What Stayed After Success Left
Success was gone, and life came near.”
“After success, I found enough.”
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Poetic Words
A Lamp Instead of a Fire
Overall, this poem is about learning a gentler way to live. It honours ambition without worshipping it, values time without fearing it, and accepts the future without chasing it. It shows how maturity replaces fire with lamp-light, not less meaningful, but more humane.
It is a poem of arrival, not at a destination, but into oneself
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When the Wind Fell in Love with the Sea
The wind and sea continue their gentle song, sweet and lingering as if dipped in honey, carrying the essence of all we have been, are, and will become. It is a song of time, love that endures, hearts that beat in rhythm with the ocean’s timeless pulse.
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I Carried My Girlhood in a Small Bag
I left my childhood behind with a small bag in my hands, carrying love forward while my heart learned how to ache in two directions at once.
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Advice I Will Not Give My Children
I learned to love you without steering the wind.”
“I trust your questions more than my answers.
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She Remained Nine
Some goodbyes do not end. They grow silent. They grow careful. They walk beside us until walking itself becomes remembrance. Grief becomes part of movement, part of living, part of being.
In the Shade of Sweet Memories
“In the Shade of Sweet Memories” is ultimately a meditation on impermanence and tenderness. It reminds us that the past does not return, but it continues to shape us in silence. The mango tree shade may be far away in time, but it still casts a shadow across the heart,cool, bittersweet, and enduring.
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I Did Not Choose This Life, But I Loved It
Not bright enough to blind sorrow, but enough to walk by.
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Sing Like Birds
Sing Like Birds, written by Ignatious Antony, expresses his desire “I Want To Sing as The Birds Sing, Not Worrying About Who Hears Or What They Think. ”
O teach my heart this courage, pure and strong,
To live, like birds, and call that living a song.
The Flame That Waits
The poem “The Flame That Waits”, Written by Ignatious Antony, reminds us of something comforting:
You are not empty.
You are not broken.
You are simply waiting,
and the light knows when to come.
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