“Poetry is not for poets, poetry lovers or perceived poetic persons only. Poetry is in yourself, others and everything of nature and man-made.Poetry may not be a solution, yet it can reveal or ease challenges faced.Poetry is capable of affecting any heart.”
Gloria D. Gonsalves“No matter what justification you have for your feelings, you cannot wish harmful things on others.”
Gloria D. Gonsalves“Did you ever ask yourself if each one of us pursued a high educational degree, who would do the skilled manual work? Craftsmanship may not earn us the money we want but that does not mean we should scorn on anyone doing it. We are obliged to be respectful and grateful to anyone using their hands to clean our households, trim our hedges,carpentry our furniture, farm our food, crafts the objects we collect and gift, style our hairs, etc. Next time you encounter a crafts person acknowledge their manual competence.”
Gloria D. Gonsalves“Home is where the heart unveils.”
Gloria D. Gonsalves“A badly written novel can always be shortened to a poem.”
Gloria D. Gonsalves“Poetry is not difficult. If you possess one of the five senses, poetry is in it. If you can compose text message, tweet or Facebook status, you can write poetry. If you can rap a song, you can rhyme poetry. If you can memorise a prayer, you can recite poetry. If you struggle to make sense of formatted text, poetry is your call.”
Gloria D. Gonsalves“Poetry is –raw feelings as sunny summer,fiery turmoil as vibrant autumn,daunting revelation as stormy winter,intrepid hope as blooming spring.”
Gloria D. Gonsalves“Poetry is not for poets, poetry lovers or perceived poetic persons only. Poetry is in yourself, others and everything of nature and man-made.Poetry may not be a solution, yet it can reveal or ease challenges faced.Poetry is capable of affecting any heart.”
Gloria D. Gonsalves“Those trying moments teach us to desire greatness in ourselves and wider humanity.”
Gloria D. Gonsalves“Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.”
Gloria D. Gonsalves“To inspire is revealing the unpolished bits before perfection.”
Gloria D. Gonsalves