The Feeling of Awesome!

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I am trying to put a finger at what exactly awesome feels like. These are the feelings I have loved and enjoyed at those particular moments. I think they come close to being awesome - a word that people now use a bit too much that it is scary to describe something genuinely awesome as awesome. Its almost become a cute!

The feeling of touch down when I was moving back home
The feeling I experienced walking the streets of Rome
The excitement of being a soon to become bride
Enjoying the Indian Ocean during low tide
Each time my daughter makes a funny face
Each moment when I revel in my silent silent space ( a rarity)
The mornings after a good night's sleep
Striking a bargain for a bauble that's steep!

This Morning

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I wake up when its still dark
There is silence all around me
Except for an occasional doggy bark
It is so still that I feel what it is to just be
I sometimes lie awake reveling in this quietness
Like a comforting blanket, familiar, I rely on
I know it will be there daily, it is endless
even if tomorrow you and I are forever gone
It waits, it stays, it turns up day after day
the same silent, beautiful, comforting, promising
to a hundred dreams from night she makes way
my eternal friend this early morning......

I love waking up early in the morning when it is still so dark..... I feel so alive then!

Working Progress

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Should I write because it's the only craft I know?
Should I write every time I feel high or low?
Should I take every single emerging thought
design it prettily and with a pen soon jot?
Should I be inspired by everything I see?
Should everything mean the world to me?
That more poems like these I write away?!
Oh much better and less contrived I pray!

...... after a long hiatus..... I hope to write more often..... Poetry gives me something that nothing else and no one else gives me.... an ability to make myself happy...... but does that mean I should always write?

Where inspiration I find
My words I somehow lose
I also sometimes lose my mind
A situation that never ceases to amuse
I tear up my numerous digital pages
And save many drafts
Poems in many stages
trial and errors of my craft!

there we go two in one. Ek ke saath ek mufth mufth mufth!