Sail into the World of My Poems

By Shalini Joseph

This book and its contents belong solely to me, and I have composed these poems over a period of time. They are what I can daily muse or my experience from day to day. These poems relate to no one in particular and are just feelings and experiences that I have gone through in daily life.
Some of the poems relate to some events in my life but are solely composed by me, and all the original copies are in my custody.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: May 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482831085

Shalini Joseph

Shalini Joseph was born in India on September 12, 1962. The oldest of three siblings, she finished her schooling from St. Joseph Convent H. School–Belgaum in India and moved to Bombay to finish her graduation. She graduated in arts from the Bombay University in India and then moved to the Gulf, where she began her career in working, in Dubai in the early eighties. She got married in January 1991 and became a widow in August 2010. She is the mother of three children, one son and two daughters. She loves writing and thinks she has a flair for writing. She can write anytime, anyplace, and at any given moment, and what she writes is very simple to understand and feel. Besides writing, her other favorite pastime is gardening, cooking, and playing scrabble and solving crosswords. She would like to dedicate this book to her late husband, Joseph, and her three children, Stallone, Joann, and Sanan.

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Contents

0 - 10

A brighter day

A burning heart

A car park

A change? Why?

A circus lady

A class

A cloudy day

A crush I cannot forget

A doomed Angel

A downtrodden man

A dream shack

A forgotten cemetery

A gloomy day

A heavenly place

A heavenly sight to see

A hectic Christmas

A hundred times I pray

A life gone too soon

A little bundle

A little secret

A lonely soul

A love so true

A message everyday

A new life, a new taste

A passionate night

A peaceful office

A poem

A prayer of hope

A pure heart

A real friend

A sadist mother

A simple prayer

A sip

A tattoo SJ

A tremor - not aware

A view from the top

A weeping heart

A whisper in the wind

A wish

A wish I wish

Abraham

Ah a carbon copy

Ah memories

Ah my poems

Ah summer

Ah that photo

Ah that sand

Ah the Angels

Ah the last bench

Ah war

Alleluia to the Lord

Am old and strong

An amazing love

An Angel of the valley

An angel to our rescue

An old ship

And in September

And the rain came down

And who am I?

As I watch the worlds go by

As the year rolls by

Bad hair day

Being alone

Beneath the Christmas tree

Broken love

Bunch of Roses

Christmas time

Crash

Death

Debra Joseph

December

Deeply thinking of you

Department change

Don’t be jealous

Drive into the lawn

Elegance

Faithfulness to the Lord

Fight no

Fire dancer

Fish or fish bones

Flowers

Fly away little heart

Forgetting to remember

Get well soon dear friend

God’s spirit

Goddess of beauty

Going home for Christmas

Goodbye

Half moon

Hand in a cast

Happiness is

Happy hours

He is the Lord our God

Helping the poor & needy

Her silk body

Her slender legs

Hey Baker man

Hey Snowman

His eyes

His last words

HOPE

Hope, faith & prayer

I am all alone

I am blessed

I am the broom

I miss my husband

I pray to you

I seek an answer

I sighed

I smile

I still do love you

I stumble

I will win

I write

I write

If only

In my free time

In shame

It is written

It was over?

It’s autumn

It’s trick or treat time

Joseph

June skies

Keep praying

Killer ways

Last night

Latest version of my rhymes

Latest version of my rhymes

Leaf of Peace

Life has to go on

Little fairy angels

Love and Life

Love your enemies

Lunch at a park

Marooned on an island

Memories, they hurt to touch.

Merry Christmas everyone

Message on a balloon

Messy date

Mint sapling

Mixed colors mixed feelings

Morning rain

Mother Theresa

Mr. Potato

My best friend

My blue jeans

My faith in the Lord

My feelings today

My fish

My friend the Moon

My God

My heart’s desire

My humble plea

My love affair

My lovely plants

My missing heart

My morning ritual

My potted plants

My Prince charming

My red car

My resolutions

Nature’s fury

New York Fire Fighters

No way

Not a chance

Oh Lord I miss him

Oh Moon

Oh Moon

Oh Mother Mary

One day at a time

One life

One life to live

Only Key

Only one God

Our Lord Jesus Christ

Our refuge and hope

Peace on earth

Picnic time

Poetry writing passion

Pots & Pans

Punished

Ramadan Kareem

Restless feet

Run you pup

Safe under my wings

Sailing through life

Santa’s lap

Say a Prayer

She is amazing

Sigh

Slaves of a time

Smiling (*-*)

So you agree

Some gibberish - My muse

Sorry has no meaning

Spider of life

Stage fear

Survival

Sweet love

Sweet lovers

Sweetheart I miss you

Tell me who I am

Thank you Lord

Thanksgiving 2014 (Acrostic)

That evil woman

That tear

That white lie

That winter’s day

That woman

That’s me I say

The ancestors from Timbuktu

The animal kingdom

The big bloke

The biker

The blues of turning 40

The clock

The conch

The curve of death

The farmyard friends

The full Moon

The Ghost Town

The giant of a man

The good old days

The Guest from the West

The holy spirit

The house where I first dated

The last letter

The Lord Almighty

The memory of you

The old wooden house

The pest he was

The Piano

The raging sea

The starlet

The truth

The truth I penned

The two lovers entwined

The word of God changed me

Those attractive eyes

Those beautiful seven years

Those eyes

Those final moments

Those Parachutes

Those scales

Those sweet memories

Those were the days

Thread

To those sweet days

Top of the world

Total disapointment

True love

Two lovers

Two stray friends

Velvet beauty

Was she smiling for no reason?

Watered eyes

What is our value?

Who was she

Widow

Will you?

Winter is here

Winter’s sleep

Workplace romance

Would be history

Would be history

You will never let us hunger

Your cheating heart

Poems written by over a period of time.

0 - 10

One day we said together I love you

Two of us united together in holy matrimony

Three lovely children we have

Four of us now left alone

Five of we were so happy together

Six evil eyes fell on our lovely family together

Seven you are now in heaven resting in peace

Eight I remember the month you passed away

Nine the month we were to travel on a holiday

Ten is the month of your little angel’s birthday and she has missed you and always will

For from 0 – 10 you were my friend, my love, my husband whom I miss very much!

A brighter day

I was hoping for a bright, clear day,

I opened the curtains and what I saw was,

but this morning was drizmal.

It felt so sad to start a day like this so dull and cloudy,

I got out of bed, made a cup of coffee,

sat by the widow watching the droplets on my window pane,

the whole place so foggy,

I kind of felt a twang in my heart,

I looked up at the sky,

I sighed and sent a prayer up,

and as I finished my prayers and opened my eyes,

I found a bright sky, the sun was playing hide and seek,

I smiled, felt happy, for my prayer turned

a drizmal day to a much brighter day!

A burning heart

A strong burning desire from within

All choked up and ready to burst to flames

Ah those strong emotions

have now burst forth like a lava over the earth

bringing out all hearts desires!

A car park

Out of my window from the third floor

I see only a car park,

and way below an open air cafe

called the Shakespeare!

Squeaking and screeching cars

I hear every time I look at the car park

A new face a new car

what a busy place is that!

But down below at Shakespeare

is way different,

Different people of different nationalities

joined together in harmony,

Smoking, sipping on hot coffee

or nibbling at the snacks,

laughing, joking and gossiping they are –

what a lovely place that is

and hoped the world could be the same!

A change? Why?

And you say you want to change

but why?

You are perfectly fine where you are.

For you write excellent poetry as not many can write like you.

You are different; you are one of a kind

So stay there and be the same

Do not change!

When times comes there will be a change in your life

and then you would want another change again,

So please don’t’ change and remain as you are!

And enjoy this time and