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Balveen Kaur Cheema

The Magic Moment
Balveen Kaur Cheema is an educationist, an artist, a poet,
reviewer of course books, editor of a poetry website and a
Away from the chaos I pause before the patio
homemaker. In her childood she shuttled between the
of the last house down the declining trail
cosmopolitan environs of Pune and rural Panjab. Her poems It shines over a small fountain frothing semicircles
are an amalgamation of it all, euphoric, didactic and
in a vast natural pond
humourous.
I cannot but admire the canyon of chaparral
As an undergraduate she was honoured by V.V. Giri, the crowning the rippling waters
Vice President of India and Mrs. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, while the flaming sun seems to be splashing
The First Lady of India. While doing her Post graduation in a chromatic spectrum of the crowning greens
English from the Punjab University she was crowned as a In the translucent wavelets
runner up in a beauty pageant. She has also been a recipient The aqua green waters gracefully lyric over
of being The Favourite Teacher by a local daily. the embedded branches and arched tree trunks
like a lady-in-waiting singing soulful melodies
As the then Co-ordinator for The British Council in her
to hearten her queenship
institute, Balveen has represented India in the World
Olympic Dreams at the British Museum in London in 2011. This magic moment of ethereal sublimity
strokes my heart de-cluttering emotions
She represented and hosted the Duchess of Cornwall's visit at
her institute.

Stairs To Your Soul

O that I were blessed with only one more chance?
I would wrap your frail body and weakened spirits
Life is short, In my arms from the noisome derisions
Make it sweet; Doomed loneliness and wasted self
You braved it all with your virtues of nobility
Keep not all flowers A welcome smile and endless courtesies
for the grave. Honour and dignity were your birthmarks
Engraving it on the tombstones of loving hearts
Decades of selflessness and service to strangers
...Author Mirrored your gentle and Florentine soul
You doctored bodies and healed the scarred emotions
None left your abode without bountiful blessing
Time flew and so did your admired stature
You shrunk into the sheltered corners of silence
But your warmth love and blessings swelled
On visitors walking up the stairs of your soul

@Balveen Kaur Cheema

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