Do you know why we are all gathered here? 🤔
Because our thoughts, our feelings,
are deeply positive for life 🌿.

We are those rare souls ✨
who think a little differently from the world,
and we turn those feelings into words 🖋️.
After all, every writer only writes
what their heart truly feels ❤️.

Yes, our countries are different 🌍,
our languages, our lifestyles,
our days and nights are all different…
but still, our hearts think the same way 💫.

And this teaches us one truth —
the Universe always blesses everyone 🌌
in the same way, everywhere.

So why not become one? 🤝
Why not give each other gratitude 🙏,
love 💕 and kindness 🌸?

Life is made of very few moments, ⏳
so why not celebrate them together 🎉
on this beautiful platform of Hello Poetry,
which has given us all a chance
to stay connected as one family 🌺.

With endless love to you all 💖,
Yours, Usha 🌹

How beautiful is the rose

That I watch and admire

Unsightly thorns cling

And I lose my desire

Though thorns are still green

My sins are sightless still

Of greed, gluttony and envy

That may cloud my mind and will

But all humans sin deep inside

And all roses have thorns too

If all human sin is green,

Does that make love and virtue red and blue?

If all humans are unsightly thorns

Then we sin-filled humans will be blossoming roses too.

Because as the crown rests on his brow

Us thorns cling still, crucified now.

✍️ Usha Maniar

There is one undeniable truth of life — death.
One day, every heartbeat will fall silent,
and all that we built, dreamed, or feared will fade into stillness.

But there is another truth, far greater, far deeper:
If you live with kindness,
if you lift others when they fall,
if you share inspiration that lights their path —
then you never truly die.

Your body may rest,
but your spirit continues in every smile you created,
in every life you touched,
in every heart you awakened.

This is the only immortality that matters —
to live beyond death,
not in monuments of stone,
but in the gentle echoes of love, compassion, and hope
you leave behind.

You are broken somewhere
scattered pieces drifting
breath catching for a moment
just to borrow one more second of life.
And still you go on
still you walk beside life
as if it were an old companion.
You nod where others nod
matching their yes with your yes
half whole, half empty
carrying the weight of hollowness.
In night upon night, in day upon day
you balance the scales
paying with silence
with the left fragments of yourself.
I salute you,
for who else keeps moving like this?
If not good, then who is good?
If not you, then who?

"Waiting to live tomorrow is the greatest folly — live wisely with what you have today; needless worry about the future is pointless."
                   💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞

                  To postpone life for some imagined tomorrow
is the truest kind of foolishness.
Hold today with mindful hands —
worrying for a future yet unseen steals your present.

Inscribed in the palms of his hands
Fortified and secured in the highest
A soul wearied by lies and injustices
And prideful boasts' unceasing sneers
In pain and utter terror now watch
The wind blows, the flood sweeps
And the fire burns, and the wicked pray
To be raptured from their sins and filth
But mocked and prayers turned to curses
And from embittered hearts vile evil flows
Against each other in mutual annihilation
Thus cleansed and good inherits the Earth

Mankind really baffles me, and I’ve never understood.
How some can be so hateful yet others be so good.
DNA I hear you say, it’s all down to the genes.
But surely nurture matters or the lack of it, it seems.
At what age does it manifest, they way we’re going to be.
The good or bad that’s in us, when do we start to see.
Children can be cruel but they have yet to learn.
Do we ignore the warnings, no reason for concern?
Is how we are a lottery, just a toss of a god’s big dice.
One to three your nasty, four to six your nice?
But surely it’s not black and white we’ve all got both inside.
It’s just to me the good in some is what they choose to hide.
I wish I had the answer, but I know I’m very sure.
In this world where evils winning we need to find a cure.