A layer so stern and obdurate
Unfurls and suffuse
Caging your being
Blocking your vision
Pounding heart wants to breathe
For nobody knows what lies beneath
Oh beloved to persevere, resuscitate and burgeon
Shed the exoskeleton
For underneath is trapped your radiance
Moult like a cicada
Sloughing off your integumentary shell
And let Waft slowly your ambrosial smell
Jealously, hatred, ego
Selfishness, arrogance and what not
Shields you from life’s lives
Activate your peptide-mediated signaling cascade
Rise to leave behind the exuviae
Create and live a new movie
Surely, your revived cuticle will appear timid
But constant adherence and patience
Shall yield a new Instar
To again harden but this time to let the gentle fresh air flow in
Timely ecdysis is the key to keep you afloat
No one can ever stop your happy sailing boat.
Β© Samreen Asad 2021
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Beautiful interplay of words …and lovely expression…Yes, no one can stop your happiness boat from sailing free..
Stay blessed always.
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Thank you so much Jas for your lovely words of appreciation, means so much. π You too stay blessed, thank you againππΉπΊπΌ
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“Ecdysis” Indeed Shed The Shell
As Locusts Do 17 Years in Hibernation
Becoming A Fresh New
Softer Artful Creation
Strangely Enough Yes
Same For me From
1996 Thru 2013
17 Years Yes First
Surrendering Then
So Many Freedoms
of Soul WorKinG For
A Money God in Never
Ending Chronic to Acute
Stress Last Two Years Fight
or Flight of 11 Years Total Then
Falling Down For 6 Years 17 Years
Emerging With EYes of A Five Year
Old Child in Creativity of Imagination’s
Reborn
Child
Change
Freeing Butterfly
Wings With Child
EyeS AGAiN Just
So Free Dear FRienD Samreen
What if We Teach Children To Continue
To Paint Clouds With Colors Of Imagination
Bringing Sunshine Within Filling Feeling Year Round
SenSinG OverFlowing Fountain Always Emptying Colors
Unto Souls Of Others Same Every Age of Soul Art Free
So Much Less Desire To Consume Nature Out of Balance
For It’s True All i FeLT iS Old Even At Age 21 When Clouds
So Grey Refused Any Hue of Happiness At School All About
Achieving THE GOAL
NEVER ABOUT
FREEiNG
WiNGS OF
BUTTERFLY
NOW SHeLLiNG
THE LoCusT Soul Freshly
Winging FRiEnDS With Gravity
Loving Every New Color FLiGHT Brings
Leaving With Others to Try New Wings on True..:)
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Such a lovely beautiful message as always Fred with so much insights. We should teach children and ourselves as well to be happy and shed whatever grab comes in with time and become better than before. Thank you soo much for your kind words always and reading my work. Means so much truly.
Take care, stay blessed!! πππΌπΊ
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SMiLes Dear
Samreen Whole
Compete Enough
To Give
Inhaling
Peace Exhaling
Love Root Vine
SaMe LoVE ALL
With SMiles
Dear
FRiEnD
SamreenπβΊοΈππ
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I like it, inhaling peace and exhaling love, wowππΉ Smiles, dear Fredπ»πΌπ
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Hehe Thanks
Dear Samreen
Typo on
Compete
Meant
CompleteππβΊοΈ
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Haha, I got that ππ»
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The Muslim Name
Samreen in Arabic
Means βHelperβ
i Shall
Add Another
Middle Name
Of
Human KindestβΊοΈ
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Aww that’s so sweet of you, yes Samreen means Helpful, fruitful, beneficial π I don’t know though how fruitful I am π
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SMiles Dear Samreen
Your Poetry π Fruitful
Indeed With SMilesπ
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You are tooo kind Fred, respect you so muchππΊπΊπ
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SMiles Dear
Samreen
Important
To Remind
Kindness
Breathes
Wherever
We Find
Kindness
Dear FRiEnD
Verily A Pandemic
Of Kindness Healing
Souls
We All BReaTHE
Living Trees Roots
Vines Divine
Leaves
KinD π π
For Real NoWππβΊοΈ
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Thanks Samreen
SMiLes Missed
Your Poetry
On
Saturday
With SMiles
Again my FRiEnDβΊοΈ
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Oh so humbled by your kindness Fred, thank you so much!! Actually, son has started going to school, so yeah little difficult to write. π
Hope you are doing great dear.
Stay blessed with Smiles ππ
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SMiLes Dear Samreen
Kindness to Give
Is The Brightness
Of All The Stars
To Feel ALWaYS
Enough Dear FRiEnD
SMiles Hope All Of
You Stay Safe Well
And Fully Loved
This New
School
Year my FRiEnDβΊοΈπ€π
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Thank you so much my kind friend with smiles ππ Hope you always keep shining and smiling πππ
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WHere A SMile
Breathes God
Sees Dear Samreenπ
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Indeed dearπππ¦ππΊ
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Thank you soo much Aarzuβ€οΈπ€β€οΈ Hope you are doing well, long time didn’t read your work, was away for a while. Will visit soon.
Stay blessed dear, take careπ€πΉπΉπ€
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Always welcome dear π€
I’m good Alhamdulillah
Sure dear π π€
You too take care of yourself π
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Oh habeebity!! I loved coming upon this poem..I have been waiting to read you.. What a perfectly beautiful proclamation on shedding the old and allowing the new to push through. I love this word (it was new for me “ecdysis” )and it the perfect word,when it comes to our growth as human beings
and as fellow souls on this earth. “Create and live a new movie” Oh habeebity, this is the secret…we can refashion ourselves, Alhamdulillah, to be more positive, happy, compassionate, creative…We have this power. To slough off the old and begin brand new ( like in Hajj) is a gift for us all. no matter what we believe,. This poem felt very inspired UM Anzar and your message came through loud and clear.. Just beautifully done my dear friend….
Jazakallah habeebityπβ€οΈπ€π
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Habeebity, so happy to see your comment. β€οΈ I am glad you liked the poem and I always tell you, you summarize my words sooo well. Indeed, hajj is such a gift for us. Thank you sooo much for your love and kindness always UmJulian, lots of love and hugs β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈπ€π€π€π€
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Beautiful picture of the lady coverd with one of her eyes. Meaning of acdysis is the removing the layers and clear the part. In life also if you r covered by layers of greed..hatred..jealousy and many more then you will loose your peace and happiness. Nice poem. Liked it. β€ππ
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Thank you sooo much for your lovely words and your visit. Means so much really. Indeed, we tend to lose our peace. πβ€οΈπ€
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I love this poem, dear Samreen. Full of love, hope, longing, and transformation. Shed away, indeed. Just beautiful. π¦π€β€οΈπΉβ¨π
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Oh thank you soo much Jeff for your kind words, I am so humbled always seeing your beautiful comment. Take care, stay blessed πΉπ€ππ¦πΊπ»
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You’re most welcome, dear Samreen. Is always my pleasure. I love reading your beautiful work. π€ππΉβ¨π¦β€
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Am so grateful Jeff, thank you againππΊπ¦βοΈπ»π
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Yaaaayyy sooo happy you are back with your amazing poem that has been longing to be expressed so brilliantly my friend.
Your words were so captivating and meaningful.
Brilliant my friend.
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love the whole poem and these lines said it all:
“Pounding heart wants to breathe
For nobody knows what lies beneath
Oh beloved to persevere, resuscitate and burgeon
Shed the exoskeleton
For underneath is trapped your radiance
Moult like a cicada
Sloughing off your integumentary shell
And let Waft slowly your ambrosial smell”
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Yayyyπ Yeah dear am back, don’t know though how much will I take to post another blog post π bit it was quite a long time so I did post this Saturday. Sooo happy to see you here, as always I am, you know. Thank you sooo much for your kind appreciation, so humbled and glad by your beautiful words.
Take care dear, have a lovely week ahead, hope your preparations are going full swing and you got your tubπ
Love and hugs dearβ€οΈβ€οΈπ€π€π€πΊπ»
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I’m soooo glad and you take it whatever speed you need to take it Samreen. It’s about content and quality not quantity and when you deliver such amazing pieces like you turn out, that’s what counts the most!!!!! loved it and have a great week as well!!!! ππβ€οΈππ·
lots of love and hugsβ£οΈβ£οΈβ£οΈ Tubs galoreπ
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Aww that’s soooo sweet and kind of you to say that dearβ€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈ Thank you dear so muchπ€π€π€πππ I hope you find the best of them all for youππππ
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You’re so welcome my friend!πππ
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This was a brilliant post, Samreen. Indeed, the resilient sailing boat will never be stopped, no matter what. I interpret this poem as a tribute to every woman and every person who works hard. You have put it very well. The picture was so apt too:)
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You are always sooo kind and sweet to praise my work. Truly humbled π€ Thank you sooo much for your beautiful words dear. I truly am honored. Take care, have a lovely week ahead β€οΈπ
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Super impressive poem, it resonates deeply Samreen! You sound like an entomologist but the idea of shedding those crusty destructive layers to allow the good within to shine out … great analogy π
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Thank you sooo much dear for your appreciation, am humbled truly!! Well, you got it right dear, I did my masters in Entomology π
Thank you again dear for your support, stay blessed, take careβ€οΈπ€π€β€οΈ
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lol I thought as much, you had the details down to a fine art π
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What a lovely post, Samreen.
Gwen.
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Hi Samreen, Hope you are well. Every Saturday night I still look for updates from your blog. Hope everything is fine with you.
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Hi dear, that’s soo kind of you, thank you so muchπ Everything is fine, son has started going to school, so just busy with him, want to write but just not getting the time. Hope you all are good too. π
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Wow. That is good. You’d get some rest at last :)) Yep, everything fine here, but home learning due to the increase in cases.
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Yes, some alone time but still got more busy, I guess a mother can never be freeπ Oh, hope this Covid thing would go soon. Take care dear, stay blessed!!
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He needs to go to primary school. Then you might get more hours: of ‘me time’, Take care, Samreen:)
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Yesπ You too take care dear.
Happy Diwali to you and all you loveβ¨ππ
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Thank you:) Have a lovely weekend.
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Beautiful art and writing π
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