How poignant and eloquent poetry, Trisha! Chasing after fleeting, illusory things in life all the while rejecting that which is real and valuable. We do this, don't we? Thank you for this moving reminder.

dearest noreen, this was my first poem, just altered it a little. i am happy that you liked it. Wish you love, peace and happiness. Trisha

dearest ed, i humbly deny, i am not a butterfly, :) :) if i was standing among them then its some thing else, but i am not a butterfly. i am a human being. Wish you love, peace and happiness. Trisha

dearest gayle, That was exactly what i was thinking when i was writing this poem, truly happy that you liked it, because first creation always holds special weakness. :) Wish you love, peace and happiness. Trisha

dearest ed, I am not rejecting you, you are rejecting yourself. :) Wish you love, peace and happiness. Trisha

dearest carol, Thanks. I am really happy to see you, have been missing you a lot. Wish you love, peace and happiness. Trisha

dear noor, thanks, i will send you the invitation and while sending will write you the steps so you can add others. Wish you love, peace and happiness. Trisha

dearest elaine, ed is an extremely witty person.. i have not met any one like him yet. :) i am really happy to know that my heartfelt words touch your heart, that only promises a long lasting friendship. Wish you love, peace and happiness. Trisha

dearest elaine, i have contributed to msn's readers archive for two years (under my own name and three pseudos .. stories and articles), at that time i was fighting a war to let a person go (i was really obsessed with him) and this poem formed by itself. i wrote another three and was too shy to share. then i shared it with a friend of mine and he liked them so much that i posted them to msn, and got a huge foot fall and every body complimented, that friend (rohit) and another friend (ajay) made me write more poems. now i have you all and three steady friends outside intent who are working as wind beneath my poetry wings. my inspirations inevitably come from my heart, sometimes from stories i have read and sometimes from news i have read, and my own life. very frankly they come automatically and my friends tease me at their number (which i am too shy to admit). i have very few other duties as i am not involved in career, so i am free from frictions of outside world too, may be that is why they come so easily and so many in numbers. apart from that i have read too many books so i can play with words easily. i listen to music too, a lot more than most people and there is a wide variety.. english, bengali, hindi, instrumental even spanish, latin whatever catches my ear. Wish you love, peace and happiness. Trisha

Dearest elaine, whenever you have an idea, write it down, and later play with it. i sometimes write a poem, and when i next time see it (often, not always) completely change it.. completely.. the inner meaning remains the same, every thing else changes. i always keep a writing pad beside me, whenever something starts to swim in my head i write it down, later work on it. there is nothing odd in it, tagore used to sometimes get up in the middle of night to write down the poetry which came to him in his dreams (i have reached the phase, poems come to me right when i am going to bed or sleeping). i have not yet started to get up though :) :) the more you get involved in creativity you will see that ideas will come to you at the oddest times, if we jot down few lines the remaining will come to our mind when we sit down with them calmly. my seclusion is also by choice, because i dont talk much (was never talkative), and all my hobbies need solitary time.. music, reading, writing.. my friendship with my brother was like this .. even now when we chat we chat a lot. Wish you love, peace and happiness. Trisha

dearest ed, they are blessed a thousand times by God, shattering peace is a child's play, creating peace is an angel's job. :) :) i am becoming your fan.... loving salutes emperor of wittiness. Wish you love, peace and happiness. Trisha

Trisha I love you, this poem is simply divine. You are an inspiration. I am handing you a golden pen that writes with light of gold and creates magnificent works with deftness and skill of an angel. You are the angel Trisha, carrying the pen that draws hearts into its soft folds. I love this poem so much, it is beautiful, simple and a lesson hidden behind its composure that many would do to learn at a young age. Thank you for sharing this with us.

dearest elaine, the greatest joy for anyone is if her work helps someone else in any way. that is true meaning of creation. i learnt it from tagore and i passed it to you, because these things are so fine that they will vanish under more heavy things like chorelist... exactly, it needs likeminded people to create and relish the creation, i too am truly blessed with loving affection of people like you. who take some time out and read these and leave their comments. spending some fun time with a close knit group is great fun, i always did that. it revives you so very much. wishing you lots and lots of joy and fun. i think its not my poem, its the mutual affection which we all share at intent creates these waves of affection time to time. Wish you love, peace and happiness. Trisha

dearest deb, wisdom is one thing i am not very sure i possess, i am quite confident about possessing love/affection/compassion and that is what i am sharing with you all, and am blessed by the millionfolds in which it is returned. its a fabulous quote. i somehow almost 100% agree with that. will check on the song. thanks for sharing. Wish you love, peace and happiness. Trisha

Too true, eloquently put Trisha!