Puzzle Pieces of Life

By Dr Gunta Krumins-Caldwell

Puzzle Pieces Life is just that - giving people the opportunity to understand some pieces within themselves, that until now did not make sense. Engaging people to ponder on the parts within themselves that are confusing, or that they have tried to bury as a means of trying

• Language: English
• Publisher: Prime Seven Media
• Release date: May 21, 2024
• ISBN: 9781963883459

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Copyright © 2024 by Dr Gunta Krumins-Caldwell

Paperback: 978-1-963883-44-2

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Dedication

To my precious family, my friends and my patients-all

of whom have been teachers to me in so

many different and rich ways

Contents

Poems

Finding You

Enough

Feminine

Masculine

Forgiveness

Anger

What are the odds?

Procrastination

Alone/Lonely

Responsibility

Mirror Mirror

Settling for less

There are no ordinary moments

Regret

Sympathy Empathy and Compassion

Curiosity

Cause

Passion

Boundaries

Death

Lazy

Kind

Respect

Arrogance

Fear

Time

Mistake

Time heals

Triune of Life

Ubuntu

Smile

Expectations

At odds with oneself

Spite and retribution

Homelessness

Life is Magic

Meditation

Defenselessness

Beauty

Accommodate

Flat line

Probabilities and possibilities

Silence

Rectification

The road less traveled

Lessons

Sorry

Control and manage

Love

Listening

Poems

These poems are forged by me, but not by me.

I have a wise guide that channels me well

So I could scribe the pain that we all feel

And give light to it all in good straight talk

So it gives us some insight of what we all feel

But also a chance to listen and learn

As we traverse this earth as best as we can

Given the stakes of handicaps big

But by giving a hand to each other,

We can elevate ourselves to alleviate some hurdles

To step into a world that is better by far 🧩

Finding You

I’ll take you on a journey

Of curiosity and pain

Into the deeper layers of you,

Layer by layer,

From thinking,

To feeling,

To experiencing,

To realizing,

To acknowledging,

To eventually into

Your deep well of wisdom

That feels so rich

As you discover your true self

Ever deeper and deeper

Until surreptitiously

There is gratitude

Of self realised love

Of standing in your beauty 🧩

Enough

What is enough

We may well ask

Of ourselves and others

As we struggle to see

That enough is no friend

To the term mediocre.

So what is enough

As we struggle to see

That we are enough

Just as we are!

But that’s not enough

It’s frowned upon

And denigrated

As being just average

In a world of competitiveness

That surely falls short

Of what we ‘should’ expect

As we manoeuvre our way

Away from ourselves

And dishonour ourselves

To be what we are not

And forget to look within

To see our own treasures

That we feel are just rubbish

When we compare to another

As they struggle as well

To see their enoughness.

And so we seesaw

From enough

To average

To mediocre

To giving up on ourselves

As we try very hard

To see our own enoughness.

Yet that is life’s point

That all that we need

And all our uniqueness

Is definitely ours

So how can we compare?

Better by far

To find within

The treasures we carry

And stamp them enough

And be glad that by going within

We eventually find

The gifts that are ours.

So carry them well

For they need you to see

That indeed

They are more than enough 🧩

Feminine

The days are all gone

When to flutter your eyelashes

And look all demure

Was the sign

Of the feminine

So gentle and pure

Where helplessness

Added to the demureness

Of woman

So sweet and succumbing

And so easy to suppress

But all through the ages

Below appearances so calm

A river has been flowing

And gathering speed

On its way to the sea

Enough has been endured

Enough has been pillaged

From this feminine being

As she rises to woman

But as she rises to woman

To feel her own strength

And establish her will

She gets accused of

The masculine

That isn’t becoming

Of someone who

Nurtures

And takes care of the other

But how can Woman

Take care of another

If woman has never

Taken care of herself

So rise up woman

And learn what it takes