Good Byes
Good byes are always so so painful
Grief is the price we pay for love by bucketful
Love is what makes the world go round
Makes it go round, all around and above
Round and round we go in a perpetual circle
For that unattainable... – by Badal Pal | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Was she ever here?
My mind struggles a lot
Bonnie was here and then not
She was so close once
We used to dance
Now she is gone
And we are forever forlorn
My mind conjures up a trick
Every now and then a despairing hit
Anguish spills... – by Badal Pal | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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AT NANDO’S WITH BONNIE
Bonnie loved going out
A quiet , dignified person
Yet every now and then
She would be exuberant
One could see the joy and exultation
On her face on these occasions
No debate about Nando’s
That’s one of her... – by Badal Pal | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Corona Covid had just arrived
It was December Twenty Nineteen
The virus had not before been seen
At Christmas I was again with my Bonnie
Like all Christmases before bar one only
We had no inkling then that
That Christmas would be our last... – by Badal Pal | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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Bonnie is always in my mind
Ever in my consciousness
A flash back just came earlier in earnest
After a frantic day at work
Whilst driving back home tired
Gnawing in my heart was a scene from our past mire
Could be before or after you two... – by Badal Pal | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Another Birthday ,
It’s 11 October 2022 , today.
Born 1984 in Prince of cities, Durham
Died 2022, all alone
In London , forlorn
Would have been 38 today
11 October 2022, her birthday
Almost all of her birthdays
I had been with... – by Badal Pal | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Dear Adam
Sorry we haven’t been able
To have a proper chat for a while
As our whole beings have been
Anything but stable
Of our often dismal stories
Lots of questions , long memories
And thoughts play out in my mind
Like a repeat... – by Badal Pal | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Sleep my Princess, sleep , sleep
At last you are in peace, peace
The vagaries of life to you
Have been so tormenting, tormenting
You are so now forever released
From the shackles unrelenting
Released, released
The cauldrons of fire... – by Badal Pal | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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BONSAI
I had a few pet names for her
As she did for me
I was ‘ Pumpkin’ mostly
She used to say so tenderly!
I called her ‘ my Princess’
Or more often the most endearing ‘ Ma’
Ma in Bengali is Mother
Because she was as loving to me as... – by Badal Pal | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Death is nothing at all new
You have simply slipped away
Into the next domain
I am I , and I remain same
Emphatically so
And you are you
Emphatically too
Whatever we were to each other
That’s still emphatically true
Our love for each... – by Badal Pal | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Two years of her slumber
Bonnie passed away this month of July
In the year of Twenty Twenty
I had lost my daughter to eternity
That July sky was overcast
It was damp, humid and steadfast
Today we have gathered to give her
Our love... – by Badal Pal | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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‘YOU SAW THE WHOLE OF THE MOON’
I was listening to the radio
Driving Jahnavi to her work
When this song came up in crescendo
It’s such a melodious tune
It turns your heart in a swoon
The singer is alluding to the moon
I didn’t know... – by Badal Pal | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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Dearest Bonnie
Christmas is never going to be the same
Anymore without you and your burning flame
But wherever you are , for you
Our love
Will shine through
All above
Christmas is never going to be the same again ever
I can still see... – by Dr Badal Pal | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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My beloved daughter Bonnie was born
On this day of Eleventh of October
In the year of Nineteen Eighty Four
Thirty six years ago
That is today
When my emotions are running high
And my mind is going... – by Badal Pal | 12 Views added 2 years ago
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It’s that impalpable sort of a place
Like a mirage
A dream is that kind of a facade
Strange imperceptible visions
Eerily untouchable... – by Badal Pal | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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With apologies to the Musical
( ‘….about Jamie..’)
In my iterative mind , I sit and ponder
What life is all about, I wonder
So many obstacles make you mad
There’s a wall inside my... – by Badal Pal | 23 Views added 2 years ago
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It was bit of a crowd this morning
I wasn’t in any rush
But I have been in mourning
I saw this man from a distance
Slim built and tall , looked like Adam
I felt a sudden pang in my heart
I wondered can this tall man
Walking over the yonder be... – by Badal Pal | 15 Views added 2 years ago
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Don’t wait for the storm to pass
In the rain learn to dance
I am dancing in the rain
Dancing in the rain
Come storm or not
I will dance in the... – by Badal Pal | 17 Views added 2 years ago
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was 19 th of July 2020, I was in London,
visiting my distraught daughter Bonnie.
She was seemingly at the end of her tether
and talking about leaving us for... – by Badal Pal | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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My daughter just texted
She wrote she wanted to cry
She was out on a nature trip high
The sheer beauty got her awe... – by Badal Pal | 15 Views added 2 years ago
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In the desolate heat of Kabul,
There descends a hellish ordeal
Of refugees’ uncertain route to freedom
Unleashed by the fire of the... – by Badal Pal | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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I have arrived at the station
like scores of times before.
I have travelled many thousands of miles
and have to travel still hundreds... – by Badal Pal | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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Flowing water somehow has an appeal
to us all,
calmly flowing water has a calming effect on our minds,
just as a tsunami will be devastating to mankind,
water is this mesmeriser,
it effects us
hook line and... – by Badal Pal | 14 Views added 2 years ago
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A Good Day... – by Badal Pal | 12 Views added 2 years ago
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He is called Evert
Take great care
He is a destroyer
Havoc of storm and despair
Warning! Avoid travel
unless essential.
Better stay at home
and not travel
stay indoors
jobs to apply
study and tidy,
take it... – by Badal Pal | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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HAPPINESS
Happiness is that quiet blissful state of mind,
where one is not wanting ever more to find,
an unspoken gratitude for what you have,
one of peace and contentment with self.
Happiness is that quiet blissful state of mind,
One of a... – by Badal Pal | 67 Views added 2 years ago
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I have an image in a deep recess of my mind,
that of a photograph of a frail elderly man ,
published in the newspaper ,
he is to his neck level waddling through flood... – by Badal Pal | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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Its a proverbial , age old dilemma
an eternal all pervading question
in the minds and souls of all mankind
since the dawn of prehistoric times.
Who created the Universe
and not only the earth ?
Is HE the same God that
created life and... – by Badal Pal | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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A big round circle of a wheel.
The giant metal structure does look menacing
but in a large and spacious fairground
with children joyously running around
mirth and festivities in here... – by Badal Pal | 75 Views added 2 years ago
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After a hard day’s work
when one is rather exhausted
comes the rejoicing when rested.
The sense of reward then is exhilarating more
than any enjoyment without the toil and sweating ... – by Badal Pal | 30 Views added 2 years ago
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They say charity begins at home.
This may be true and a belief in me grown.
Just like stewards announce in aircrafts
‘Put your own mask first before you help others’,
so too one should look after oneself first
so that one can better help... – by Badal Pal | 9 Views added 2 years ago
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To take things for granted,
its like law of diminishing returns,
one starts to feel entitled, views slanted.
For gratitude builds up your immunity.
And it suppresses stress by necessity
Thus one has both science and philosophy
to reveal that... – by Badal Pal | 22 Views added 2 years ago
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There’s no enemy on the outside,
all of them reside in our soul inside ,
hate , greed, envy, anger and pride.
Avoid all and peace will be in your... – by Badal Pal | 15 Views added 2 years ago
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Days and nights pass
with daily grinds,
of life in a mayhem,
we get on with what
must be done in tandem.
What might even be enjoyable,
but often mundane yet essential
for sustenance of life and livelihood.
I even laugh at the jokes if I... – by Badal Pal | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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They say, ‘let the train
take the strain’.
I am thinking , won’t it be fab
if the train
could take the
agony out of our... – by Badal Pal | 40 Views added 2 years ago
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What Love can transcend all woes
Can it erase all shadows,
all shades of black and grey,
can love answer as you... – by Badal Pal | 14 Views added 2 years ago
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When you are there
but not there!
You know what I mean,
it’s not always as it seems,
you may be there
but miles away some... – by Badal Pal | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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For years I have had
this all consuming nightmare.
Dreading his demise
when I am still alive,
I am in a... – by Badal Pal | 19 Views added 2 years ago
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Meow..
He is now big and burly
but when we got him he was tiny.
We bought him from Dagenham
not far from our flat in London Town.
Bonnie fell in love with him
soon as she saw him as a... – by Badal Pal | 12 Views added 2 years ago
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Walking away is a good strategy
in many walks of life we see.
Arguments don’t get you anywhere,
they only make your anger pile.
Walk away from them all... – by Badal Pal | 20 Views added 2 years ago
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You left us for your next abode
I didn’t know.
You did give a hint,
don’t know how
but I failed to heed.
I pray for your soul
my dearest daughter
a princess to me for ever
I pray for you my... – by Badal Pal | 24 Views added 2 years ago
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All change, all change,
as the train in the tube,
comes to a stop at a station,
and it’s a standstill again,
it’s all change, all change.
At the jerk of the stop,
I am startled with a shock,
as my day dreams eclipse,
I was almost... – by Badal Pal | 19 Views added 2 years ago
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The tragic loss of my daughter Bonnie
that too a year ago in July Twenty Twenty
still feels so raw
and an unimaginable blow
to my soul and a deeper... – by Badal Pal | 34 Views added 2 years ago
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Life is actually really simple
but our vexed feelings and
complex thinking make it
complicated a little
Life is a game of tests and challenges
all of them come to you as problems
They can make you bitter
Or they can make you... – by Badal Pal | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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I CAN’T SLEEP
I can’t sleep
I can’t sleep
I’m retreating
I’m falling
My deep
inside is struggling
I can’t sleep
I can’t... – by Badal Pal | 14 Views added 2 years ago
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Home
I don’t know how to say it
but it’s true we belong home.
Home sweet home,
adorned by the garden gnome.
There’s happiness and security
for the family and the children
we are at home kindred,
peace and beauty... – by Badal Pal | 21 Views added 2 years ago
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No one is coming to save us
No one will choose us or fuss
No one to validate us or discuss
It’s always been our job to do... – by Badal Pal | 9 Views added 2 years ago
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CHOOSE YOUR BATTLES WISELY
There’s a saying ‘ Lose the Battle , but Win the War’
This can cause you a faraar,
meaning if you are forceful and brute
you may win an argument
but not the peace or the... – by Badal Pal | 19 Views added 2 years ago
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DONT WORRY, BE... – by Badal Pal | 54 Views added 2 years ago
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SAD DOG STORY
Have you heard of this sad story?
It’s actually not a story
rather a true tale
but you will be really sorry.
It’s a sad tale I heard on the news
of a Chihuahua bought by a... – by Badal Pal | 20 Views added 2 years ago
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BEFORE YOU SPEAK
Before you say anything
before you utter your words
to express your rebuke
Or venge any criticism
Or perhaps even any... – by Badal Pal | 10 Views added 2 years ago
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RIGA
With a windswept coastline sweeping along the Baltic Sea rushes bewitching
In the North East of Europe, touching Russia
Jewel of a city is the Capital of Latvia,
a magical place of a gentle million is... – by Badal Pal | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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In Praise of Our Health... – by Badal Pal | 10 Views added 2 years ago
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Caught in a curfew
Armoured cars and armoured tanks,
its like in a war torn country flanks.
But this was in an urban city in America
in peace time USA
of an advanced country... – by Badal Pal | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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The year just gone today
the Twentieth of July Twenty Twenty One
It’s been a tumultuous year
after my Bonnie had passed... – by Badal Pal | 12 Views added 2 years ago
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A year ago today ,
& A tumultuous year.
A Year Ago Today (20 July 2020)
Twentieth July 2020
will forever be etched
in my memory
when a dagger was seared
through my heart... – by Badal Pal | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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COVID REFLECTIONS
By Dr Badal Pal,
Manchester
Covid has upstaged all lives.
People running here and there,
desperately searching for,
hospital beds with... – by Badal Pal | 21 Views added 2 years ago
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A year ago today
(20 July 2020)
Twentieth July 2020
will forever be etched
in my memory
when a dagger was seared
through my heart... – by Badal Pal | 14 Views added 2 years ago
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TROUBLED MINDS 2
When your mind is at odds,
and the world is at loggerheads,
take time out,
and find solace to pacify your self doubt,
and quench the thirst
of your inner... – by Badal Pal | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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TROUBLED MINDS 1
When our perplexed minds are troubling us,
we can not easily find the right answers
to our vexing problems.
Just like we can not see our reflections
in boiling water with... – by Badal Pal | 14 Views added 2 years ago
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Dark clouds and storm
It’s like monsoon as you see in the East
But these clouds are clamouring near me.
Nimbus and cumulous or whatever they are,
they are deep and dark,
mysterious yet menacing,
like my deep sorrow is dark and... – by Badal Pal | 57 Views added 2 years ago
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Journey... – by Badal Pal | 12 Views added 2 years ago
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Grieve or Celebrate?
When your loved ones are no more
how do you remember them ?
Do you mourn and grieve
or do you celebrate and reminisce?
Friends console you,
they say every one has to go,
sooner or later it’s the lot
for us all in... – by Badal Pal | 24 Views added 2 years ago
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Clearing my dead daughter ‘s room.
How many of us will ever have to do this ?
I mean going through your dead daughter’s things.
She passed away and that too by choice.
This was a year ago and I had no... – by Badal Pal | 23 Views added 2 years ago
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Blue... – by Badal Pal | 31 Views added 2 years ago
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A Walk in the... – by Badal Pal | 43 Views added 2 years ago
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No Choice Water
By Dr Badal Pal
Far away in the desert lands
or even closer to hand
many an arid desolation
lurk amongst us constant
No water or water is filthy
no water or it is silty
no choice water for ever
drink or die... – by Badal Pal | 19 Views added 2 years ago
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London Underground, it has an easily recognisable icon
One can see this from a great distance even
It’s lifelines in the underbelly of London are aptly called the Tube
Passengers inside are packed just like sardines in a tin and a loop
Have you... – by Badal Pal | 23 Views added 2 years ago
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