It’s April of 2022 and Day 26 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Wordy Wonders.” I am selecting words that have deeper and graceful meanings, from across the globe and an eight-line poem along.
Day 26 – Zephyr
Origin: Old English
Meaning: a gentle breeze.
Poem
Stood over the gates,
Held the chains,
Climbed the rocks,
Slid the roughs,
And then,
In love,
Zephyr,
Disappeared me away.
Every journey, tough or not, must accompany love.
Word Pronunciation: ZEH-fuh
It’s April of 2022 and Day 25 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Wordy Wonders.” I am selecting words that have deeper and graceful meanings, from across the globe and an eight-line poem along.
Day 25 – Yoton-yo
Origin: Finnish
Meaning: the midnight sun – a night-less night
Poem
Why is that,
The more we are,
The more I long,
Days and nights,
All seem glued,
To us and within,
I of-course love,
The yoton-yo.
The night-less nights and lightless days, does not matter when there is a right together.
Word Pronunciation: Yoton-yo
It’s April of 2022 and Day 24 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Wordy Wonders.” I am selecting words that have deeper and graceful meanings, from across the globe and an eight-line poem along
Day 24 – Xyresic
Origin: English
Meaning: sharp as a razor.
Poem
A clumsy knot,
Determined,
Entered a contest,
Of untie-the-knot.
The clumsy knot,
Melted to ashes
Xyresic, was,
The god of poems.
We never know what is more powerful than the other until we see it in a real battle. A poem can melt the hard-hearted.
Word Pronunciation: Zy-ress-ik
It’s April of 2022 and Day 23 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Wordy Wonders.” I am selecting words that have deeper and graceful meanings, from across the globe and an eight-line poem along
Day 23 – Wabi-Sabi
Origin: Japanese
Meaning: The beauty within the imperfections of life and art – an imperfect beauty. The thought of finding beauty in every aspect of imperfection in nature.
Poem
There is always,
A stranger in you,
Looking for perfection,
And another stranger in you.
The only perfect,
Ever to be,
Is possibly,
The wabi-sabi.
We all know the ending. But we still need to live through the parts of the story. That is why imperfections make it worthy of living.
Word Pronunciation: wah-bee-sah-bee
It’s April of 2022 and Day 22 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Wordy Wonders.” I am selecting words that have deeper and graceful meanings, from across the globe and an eight-line poem along
Day 22– Vacilando
Origin: Spanish
Meaning: Appreciating the travel than the destination and knowing that is more important.
Poem
If you truly see,
Destination is a myth.
All that is there,
Is a journey,
On and going,
Into the bliss.
Vacilando,
Is the only real.
We all are set for the travel and there is no meaning in waiting for the destination to arrive. Living the moments we get, is all we got.
Word Pronunciation: vah-SEE-lan-doh
It’s April of 2022 and Day 21 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Wordy Wonders.” I am selecting words that have deeper and graceful meanings, from across the globe and an eight-line poem along
Day 21– Ukiyo
Origin: Japanese
Meaning: Living in the moment and detaching from the bothers of life.
Poem
The time ticks,
Streets that don’t talk,
Trees that swing,
Dust that fly,
All that you see,
Everything,
Except you,
In ukiyo.
I don’t think it’s easy to live in the moment. We carry loads of distractions and maybe we don’t even know what that looks like, anymore! But we can try. Can’t we?
Word Pronunciation: u-key-yo
It’s April of 2022 and Day 20 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Wordy Wonders.” I am selecting words that have deeper and graceful meanings, from across the globe and an eight-line poem along
Day 20 – Toska
Origin: Russian
Meaning: An ache for nothing and everything, all at once. The ache of the soul.
Poem
In bits and pieces, life,
Showed us nothing,
Made us ask every.
And then,
Told us every,
Is really nothing.
We are now
A toska doll!
And when we become a Toska doll, I recommend traveling. Travel and living the moments of nothingness. And nothing is really more supreme than a travel companion who is everything.
Word Pronunciation: tuh-skah
It’s April of 2022 and Day 19 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Wordy Wonders.” I am selecting words that have deeper and graceful meanings, from across the globe and an eight-line poem along
Day 19 – Sattva
Origin: Sanskrit
Meaning: Sattva is a quality of holistic, purity, wisdom, goodness, serene, peaceful, virtuous, and other qualities of righteous balance. It is one of the three gunas (characteristics) of humans whereas the other two are rajas and tamas.
Poem
Let go of an unknown,
Live a hurdle,
Capture it real,
Walk on the sands,
Rejoice the wrinkles,
Know it all.
A sattva,
Isn’t in perfection.
Every human is known to have proportions of sattva, rajas, and tamas qualities. Calmness can be mastered only when the chaos is truly lived.
Word Pronunciation: satt-va
It’s April of 2022 and Day 18 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Wordy Wonders.” I am selecting words that have deeper and graceful meanings, from across the globe and an eight-line poem along
Day 18 – Rame
Origin: Balinese
Meaning: Something that’s both chaotic and joyful at the same time.
Poem
The things that I,
Intended to say,
Stay put inside,
Dancing in glee.
In my rame of thoughts,
We have done so much,
More than talks,
More than what is really out.
A company can do many things. A good company is never a smooth sail. If one has to feel the joy, one must also welcome chaos and pass deep through it.
Word Pronunciation: raim
It’s April of 2022 and Day 17 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Wordy Wonders.” I am selecting words that have deeper and graceful meanings, from across the globe and an eight-line poem along
Day 17 – Querencia
Origin: Spanish
Meaning: A place where you feel home, a place of your most authentic self. A place from which your strength of character is drawn and where you feel safe.
Poem
I have felt the
Querencia,
With you, around you,
And every single time,
I care less of world,
Less of word,
Because you,
Become my world.
We all have our people who make us feel at home. We don’t need luxury. All we need is to be beside and feel.
Word Pronunciation: kweeuh-ruhn-see-uh
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