Improvident chase
Dazzled by life’s conundrums
Blindfold vaporize
Life is all about chasing and accomplishing our dreams and desires but often we get so much entangled and bedazzled in the cobwebs of our Supreme thoughts thinking we conquered that we forget we really shall taste death and we are here sailing for a little while.

There will be an end to everything. What all we will take with us and leave behind will be love, blessings, our deeds and memories. We do will have to answer our doings, our sayings and then only we will discern, life was a phantasm.
Life is beautiful indeed, enjoy and live its beauty but don’t surmise it will be eternal because your eternity belongs somewhere else.

© Samreen Asad 2020
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107 replies on “Phantasm”
Short and sweet story about life and it’s deeds which makes you in memories into thers hearts…. beautiful colors of pics. Thnx Samreen
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Thank you so much for always being there to read and comment, so much appreciated, really❤️❤️❤️
Happy weekend 🤗
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Nice post. I related to it.
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Thank you so much Sangita for your time , glad you resonated😊 Happy weekend 🌷
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Happy Weekend
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Thank you dear🙂🌻
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“we are only a vapor…like the morning mist!”
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Thank you so much Jonathan, so agree with your comment 😊 Happy weekend 🌷🌺🌼
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YOWZA!!!! You, too!
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Thank you🙂🌺
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Life certainly is a Phantasm 😅🥳 I love this word.
Beautiful thoughts captured with precision Samreen 💖🤗
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Even i did, that’s why the first thought which came to mind was this and I penned it down. 😀
Thank you so much dearest Uncle for your lovely words as always.
🤗💖 Happy meditation 🤗😀🌷🌻
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My pleasure Samreen. We had great morning session and lunch break now.
I enjoy these long meditations 😊💖😊
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That sounds so good uncle, I know you enjoy them very much😊🤗🌸💕
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Guten Tag.
Unser Leben ist Geschenk
Geheimnis in Demut
Moment der Seele
Im Leben geht es darum, unsere Träume als ein Naturereignis zu beachten, täglich sie für uns selbst richtig zu deuten. Daraufhin der Versuch das besser zu verfolgen.
Wir wissen uns weder Anfang noch Ende, noch das was nach unserem Abschied sein wird.
Unser Leben ist zwar dem Kosmos unbedeutend, doch liegt es an uns, das wenige was wir tun können, vor dem Akt, bewusst zu überprüfen.
Vor allem gilt es, sich seinem Schatten, dem selbst verursachten Unbill, aller Erinnerung wahrhaftig, uns selbst darin zu sehen, verantworten, und nicht drücken von Schuld und Sühne, mehr ist es zur Ewigkeit, die uns nicht im Besitz, es ist uns dem nicht.
Herzliche Grüße
Hans Gamma
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Good day.
Our life is a gift
Secret in humility
Moment of the soul
Life is about observing our dreams as a natural event, interpreting them correctly for ourselves every day. Then the attempt to follow that better.
We know neither the beginning nor the end, nor what will be after we say goodbye.
Our life is insignificant to the cosmos, but it is up to us to consciously check what little we can do before the act.
Above all, it is important to truly answer to his shadow, the self-inflicted injustice, to all memories, to see ourselves in it, and not to press for guilt and atonement, it is more to eternity that we do not have, it is us not.
Best regards
Hans Gamma
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What lovely thoughts you shared and I so loved your haiku😊
Thank you for such insightful thoughts 🙂
Happy weekend 🙂🌷🌺
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Beautiful story Samreen.<3
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Thank you sooo much Laleh for reading and so happy you liked it❤️ Happy weekend 😊🌺🌷🤗
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Always pleasure sweetheart, you too.❤️💕
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😍❤️🤗💖
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Masha Allah !!!🌺🌺 Wonderful words 🤗really life is a phantasm 💖🥰 !!keep writing dear. 💐🌹🥀
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Jazakillah khair bhabhi ❤️❤️❤️Happy Sunday 😊🥰
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Thanks so much Ned 😊 happy weekend 🌼🌸
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Indeed, we may be intoxicated by our victories, but we will not survive till eternity to gloat over the same. However, through our humanity, we will be talked about and live in people’s hearts and memories. Very well explained. And the last image was superb.
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You described it so well dear, thank you so much for your wonderful thoughts dear always, I so appreciate your each visit. 😊💚 Happy Sunday 🌷🌺
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well written. and a good reminder that everything mortal will end one day. We all should be trying to live life to its fullest and in a meaningful way
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Thank you so much Atul for your insightful thoughts and your time. Very appreciative 😊 I so agree with you 🌼 Happy Sunday 🙂🌷🌺
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My pleasure! 😊
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A Story of Two Mothers And Two Last Breaths
One Breath Empty Forever One Breath
Eternally Now Still Breathing…
My Wife Never Felt Her Mother’s
Love As Her Mother Took Her Last
Breath Indeed the Last Chance to Feel That Love
As i lay Next to my Wife That Night i Felt The Emptiness
Of That Breath She Never Breathed And Understood More Deeply
Then Why She Does not Find The Trust
And Comfort in This World That Comes
So Very Easy to Me As A Place Colored
With Love Eventually No Matter
What Black Abyss May
Come Next
For i came
to Feel and
Sense the Color
of my Mother’s Love
The Color of Sunshine
Always Returning no matter
How Dark A Night Empty Went Away
True i come From a Place of Light Seeing
Dark Returning to Breathing Love Once Again…
As Of Course Many of Us Do During This Breathing Life
Indeed the Silence After my Wife’s Mother’s Last Breath
Was only Silence A Black Hole Never Ending for my Wife
And Indeed As Empath Laying Next to
Her i felt i might not escape Back to
Love i Breathe Now So Free
The Silence After
My Mother’s
Breath
Was As Loud
As a Big Bang
For You See Her
Love Still Breathes in me
Therefore Thereby These Words
That continue in the Tradition of Her
Soul Still Breathing in me Yet it’s True
My Mother’s Love was Limited to my Sister
Mostly and i Whereas You Haven’t Spoken
The Name of Your Religion but Judging from
This Poem And Of Course Your Arabic Name
Not Really Knowing What You Look Like or
Your Age as i’m Pretty Sure the About
Picture is a Place Holder
For An Avatar or
Human Face there
Anyway i have Muslim Friends
Who Never Go Away And Stay
Through Thick And Thin And to
me Love is all that Counts Here and
Now Yet You See Yet You Breathe
Yet We Still See and Breathe
the Love of Others Who
Breathe in Us
Smiles
i have
Faced This Last
Breath Not Only In Others
but myself as Well Thrice And I will
Tell You This It is the Love For Others
The Giving That BreatheS on i got a Second
And Third
Chance
Not
All Do
i understand
the Value Of Love
That’s All i need to Do
Eternally Now i am Blessed
With the Faith of Love And Truly
Believe God is Love So Indeed
This
Now
This
Breath
Is Gift Enough
to Accept Death
It’s Well Beyond my
Pay Grade to Appreciate
Anything but this Gift of Love now
i Defer to the Nature of God And
Submit
That
i am Less
Than A Grain
Of Sand Yet Most
A Human Being Will
Ever Be This Breath of
Love Eternally Now…
to Give
And Share
Free No Doubt That
Love BreatheS on…
What Really
Takes
Faith
And Belief
Is to understand
That The Love We Give
Now Is Enough This Gift
Not Only That Yet to
Experience
Enough
Pain
And Misery
in Life to See Death
As The Blessing It is And Life
The Heaven We Make it now or not With Love
My Mother Thought the Only People Going to
Heaven LATER were Folks Who Worshipped
One man or one
Label
of name
Smiles it’s Sad that
She Didn’t Give Her Love to the World
At Best We Love More Than Our Parents Do
No Matter How
Much they Love Us
When God is Love
There are no Ifs ands Or
Buts THere is No True Love That
Requires Worship or Fears Criticism
Or Is Afraid of DarK or Cynical of LiGHT
Why?
Love Breathes….
Yet of Course Now
This iS oNly My Breath FRiEnD
And One Part i came to Understand
Coming Home Laying In Bed that Long
Eternal Night Watching my Mother’s Last
Breath is How Important It is to Breathe
Love in Stories Indeed Like the
One of Jesus For It’s
True a Story
is as
Close
As Some
Folks Come to Breathe
Love Therefore i respect all
Religions as i understand for
Some the Book They Read is as
Close as they get to Love Ever now…
Indeed there
Are many
Blessings
Of Life
Learning to
Understand
The Hows and
Whys Goes Along Way to Reach Love For All
Shall We Have An All Forgiving Loving God Eternally Now
Indeed
if
We Will
Love Eternally now
This God Truly Breathes in and As Us
i am surely No Materialist i Personally
See Miracles in my Life That Defy All
Reasons in Fact God Shows God’s
Face to me as i Believe
God Does in
Everyone’s
Life Differently
in Eyes of God now
That Live in Each Human
Being Yet Beyond all Names
My Friend Beyond All Reasons
Beyond All Words Yes Beyond all Is Love This God i Breathe…
“Time” My Mother’s Favorite Song By Alan Parson’s She Wanted
to Go Naturally She Suffered in Silence With Cancer For Several
Years Refusing to See a Doctor Only Occasionally Taking an
Aspirin for Her Pain that She only Related Was
Arthritis Then After Beating my Sister
In A Game of Scrabble in
February of 2017
She Fell to Her
Death Bed on Valentine’s
Day The Doctor Said Without
Food or Drink As the Most Merciful
Way Modern Medicine Offers to Starve
Someone to Death the only way They Could
Explain How she lasted 8 Days Rather than
The Usual 3 is the Strength of Her Heart then
Indeed the
Strength
That Came
From Loving
Only Her Two Children
Just Imagine How Strong
Her Heart Would Have Been if
She Loved All of Existence As God is Love
Smiles my FRiEnD at this Point if you need to imagine…
Anyway We played ‘Time’ For Her As We Sat Beside Her
For 8 Days Although She Was Not Conscious We
Felt
it
Gave Her
Comfort
i only Believe
in Love It’s all that makes Life worth breathing….
my Mother’s Cancer Was Bleeding in Her Brain
All in Her Bones in Every Part of Her
Body Yet
it did not
Stop Her
From Breathing
Until the Last
Breath and Never Now
Will Through my Breath my FRiEnD..
Shall i Give it to Others Yes inDeed i Will
Forevermore than Time… Now
SMiLes
iN A ReTurn
Of A FRiEnDly ‘Card’
too THiS TiMe Now..:)
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Oh Fred, that is so heart touching, very sorry for your mother and MIL’s
loss. I can so relate to it, lost my father very early as a child. Every heartbeat is our will power and controlled by that divine God😊 We breathe neither an extra nor a less breath, all is pre written. How beautiful would it be to breathe for the love of humanity, brotherhood and peace and I so appreciate your gesture Fred🙂 you guessed it right by my Arabic name 🙂
Smiles Fred as always you do. 😁And as always I do reading your comments🌷
Take care and thank you so much for always reading my poems 🌻 I so appreciate that 😊
Happy weekend 🌷🌺🌼
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SMiLes Dear Samreen i Believe in a Life of Putting People
First And Each Soul That Touches Our HeART Rises
This SPiRiT of Love Even More
Shall We Say Light For
The Entire World
i Verily Will
My FRiEnD
How
Beautiful
It is to be
ReTired Only
Living With Pay-Grade
Pay-Rate And Soul Pay
of Love Allone Yes Without all
The Distractions And Diversions
That Take us Away From Coloring
Life With Love From Our Very Childhood
Yet of Course i Apeak of Where i come from
Not So Sure of How Life Individually For Souls
Works Out IN Qatar But i Still See That Emerald
Gulf In My Mind In itself Enough to Reach Out to
God In Peace and Harmony As Waves Come
And Go Further Expanding Shores As
Tides Rise and Fall And Waves
Return Again in Yes
Peace
And Harmony
Again For True
God Breathes in All
As At Best We Do With Love True
Thank You Very Much for Your Kindness
And Welcoming Ways For When Humans
Treat Each Other This Way All there is is
Friendly Brothera And Sisters and
An Entire Family that Colors
Love Every Where
Friends
Touch
Souls With
SPiRiT HeART
Open And Free For All
This Truth This Wisdom
This Courage This Fearless
Love Breathing With least
Harm For Others
All Forever
more
now
Indeed a Nice
ReTiReMeNT
Hobby i Dance And Sing Free..:)
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💐💐 “because your eternity belongs somewhere else.” An amazing poem especially I loved this line 🙂🌹
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Yes, dear that line holds so much truth😊 Thank you so much dear for your support always 🙂 means a lot, Happy Sunday🌞🌸🌷
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You are welcome Samreen 🙂💐 have a good weekend 🍕🏠🎉 🌹
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Thank you dear😊💐✨🍟🍔🍒🍓
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As always, a beautiful entry, Samreen. Just lovely. And completely True.🙏.😊.❤️
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As always, thank you sooo much Jeff for your kind and encouraging words, means so much😊🌷💚
Happy weekend 🌼🌺🌻
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You’re welcome, Samreen, always my pleasure. Happy weekend to you too.❤️😊🙏
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Thanks so much dear 🌸😊🌸
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Dear Samreen,
I love that you went to bed just now with 140 likes which will explode in the morning and wake up to more. Likes are not what matter but your writing speaks to the truth and heart and that is such a gift to all that read your writing. Likes are a reflection of your light shinning on the page and igniting spirit, which you do so well. I love every word here and learned a new one! I had to look up Phantasm… (not that I’ll remember it 🤣, but i love learning something new). You have a gift with words and spirit and I am blessed to bare witness to your beauty within. You are a gift!
Thank you❤️ 🙏xoxoxoox ❤️ Cindy
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Dearest Cindy, this is one of the most beautiful comments I have read about me, am so overwhelmed with your kindness, thank you sooooo much 😘❤️❤️❤️❤️
Truly honored and grateful to you for always reading and appreciating tonnes. I am gonna remember your words always, btw who doesn’t if it’s their appreciation 😅😉😍 you made my year 😇 the only good thing about this year was that I started blogging and got connected with amazing gifted people like you😀 and of course God kept us all in good health.
Thank you tonnes Cindy, lots of love and big hugs🤗🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Good Evening Samreen! The pleasure is all mine. I am so happy to hear it gladdened you’re heart and it was so special to you! You are doing one of the hardest jobs and important jobs in the world 🌎 raising your children and the fact that you are able to write astonishes me. I remember when my 4 were 6 and under and the selfish work it took to get through a day.
My comments were well deserved and I thank you for your wise words always! It is a gift to share our feelings and lives through stories and poems and I too feel blessed. Lots of blessings have evolved this year for me which is such a gift!
Love and hugs and admiration always. I hope you get some sleep 😴💕🙌 🙌💕❤️xoxoxo
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Good afternoon Cindy❤️🤗
It did sooo much dear🌸💖🌻😊
Indeed, raising kids is I guess is one of the hardest jobs, am just handling one who equals to three 🤣
You are such a positive Enlightened mind Cindy, I so adore and respect you a lot😘 Thank you so much again for your kindness🥰😍
I get sleep in the night itself as my son once awake doesn’t sleep the whole day, so do I. 😀
Take care dear and have a wonderful day 🌻 Love and hugs back 🥰❤️❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
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So happy to hear Samreen! It is our biggest joy and biggest heartache! Heavy lifting physically when small and yet beats the emotional difficulty when they grow and suffer in other ways. At least you know where they are when they are small. Oh you are very kind and I appreciate you appreciating me. ❤️🤗 It has taken many years to grow in wisdom but as long as we learn we are growing.
oh good to hear you get your rest!!! ❤️🤗❤️🤗🌷🌷🌷 Big hugs and thanks for yours! They are tucked in my herat dear one. ❤️
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I so agree with your words Cindy, at least we know where they are, that’s what my mother says, it’s good and not at all difficult when you are small, when you grow up, it’s way more.. 😊Yes, we keep on learning and that’s good to learn in any which way we can 💕 That’s soo sweet of you, good night Cindy, have a sound sleep 🤗🤗❤️❤️🥰😘😘
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This is so true and mothers do get this stuff.. Learning we do.. sometimes over and over until we get it right but learn we do.. Thanks and have a great day Samreen. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ xo
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Yes we do and better we should indeed😊 Thank you Cindy and you too have a wonderful day tomorrow 🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗
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indeed!~!!! rThank you sooo much. I will and you too.. ❤️👏🙏
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You are always welcome dearest and thank you so much 😊🤗❤️❤️❤️
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you are so welcome my friend. ❤️❤️❤️
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So beautiful and yes..I too agree..Love is the lesson we must learn here,, love, compassion, kindness..everything else is filler and some of it even distracts us from our purpose.. I love how you put these thoughts out..for all of us to dine on..I feel I am at a dinner table and you placed this thought in front of me.. how delicious and it makes me feel full in the best of ways..Habeebity.. ❤️ 🤗🌺🌸❤️
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Your words as I always say are so beautiful and soothing to hear and the correlation you make is even more beautiful. I love this ❤️❤️❤️ That’s so very kind of you habeebity and am so happy to serve you in any which way be it a platter of thoughts for that matter😀🌸 Thank you sooo much.. 💖hugs and love🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️
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MashaAllha …It is written very well 👏that in fact everything has to come to an end and if we are living it is a false house, our real house is somewhere else.
but leave behind will be love, our deeds and memories🤗
I love u dear😘
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Thank you so much dear for your love and support always, truly means a lot 😍❤️Love you too😘
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I am kind of keeping away from blogging for quite sometime, but, this post of yours did make me feel what a wonderful place it is; full of life and the organic words that remind the beauty of life in itself! Thank you.. 😊
Ps. Beautiful write-up Samreen.. Keep expressing. ❣️🌻
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I am quite overwhelmed by your lovely words Naman, thank you so much for your time and kind appreciation, elated you liked it. 😊
Have a wonderful week ahead🌺🌸🌻
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You’re most welcome Samreen.. 🌻🤗
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Your thoughts are exactly what everyone needs to learn in these times! 🙌🏽
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Thank you so much for your kind words and the time you took to comment, much appreciated 😊 Have a good day 🌸🙂🌺🌷
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Oh thank you 🌸 Do check out my blog too! ✨
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You are welcome Azaina, I followed 😊
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Infact a great reminder
Thanks for sharing this ❤
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Thank you so much Insa for your time reading and appreciating, means a lot😊. Have a good day 🌺
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You’re most welcome samreen❤
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have linked your comment back to your blog!
I have never seen so many likes or comments on posts, even those with more than five thousand followers! That clearly says your work is resonating 🙂
I didn’t know the word phantasm so had to look it up … I often think of life as a dream, a fantasy, here one minute gone the next … well articulated!
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Thank you so much dear for your kindness, am honored by your sweet words. 💖
When I learnt this word, then itself I related it to life, it is, as you said a dream, a fantasy, people go and come and we forget and move on until it is our time to go. 😊
Thank you so much Kate for your appreciation❤️
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my pleasure, you have real talent Samreen 🙂
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I guess am fortunate enough to be able to connect, that’s it dear, 🙂 you are way more 🌺💚 Thank you so much for your love❤️😊🤗
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you are most welcome!
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“All we take with us and leave behind will be Love, Blessings, Our Deeds and Memories” – Its so Genuine dear Samreen, your words touched my heart..
A poignant reminder for the passing of time..
Thankyou..
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Thank you so much Seema for your kind words, am so happy you liked it. 😊 Have a wonderful day🌻🙂🌸
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👏very well present truth of life in Short story… here we have to live shortwhile with love… our real and eternal life is somewhere else… keep it up saman with lots of love..👍
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Thank you so much Bhabhi for your kind words and support always, lots of love to you too🤗❤️❤️🤗
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Nice truths my friend. Lovely way of making one think life isn’t forever and we do need to try and leave positive love, and emotions behind. I certainly agree this is not our final resting place. Lovely. Have a wonderful day. Love ❤️ Joni
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Thank you so much Joni for your time and such beautiful words 😊❤️ Means a lot 🙂 Have a good day ❤️❤️🤗🤗
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I agree with you. What is it with all the chasing anyway? Life is nothing if we are not present.
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Certainly , life is nothing if we are not present but a thoughtless chase to achieve worldly desires and living actually to fulfill them in this world and believing for the hereafter. Both the aspects requires your presence but the prior your brain and the latter your heart and the brain. That’s my opinion 😊
Thank you so much for your time reading and I appreciate your comment. 🙂 Have a good day. 🌻🌺🌸
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Wow… That’s really great.. I loved it… Thanks for sharing
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Thank you so much Shayan for your time and kind words 😊 Have a good day 🌷🌺🌸
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Wonderful photography!
A visual treat…
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Thank you so much Debasis for your time reading and kind words. 😊 Have a happy sunday🌺🌼
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My pleasure…
Happy Sunday to you too!
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Thank you😊
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👍…🙏
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Reblogged this on B +Ve !!.
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Thank you so much dear, means a lot😊
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Most welcome…🙏
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🙂🌻🌸
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Yes life is beautiful
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Indeed dear, thank you for your comment always Denise😊💕
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Reblogged this on Creative Writing Course and commented:
don’t let the motivation sleep, Samreen
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Love the poem. That picture, Samreen. Exactly how a young person would act – reach out and not see the danger or – reckon it all worthwhile!
Gwen.
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Yeah that picture speaks a lot, what I perceived of it, I just tried to pen it down 😊 Thank you so much for your words Gwen, you are so kind❤️ Have a lovely day💕🤗
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Love your haiku!
– TishGirl❤️
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Thank you so much dear for your time, glad you liked it 🥰 Good day💖
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No problem! Hope you have a good day!
– TishGirl❤️
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Thanks dear😊
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😊
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