# Fight your Battle #

Face those fears
Kill those demons
You are better than
What you think you are..

Pull yourself up
Try to find a faith
Only you can find and push 
Yourselves to a limit..

Dont depend on an angel
Dont wait for a miracle
Nothing ever happens to
Someone with a common man fate..

Find your cause
Change your path
There is only so much you can
Achieve going on this way!

It may be small
But you have your own destiny
A reason you’re still breathing
A reason you don’t know..

Stop making excuses
Stop finding faults in others
Peep inside and see what you got
And what you can make out of it..

Unless you fight the evil
You’ll be thriving on its venom
But again and again you got to try
Don’t give up and never cry!

A – Z poetry : “S”

One alphabet as a muse at a time. Here is “S”

An open invitation for poets to attempt to write with Y and Z as muses.
Leave a comment in case you’re interested, I’ll contact you – don’t post the poem in the comments 

Stop trading likes
Respect
Return the like
Not from the reader section
Be a gentleman
Spare women this rule
Errands and salon take away quite sometime

Go to the fellow blogger’s page and like
Now that you’re on the page and you’ve
liked
Read
Grow wise

Written by Arjun Bagga. You can see his blog here. A man with a unique form and craft of writing poetry. A talented photographer. Must check out his blog!!

A – Z poetry : “P” (another entry)

Phenomenal Paralympics

Paragons of courage,

Phenomenal was the stage,

Paralympics was the occasion,

Proud was every nation.

Pain had no place,

Pleasure on each face,

Participants with such high spirits,

Pleased audiences with full credits.

Performances like heroes,

Perception of the world was transformed,

Practicing sport like never before,

Praiseful waves stormed.

Paralympics instilled in every human being,

Prevailed only one feeling,

Pointless is the disability,

Precious is their ability to create

Provided with even such fate.

Pistorius is one such person,

Privileged I am to mention,

Persuaded his desire to be the best,

Placed was he above the rest.

Provided such immense inspiration,

Paradigm of champions at heart,

Priceless is their endless contribution.

This is a guest post by Khimya Khetarpal. See her blog here. A promising new blogger around WP, who wants to make this world a better place.

100th post

When I was told to start a blog in 2011, I had completely ignored that piece of advice, and my parents would agree I should have. As a favor and kick-start, a friend started my blog and published my then-most-recent poem as my first blog post:

https://sakshivashist.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/is-rishte-ko-kya-naam-doon/

I saw the blog, I saw the likes but nothing stirred inside me to go forward with it or write and publish more. Then a second poem was put up to inspire me.

https://sakshivashist.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/regrets/

I thought about it, nothing clicked. There was no time or will to sit and write a blog. And as a final effort to push me, this was published :

https://sakshivashist.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/shades-of-emotions-1/

After these 3 initial kicks for inspiration and motivation, there was a radio silence for almost an year (nine months to be precise). Later in 2012 – after my first post was published, I decided, Okay WTH let me have a look at how this WP works.

I looked. I liked. I published.

https://sakshivashist.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/i-n-s-p-i-r-e-d/

Unluckily no one pressed a “LIKE” on this. Ever.

Same thing happened with my next post :

https://sakshivashist.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/un-silsilon-ko/

No like. No views.

I was wondering was was going wrong. I started looking around at blogs of others. Left a few comments on the poems which I liked. Then the next poem, which was close to my heart, finally got some attention.

https://sakshivashist.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/final-departure/

I decided to buck up (coincidentally that was my next post) and yes, I got one more like and follow from last time. I got 4 likes. 😀

https://sakshivashist.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/buck-up/

For next 9 posts…I had 1-2-3 likes. And then the tenth one broke all records and was liked by 7 people!!

https://sakshivashist.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/a-call-from-conscience/

My first double digit likes came from a post which I din’t expect from – 30 bloggers :

https://sakshivashist.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/come-back-home/

Next few posts again had a dry spell. hardly more than 5-6 people stumbled upon my blog.

But after https://sakshivashist.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/engulfed/  – I never saw a post with a single digit like!

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Even now these poems are the only ones which remain with minimum clicks and hits :

– buck up ! –
a heart not-so-strong
~ no more love ~
a victory story
*tick-tock*
It goes on-n-on…

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Since the blog began it has been viewed by 14000 people from the following countries :

1. United States
2. India
3. United Kingdom
4. Canada
5. Australia
6. Pakistan
7. Philippines
8. United Arab Emirates
9. Singapore
10. Qatar
11. Belgium
12. Netherlands
13. Germany
14. Indonesia
15. Malaysia
16. Kenya
17. South Africa
18. Egypt
19. Italy
20. France
21. New Zealand
22. Romania
23. Sweden
24. Thailand
25. Mexico
26. Brazil
27. Saudi Arabia
28. Nepal
29. Nigeria
30. Ireland
31. Algeria
32. Spain
33. Kuwait
34. Switzerland
35. Bangladesh
36. Morocco
37. Norway
38. Russian Federation
39. Poland
40. Denmark
41. Greece
42. Finland
43. Turkey
44. Viet Nam
45. Austria
46. Ukraine
47. Serbia
48. Sri Lanka
49. Republic of Korea
50. Hong Kong
51. Mauritius
52. Slovenia
53. Portugal
54. Lebanon
55. Czech Republic
56. Taiwan
57. Jordan
58. Albania
59. Slovakia
60. Costa Rica
61. Israel
62. Japan
63. Zimbabwe
64. Iraq
65. Argentina
66. Jamaica
67. Tunisia
68. Maldives
69. Hungary
70. Palestinian Territory, Occupied
71. Oman
72. Bulgaria
73. Libya
74. Lithuania
75. Estonia
76. Colombia
77. Armenia
78. Latvia
79. Puerto Rico
80. Azerbaijan
81. Bahrain
82. Ghana
83. Georgia
84. Croatia
85. Yemen
86. Trinidad and Tobago
87. Malta
88. Chile
89. Mongolia
90. Venezuela
91. Luxembourg
92. Guatemala
93. Grenada
94. Sudan
95. Bahamas
96. Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic
97. Syrian Arab Republic
98. Lesotho
99. Bhutan
100. Moldova
101. Guam
102. Isle of Man
103. Bosnia and Herzegovina
104. Bolivia
105. Northern Mariana Islands
106. Micronesia
107. Panama
108. Myanmar
109. British Virgin Islands
110. Rwanda
111. Kazakhstan
112. Ecuador
113. Uganda
114. Vanuatu
115. Cambodia
116. China
117. Nicaragua
118. Suriname
119. Guyana
120. Belarus

As of 2011, there are 195 independent sovereign states in the world, about 60 dependent areas, and five disputed territories – as listed by UN.

Which only means I have Miles to go before I sleep.

Miles to go before I sleep.

A – Z poetry : “K”

One alphabet as a muse at a time. Here is “K”

An open invitation to poets : attempt to write with N, V, X and Z as muses.
Leave a comment in case you’re interested, I’ll contact you – don’t post the poem in the comments 😉

King Kong

Was a killer

Kubla Khan

A King.

 

Kind of cruel of Ken 

– isn’t it? – 

To make the King the Killer

And the Killer the King.

This is a guest post by an avid blogger ‘Aka Teraka’.

“The work of Aka Teraka is an eclectic mix of music, poetry and novellas something to offer new audiences.” – The African Courier.

See his blog here

A – Z poetry : “J”

One alphabet as a muse at a time. Here is “J”

An open invitation for poets to attempt to write with N, O, Q, V, X and Z as muses.
Leave a comment in case you’re interested, I’ll contact you – don’t post the poem in the comments 😉

Jive along the rhythm of life
Just forget the daily strife
Journey begins when you live
Joyous face without a stiff
Jiggling every bit of your being
Jumping around like no one seeing
Jazzing to the lifelike tunes
Joining everyone for communes
Jealous from none who have more
Jubilant enough to explore
Jade or Jack doesn’t matter
Just enough to fill the platter
Judging none for id or ego
Jilting none like incognito
Joking or kidding all in fun
Justice meant for everyone

This is a guest post by Shilpi Rajput. See her blog here. She is a teacher by profession and a start up partner with her fiance. Do check out her blog!!!

A – Z poetry : “D”

One alphabet as a muse at a time. Here is “D”

# Dare to Dream

Dig out of your bed

Drape in a silk kaftans

Drab a bit of make up

Do this to yourself..

 

Dip a tea bag in hot water

Delve in some food

Disperse positive energy around

Do step out..

 

Defeat your inner fears

Disallow that low self esteem

Delineate your plans

Dare to dream!