar, Stuart Englander, Ntathu Allen, Thewriteyard, Haimish Mead, Maria Rattray, Cristo Lopez, PhD, Holly Kellums, Kristina Segarra, Yohanan Gregorius, The Dozen, Audrey Malone,janny’s heart, Sabana Grande, Jennifer Friebely, Zen Chan, Aamir Kamal 🚀🚀🚀, John Cunningham, [arlie] PEYTON, Terry L. Cooper