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Reactive Data Analysis with Julia in Pluto Notebooks
Tags: Data Analysis, HTML, Data Analytics, Data, Data Science

Top 5 Features

There a many thing to love about coding in Julia with Pluto notebooks. Based on my experience with Pluto this are the 5 features I love most for Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA).

1. Reactive Notebook

A key feature of Pluto is it’s reactive nature. When changing a function or variable, Pluto automatically updates all affected cells. No need the remember which cells to execute and in which order. Pluto does all that for you automagically so you can focus on analyzing data. That’s a huge plus.

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When you execute a cell (by pressing ctrl + enter or shift + enter ) it shows the execution time of that cell. Very handy for code optimization. A cell can also be execute by pressing the little ▶️ button to the lower right of the cell.

2. Interactive Widgets

To enhance the reactive nature of Pluto notebooks even further, there is support for interactive HTML-widgets out-of-the-box. By using widgets, you can minimize the times you needs to change variable values in your code manually.

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Lots of HTML-widgets are supported. To make thing even more easy to use, there is a package — called PlutoUI — which has convenient Julia objects for some of the widgets. Instead of using @bind p html"<input type=range min=1 max=10>" you can use @bind p Slider(1:10) . Here a an example of a combination of HTML-widgets and widgets supported by the PlutoUI package.

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3. Cell Order

In Pluto, you can chose any cell order you like. It is also possible to hide cells. So for your final notebook, you can move helper functions to the end of your notebook and move the interactive data visualizations to the top. That does focus the attention of the reader to the message you want communicate. In more traditional notebooks, the most interesting part for the average reader comes at the end of a notebook.

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4. Pure Julia

A Pluto notebook is stored as pure Julia code. Without output, figures or whatsoever. Just plain Julia code. This is great for version control and comparing source files. I saved the notebook as notebook.jl . In this text file, each notebook cell has a unique identifier. At the and of the file you find the cell order.

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5. Live Docs

Pluto has a live documentation feature. It shows documentation while coding. Can be very helpful! Here’s how it works. No interruption from your workflow, just keep coding :-)
SQL/ Sequel Best Resources
By: Topgyal Tsering
Tags: Data Scientist, Data Analytics, Big Data, Data Science, Sql

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A importância de visualizar resultados, avaliar e melhorar
By: Tainá Salomão
Tags: UX Design, Product Analytics, Behavior Analytics, Data Analytics

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Devops Solutions And Service Provider Company
By: Hridi Shah
Tags: Hadoop, Bigdata, Cloudcomputing, DevOps, Dataanalytics

We can work with your business to advance your DevOps workflow so that your organisation can begin to use the petabytes of data you are collecting. We understand that businesses want reliable, cloud-based applications which will be fast, readily available, simple to use and bug-free. By bridging the gap between software development and IT operations, we will help your business provide a stable and reliable information infrastructure.

Source control

DevOps is a revolutionary way to manage software and efficiently maintain a high level of data security. Through effective source control, we can assist your business in the management of everything from computer programs and large websites, to document changes and collections of information.

Build automation

An important aspect of ensuring your business provides continuous delivery of a system is the incorporation of a build automation stage. This stage sets out how new features are integrated into the source code of your systems. Through automated building and testing, we will ensure any data services work correctly at a technical level.

Repo management

By providing effective repo management we can improve the stability of your systems and reduce the reliance on external repositories. There are multiple benefits including the saving of time and bandwidth, improved performance, increased control and the provision of a central storage area

Test automation

We can provide test automation services to strengthen the incorporation of new digital technologies, which are continuing to grow at a rapid pace. Using our advanced test automation practices we will reduce the time your company needs to spend on manual tasks, increase process speed and provide timely feedback.

Deployment

We can use our vast experience to effectively manage your deployment processes. Our team will provide everything from workflow visualisation tools to business process maps so that everyone on the business understands the intricacies of system management and deployment.
Job Opportunities as a Digital Marketer
By: Kushagra Oberoi
Tags: Digital Advertising, Digital Marketing, Content Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Data Analytics

Digital Space is a wide spectrum that includes lots of roles and responsibilities. It requires a whole team to put together a strategy for taking something online & promoting it. It is not as easy as it sounds.

Digital Advertising: One of the most important aspects of marketing is advertising. The role of an online advertiser includes SEO (Search Engine Optimization) & SEM (Search Engine Marketing). Strategically placing ads and content on websites that get a lot of traction is the main role of an online advertiser.

Source: Google

2. Social Media Manager: The most common way for people to find your brand online is through social media. The role of a manager includes posting appropriate content on each social platform that matches the identity of the platform & maintaining a direct relationship with the audience to build a long-lasting presence.

Source: Search Engine Journal

3. Content Strategist: The role of a content strategist should align with the goals and vision of the brand. Creating content online should reflect the brand’s vision & mission along with the tone that it represents. All the content should be made with a buyer’s persona in mind.

Source: Google

4. Data Analyst: A data analyst should be able to read data in a way that becomes a strategy for the future. Digital marketing produces heaps of data, that data is vital to study and build insights about customers, products, or the brand itself.

Source: Analytico

Digital Marketing is a vast field with a plethora of opportunities waiting to be found.
AI and big data analytics in agritech to feed a growing population
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Farmers, Data Analytics, Agritech, Big Data

Technology as a wide concept. Technological developments made in recent decades are increasing our access to the agricultural sector and are delivering exciting new insights into the dynamic nature of the agricultural area. Agritech is a technological solution for feeding a growing population.

The agriculture sector is one of the most important industries for Indian growth, which means it is also a large employer. Approximately 60 percent of the Indian population works in the industry, contributing around 18 percent to India’s GDP. Now the world started to think about global food security that’s why agritech matters.

Lots of inevitabilities existed in the agricultural industry like an evolving new atmosphere, depletion of water assets, and the potential for enlarged disintegration and loss of profitability because of the onset of remarkable climate conditions. Farmers can screen their yields in a prime manner and be updated in real-time about the perfect time for harvest with the help of Satellites. unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and remote sensors these devices monitor farms for 24 hours per day consistently. Real-time execution of rural Artificial intelligence helps farmers to investigate climate realities, temperature, water utility, and conditions of soil gathered from their farms to settle on informed choices for business planning and decision making, etc.

big data analytics is revolutionizing the agricultural sector in no of ways like Monitoring natural trends. Advanced supply tracking, Risk assessment, Ideal crops and consumer expectation, Data-driven industry, and Better supply chain management. artificial intelligence revolutionizing the agricultural sector basically through Predictive analytics and precision farming, Risk management, and Pest control.

A single technology platform guarantee to increase farmers’ income and hence their buying and selling capacity as well. Funds can allocate the right manner will help the farmers to form their own producer companies or organizations that make profitable value to them. At the same time agritech trying to establish a digital agricultural supply chain. Stakeholders are bringing onto this single technological platform. farmers can expand their buyer base, reach an exceptional number of consumers, and in this way they can increase their profitability as well. Incorporation of technology in agriculture and can help individual and small farmers along with assisting the entire value chain while benefiting contract farmers, corporates, R&D institutions, funding agencies, trade bodies, FPO’s and Government bodies as well.

The future of agritech is immeasurable. Major benefits from agritech not only for various Agriculture stakeholders but positively for small farmers and laborers, transforming them into farm owners as well. Definitely agritech changing the face of agriculture.
Querying a SSAS tabular model using R or Python
By: Allen Tseng
Tags: Analysis Services, Python, Rlang, Data Analytics, Dax

One of the companies I’ve worked at uses the SQL Server stack to implement a data warehouse and multiple reusable tabular data models. The typical method my ex-colleagues and myself use to interact with the model to get our data is through Excel, using a live connection to the server and selecting the relevant model(s). This method is great at handling smaller load queries and can handle most of your daily inquiries coming from management.

However, as a data analyst or scientist, you might want to query a large amount of data at a low level of granularity and Excel struggles at this — excel becomes slow and sluggish, often times crashing.

Additionally, you might want to wrangle with and explore the data, add additional features, and apply algorithms over it, which is much quicker and easier thanks to the many data-focused libraries available in Python and R.

Another issue is that work that is done in Excel is neither reproducible, scalable, or fit for production. Having faced these struggles, I looked for better ways to interact with the model. As an analyst, I wanted to solve how to do this using the two most popular and favorite languages in data analytics today: Python and R.

To query a tabular model built in SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services), instead of writing a SQL query, you would either write a DAX query, which I covered in my previous post, if it is a tabular model or an MDX query if it is a multi-dimensional OLAP model.

Below, I will show you how to connect to an SSAS model using Python and R. You can use the below code against your own SSAS model — just edit the server name, model name, and columns, then paste your DAX or MDX query into the dax_query string variable (use escape characters where necessary) and run it in your notebook 🙂

To connect using Python:

You need two libraries:

1) Pyadomd

2) Pandas

To connect using R:

You need the below libraries:

1) olapR * — you will need to use the Microsoft R Client to run this. To change R versions, follow this guide.

2) tidyverse (optional, recommended for further data wrangling)

3) janitor (optional, recommended for further data wrangling)

Once you’ve gotten the dataset into R or Python as a data frame, your possibilities are limitless.

Happy analyzing.

-Allen
Data Science Certification in Singapore
By: Jcube Institute
Tags: Data Science, Python Programming, Data Analytics, Machine Learning

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Cancel Culture
By: John Edward Marks, Jem
Tags: Blue Insights, John Keats, Cancel Culture, Genocide, Poetry

Cancel Culture

indianspictures.blogspot.com — Sioux Indian Photographs and Images

His headstone verses writ in water

Draw the eye unto the fact of death

Nothing left, bereft. Except the words.

Lichen lines that love-and-only-love remembers.

All we knew was the deepest blue of

This good man’s eyes. It is written in blood

That mortal love will always end like this. Time

weathers the stonemason’s art to a flat palimpsest

of hieroglyphics which resemble not the zest

or pumping blood of those lost defenders of Constantinople.

Stones do not record the passing

Shadows of a glance, a look.

Such kisses that we all desire

Eulogise our tear-filled eyes as we stare into winter

Fires, and disguise is less than futile,

As we gather all the force that we can muster

To face this meeting with our fates on All Souls’ Day.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
By: Akhtar Mehmood
Tags: Blue Insights, Life, Illumination, Poetry On Medium, Poetry

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash

When I called you from the hospital bed late last night,

And told you that I had a heart attack,

You said casually, “Oh, I didn’t know you had a heart!”

We all fancy twinkling stars on a moonless night.

And pin all kinds of romantic gestures, hopes and dreams onto them.

But up close, these are just ugly rocks, spewing dust & molten ash.

While I had fallen in love with a girl whose laughter,

Had once echoed in the lecture hall of our university,

Like ice cubes jingling in a tall glass.

Like a star-struck kid, I had fallen in love with a fantasy,

That had lit up my otherwise dark & barren life.
Reaching
By: Patrick M. Ohana
Tags: Muse, Blue Insights, Haiku, Love, Poetry

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Love Will Set You Free
By: Akhtar Mehmood
Tags: Blue Insights, Love, Illumination, Poetry On Medium, Poetry

Love Will Set You Free

Photo by Aiony Haust on Unsplash

An unloved soul is a wound on the consciousness of a man.

That will not heal with bandages of lust, money, or fame.

Nor with the vanity of the number of books,

Published on the-best sellers’ list.

Up until a woman walks in and he realizes,

That he had been chasing ghosts all his life.

Then, she grabs his face with both of her hands and kisses him.

And he becomes a summer inside a winter.

And sparrows of joy take a flight to the heavens.

I am free, I am free, as he yells.

Dancing naked in the streets for the first time.
Hiatus Inconditus
By: Melissa Wilson
Tags: Coming Back, Blue Insights, Hiatus, Life Sparkles, Reaching Out

Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash

Hiatus Inconditus

It’s been a while, I went away, but you’re still on my mind

It seems like my last creative encounter

was cemented in a long lost time!

Not a choice, hardly planned, what else can I say

Sometimes living life itself

Can get into the way.
Stage, Strings, and Sound
By: Raj Modi
Tags: Music, Violin, Blue Insights, Stage, Poetry

From a podium, she drew the flow

The Strings uttered a Gentle rhyme

I Fiddled her thoughts so smooth,

A chaotic rhythm shivered me for a while

I wish that again

Paint me detailed with your baton

Like the world desire in the museum

Flash on you and the hall cries

Behind the wings, comfort vibes

I miss that again, I wish you again
She Walked On
By: Gurpreet Dhariwal
Tags: Courage, Blue Insights, Trusting God, Micropoetry, Strong Women

She Walked On

Sketch by Author

He did leave her once again

She wasn’t even counting on him this time

He was successful in making a fool

But of himself

She knew he would repeat the past

But she didn’t pay for his sins

God let her decide for herself

And she chose herself this time

She walked on
ʎlᴉɯɐℲ
By: Talaya Mccain
Tags: Self Improvement, Blue Insights, Self Love, Self-awareness, Poetry

The WOW Signal

There were several persons sitting at the table.

Changed, at least, 8 times over.

Wet from heads to toes with challenge and despair.

Yet, they’ve managed to come together here.

Hands speaking in languages that all lovers know.

Contagious smiles panning over their growth.

There is style and charisma in their cups.

They grip the handles and swallow them up.

They draw in closer and give out a few shouts.

I would give anything to know; what they once argued about?

There were several persons sitting at the table.

Changed, at least, 8 times over.
The New Beginning
By: Priyanka Srivastava
Tags: Reflections, Blue Insights, Beginner, Writing, Poetry

Photo by Farrinni on Unsplash

The New Beginning

now that I have learnt to celebrate silence

and mint poem out of my sadness.

don’t ask me when I will end the story

because each day I write a new beginning.
That Girl
By: Priyanka Srivastava
Tags: Blue Insights, Pandemic, Life, This Happened To Me, Writing

Photo by gryffyn m on Unsplash

That Girl

It doesn't feel weird anymore to spend holidays at home. I have been doing this since the past one year. It’s been a year since I have met my family in India. Now video call has become a new normal for me. They don’t get irritated by my calls. As if they know I am trying to fill in the gap with words. We all have become words and we are sharing stories with each other, my parents don’t write but they always have a story for me. I listen to them and fill pages in my book. I have again become a child who needs story to food her heart or maybe I never grew up. I am still that girl who loves to be lost.
It Happened
By: Patrick M. Ohana
Tags: Coffee, Muse, Noon, Blue Insights, Poetry

It Happened

It happened just before noon

I was preparing my first coffee

It’s the best one of the day

though I also like the one I take sometimes at 2 a.m.

to keep writing about my muse

She’s nocturnal living on the freaking Moon

I can’t write anything without mentioning her

This story has nothing to do with her

yet here she is in all her glory

my beautiful I-love-her muse

always lurking in my head and my blood pump

So I was having my coffee with a fine keto bar

the cinnamon and pecans kind

my true favourite of all such nutritious bars

it almost tastes as good as my muse

Here she goes again

there’s no way out

not that I would want to

I love my muse

perhaps too much

Is she an obsession

Perhaps

I haven’t tallied the figures yet

and I don’t believe in obsessions

She’s just what my brain likes and adopted

apparently until my bitter end

So I was finishing my coffee

when I realized that I should be having tea

green tea to be precise

I’ve neglected this old friend

and it’s great with peppermint

my second favourite plant

after cannabis no less

But good tea takes time

It has to rest in the boiled water

and release all its nutrients

but by the time it’s ready

it’s cold and you might as well

have iced tea

I thus prefer my coffee

since it’s readily in my mouth

within a minute

It happened just before noon

when my muse was busy with her life

Patrick M. Ohana
My Love, Where Art Thou?
By: Akhtar Mehmood
Tags: Blue Insights, Life, Love, Poetry On Medium, Poetry

My Love, Where Art Thou?

Photo by Alex Chernenko on Unsplash

My love for you still expands like the vast sky at night.

With my tears glittering like the stars on the its dark canvas.

The wind would rush through your silky long hair, long ago,

And your kisses adorned my face like fresh rose petals.

And a thousand doors would appear in my heart,

Each one opening to a new world, full of ecstasy

Your fragrant breath mingled with mine and gave oxygen

To the lonely soul that once lived in a solitary hut.

Where a tree of sorrow had grown up, right through the middle.

But your love, untangled its suffocating tentacles around me.

Now I sit alone in the garden where we used to talk for hours.

Among the downed cherry blossoms in a snowstorm,

Imagining your laughter, like ice jingling in a tall glass.
Arcadia
By: David Rudder
Tags: Arcadia, Pastoral, Blue Insights, Poetry, Spirituality

Simple and unsophisticated

an idyllic pastoral life

happy in beautiful existence

free from pain trouble and strife.

In the cradle of pastoral peace

beauty and seclusion abound

simple connections with nature

where peace on earth is found.

Is this earthly nirvana

or a place called Utopia

where troubles evaporate

in the cool hills of Arcadia?

Lost in the land of serenity

surrounded by quietness and peace

is this a dream I aspire to

in a place in ancient Greece.

The myth turns to evaporation

dissolves before my eyes

peace goodwill and tranquility

can turn to danger in disguise.

Arcadia is a cautionary reminder

of the transitory nature of living

and the inevitability of death

and gracious gift of giving.

In the historic quietness

as dew settles on the past

and the sun heralds another day

this day won’t be the last.

The magic of the moments

transcends equivocal contemplation

left out in the melting rain

reaching with deliberation.

©

David Rudder

27th December 2020

Thanks for reading.
Should You Pick up Calls From Toxic People at Christmas?
By: Smillew Rahcuef
Tags: Christmas, Blue Insights, Self Love, Relationships, Toxic Relationships

Should You Pick up Calls From Toxic People at Christmas?

This could be Jeanine by Francesca Zama on Pexels

Yesterday my good friend Jeanine phoned to wish me a fantastic time at Christmas. I luckily missed her call and took special extra care not to ring back, going as far as deleting the missed call from my history. As much as that red-colored reminder can be useful at times, it’s also a free ticket for GuiltLand, a journey that I’m not willing to take.

Today, she tried again. I saw the call but found the strength to mute the ringtone. And since I’m in a Christmas spirit, I did a little “Let it ring, let it ring, and ring” dance. In the style of Boyz II Men on their album Christmas interpretations, to be precise.

Jeanine is one of the recurrent dramatis personae in my life’s play. I wish she had left at the end of the first act, as promised. But Jeanine is a bit of an off-Broadway actress, and she decided to stick around for some more lines and screen time.

True enough, that’s my life’s play, and I should be the one to decide who gets to be on stage and when. Maybe I did a poor job as a stage director so far. Maybe Jeanine deserved to get some more lines if only to teach me a lesson. And maybe she still deserved some more for me to understand the said lesson.

But now, I’m good.

When it comes to picking-up calls from toxic people at Christmas, my answer is a strong no-no.
Forgotten Identity
By: Anushka Choudhary
Tags: Identity, Lost, Blue Insights, Poetry

Photo by Chris Chan on Unsplash

These people walk without noticing,

the shadows of my feet.

They will not feel my disappearance,

nor will they ever miss my presence.

The streets will find new footprints,

that bury mine beneath theirs.

And the flowers and trees,

will find newer faces to look at.

Will my birds and dogs remember me

when I don’t show up?

Or will they find,

other faces that look the same as mine?

My existence is transient,

yet I had hoped to leave a mark.

But on the day of my departure,

I see unfamiliar faces walk in.

Ready to take my vacant spot,

and wipe my legacy forever.
I am so ordinary!
By: Anuj Gautam
Tags: Poem, Blue Insights, Life, Self, Poetry

I am so ordinary!

Shall I tell you, my story,

When I was a boy,

Maa told me I was extraordinary,

I was the best boy,

She told me that for sure many times,

When I was in school,

A teacher told me I was a gem,

I was the best student,

She told me that for sure many times,

When I was in college.

Friends told me I had a talent,

I was the best pal,

They told me that for sure much time,

And then one day it all comes to an end,

I was no more a boy,

I entered the man’s world,

In days, I was told I was so ordinary,

I was no more the best,

Neither did I had the talent nor did I have pals,

I was so alone and

For all, I was made to believe,

I was so ordinary,

I lost my grace,

I lost my confidence,

I was so ordinary,

I was so frightened,

I wished I can go back to my ma,

At least she will still tell me,

My boy is still extraordinary!!

But for true

I am so ordinary!!

I am so so.. ordinary!!
Happy Christmas and New Year
By: David Rudder
Tags: Christmas, Blue Insights, Love, New Year, Poetry

Happy Christmas and New Year

Photo by Eugene Zhyvchik on Unsplash

This year I’ll make it short and sweet

no need to tweet to make it neat

health and happiness to those I miss

wrapped up in a Christmas wish.

I wish my friends and family

a happy Christmas and New Year

I send love and good wishes to you all

and to all of those, that you hold dear.

Love from,

David Rudder

25th December 2020

Copyright reserved.

And a special thank you to my many dear Global Medium friends…

I look forward to reading more of your amazing and inspiring words… into a 2021 World that I pray is full of hope, health, and love…
When Love Calls, You Better Listen
By: Akhtar Mehmood
Tags: Blue Insights, Poems On Medium, Humor, Illumination, Poetry

When Love Calls, You Better Listen

Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash

I share my apartment with many ghosts of you.

Who live in the darkened corner of my soul now.

Some rise from the memories of us together,

Having a Coney’s Cone ice-cream on Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, NY.

While others slip through the hole in my heart.

The one you made, when you kissed me goodbye for the last time.

In the dead of the night they start to whisper,

The untold stories of us together,

And what heavenly pleasures waited for me,

Had I loved you more, with all my heart & soul.

And they demand so many answers from me now.

Why did I not call you for a month after you left?

And why the hell I spent so much time,

Trying to get followers on Medium?

All the while you waited for me with kisses sweet,

And pockets full of gold intentions,

And a heart full of Love.

And why did I not know that my poetry sucked terribly Anyways?

And paid the price for losing your precious love.
Storytelling Arc 1, Dreamstorm
By: Eric J Davis
Tags: Books, Fantasy, Blue Insights, Storytelling, Fiction

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The Lone Pigeon
By: Akhtar Mehmood
Tags: Blue Insights, Love, Illumination, Poetry On Medium, Poetry

The Lone Pigeon

Photo by Julian Yu on Unsplash

In your universe, there are a thousand pair of eyes

But none can see me, although I am standing

Right underneath your balcony for centuries now

And haven’t blinked once for the fear of missing your sight

Just in case, if you appear in the window for a moment

Others have plundered your happiness like uncontrolled rioters

But I wait for a grain of your kindness

Like a lone pigeon underneath your tree.
The Rain on Christmas Morning
By: Victoria Ponte
Tags: Hope, Christmas, Blue Insights, Poetry On Medium, Poetry

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The Shadow of a Lonely Moon
By: Akhtar Mehmood
Tags: Blue Insights, Poems On Medium, Love, Illumination, Poetry

Missing a love I once felt (or did I?)

Photo by Александр Ляхнович on Unsplash

Diminished, but not without a raging fight,

I invoke delusions throughout the day to get through it,

Starting with my morning coffee — the bitter kiss.

Though longing for her soft touch on my naked skin,

Remains an aching pain no amount of whiskey could diminish.

The yellow dancing flame of the distant oil rig on moonless nights,

Visible through my 10th-floor apartment window,

Appears to have distilled all my delusions into a crisp morning-cold-air reality.

A reality more believable than the lonely moon and the menacing stars,

Deep down I know that her Love will always be dancing in my heart,

Just like that yellow flame, day and night,

That seduces me from an uncoverable distance,

And the one, no ferocious wind will ever snuff out.
A Moment for Life
By: Arundhati Thakur
Tags: Morning Routines, Blue Insights, Relationships, Love, Poetry

These tiny freckles on your cheeks and

the bright morning sun slapping your face,

I could look at your bloated face for hours.

Soft, subtle, shinning like my diamond ring,

and foolishly oblivious of the waking hour,

mundane mornings turning into musings.

How long till I wonder myself back to sleep,

and you brush my soft hair off your lips?

and we rush to our humdrum routines.

If time stopped every morning for a while,

If I could keep you in and all worries out,

how less we’d exist and how more we’d live!

If only I could have this moment for life!
Falling in Love With a Stranger
By: Øivind H. Solheim
Tags: Longing, Blue Insights, Heart, Love, Strangers

Yesterday my heart

was a small boat

in a distant pond

in the green forest

Yesterday

You were an unknown

and I was

a stranger to you

Then you wrote

those friendly words

You told me about

the longing of the heart

Do you feel the yearning

Are you a stranger now

or are you falling in love

with a stranger?
Ocean Has Life
Tags: Marine, Blue Insights, Poems On Medium, Sea, Poetry

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Christmas Gift
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Christmas, Blue Insights, Life, Positive Thinking, Poetry

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Complain
By: Rita Duponty
Tags: Self Improvement, Blue Insights, Poems On Medium, Life, Poetry On Medium

Stop complaining.

Look and see.

Life’s not perfect,

we both can agree.

It doesn’t have to

mean defeat…

Look down.

Do you have two

feet?

Run fast now, and

listen to your heart-

beat.

Count the fingers on

your hand. Elementary

though it may sound,

it is wonderful and

grand.

In the kitchen, smell the

aroma of freshly baked

bread. Such a gift you’ve

been given that needs to

be said.

Complain all you want

these are the facts!

Be grateful. That’s the

mindset that attracts.

© Rita Duponty, 2020
Full of Love, Happiness in the Lap of Laziness
By: Ruchi Thalwal
Tags: Cultural Prompt, Blue Insights, Love, Poetry, Writing Prompts

The transition of the pleasant weather

to bone stabbing wintry mornings

The natural icy cold water in the taps

The needle poking winds piercing the skin

The haze, the blurriness of fog

The chilly winds anesthetizing the nose

The war of warm winds from the mouth

The sneakiness of cold foot touching the warm one

The naughtiness of playing with frosty limbs

December means enjoying the warmth of the sun

Lying on the terrace,

Greedily soaking the sun’s radiance

Relishing the oranges dipped in salt

The get-together of the family

in the lethargic warm noon

At night inside the cozy quilt

The laziness creeping

the excuse for not waking up early

The short days with the early sunset

lazing around in the sun

December goes so quickly in all its naughtiness

A child springs once again

In the body of an adult

Playing and laughing at the silliness

Not shying away from the usual or uniqueness

Around the dazzling festive season of Christmas,

The sparkling beauty of houses and markets

The aroma of the delicious snacks

Salivating and getting ready for lip-smacking meals

Gulping down greedily

As and when they arrive

The charm of December

does not yet wear out

The New year around the corner

comes hanging at the tail of Christmas

Replenishing the old tattered, broken promises

Thankfully, I never made those to myself

The forceful waking till the midnight

Gone are the days

when I used to stay up

Enjoying as the day or the year comes

Renewing itself

Rejuvenation in its own shining bask!
When Life Awaits to Hug
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Blue Insights, Relationships, Life, Love, Poetry

You can cry over your beloved’s death,

Or cherish the beautiful moments of life with them.

If you return to the past, you’ll be trapped in time,

But if you try to forget, the future will embrace you.

A shooting star can never shine back,

For it has lived its life,

And served its purpose,

By lightening other’s lives.

A withered flower cannot bloom again,

But makes way for the new buds to rise,

And none can stop them from doing so,

For there are rules of nature to follow.

We must be happy for tomorrow,

Because yesterday was a blissful memory,

Wipe off your tears and wear that smile again,

For the life of yours is waiting to love you.
The Wind Surfer
By: Akhtar Mehmood
Tags: Blue Insights, Love, Illumination, Poetry On Medium, Poetry

A story about power of love

Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash

Tires blown, stuck in the Kill Zone.

M249 bullets slamming against the armored car.

Sparks flying off the windshield, like a kaleidoscope of butterflies.

I close my eyes and savor each burst like a burst of short fantasies,

In each fantasy, you and I live forever — kissing in bright neon lights.

But the rivers of blood spilling from sad, stony gargoyle eyes,

Won’t drown the machine gunners.

Too tired to fight now, I put my guns down.

Focus on the mission, not on pain — they always said.

But pain is everything, and everything is pain.

I once saved a tiny cat in a hailstorm.

She nuzzles her face softly against my cheeks now.

So let’s get high in my final moments to,

The sound of the roaring seas, to the touch of the morning breeze.

To the sway of the luscious hips, to the quivering of the hot lips.

To the hearts I broke, to the bodies I stroked.

Open your doors and step outside, brother.

Bullets don’t kill, but words do.

And the only dead are the unloved ones.
Without Limits
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Life Lessons, Blue Insights, Relationships, Love, Poetry

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In the house of the rising sun
By: John Edward Marks, Jem
Tags: Sun, Blue Insights, Futility, Journey, Poetry

Photo by Casia Charlie on Pexels.com

Let’s away to the blue mountains

To the elegiac music of loss when

the sun above us burns the mists away

as we walk into the valley of youth.

Today, I will walk the blue mountains of forgetting,

Just a wall above the far-horizons of delight,

they’re no closer after five days of tramping the fields;

for five days I kept going whilst knowing the futility

in every pore, I just keep going and going.

When the sun turns red behind me

I stop for food or drink or to take a piss

And my shadow casts a shadow on the far-horizon

The fire I lit in the darkness dies to ashes

I tune in to the stars and dream of time’s denial

In the black hole of my own making.

And my legs shake and shake with the tiredness of it all

But I choose not to fall upon my face

But summon up the grace to sing about the journey

To the blue mountains — the mountains in the distance —

where the sun rises from a sea of ​​grasses to mark

the start of just another holy day.
The Empty Page
By: Priyanka Srivastava
Tags: Blue Insights, Pandemic, This Happened To Me, Writing, Poetry

Photo by Aurélien Lemasson-Théobald on Unsplash

The Empty Page

In my dictionary

I have renamed December

as a longing which can’t

be explained.

In other words

I have left the page blank.
The Gift I Truly Want
By: Tima Loku
Tags: Blue Insights, Gifts, Love, Intimacy, Poetry

The Gift I Truly Want

Photo by Chad Madden on Unsplash

this season I want tender things

like the comfort of you and me

and nobody else

I want tender things

that could lull me to sleep

no hurry, no bright lights

some silence would do

I want to hear your heartbeat

I want gifts that cannot be wrapped

or touched or given or taken

I want gifts all-encompassing

unbreakable in oneness

like this miraculous presence

between you and me

I want to speak in heartbeats
Winter Dawn
By: Aiyanah Rose
Tags: Winter, Rebirth, Awakening, Blue Insights, Spirituality

Winter Dawn

Photo by Aiyanah Rose

Shades of gray amidst the haze

Monochrome tones bending shadows between the light

Embracing the night

Chasing the day away

Children awakened by the moon

In tune

Ready to dance, entranced by stars like fireflies flittering through empty fields

No longer afraid of the dark

The longest fête lingers on till the latish dawn

Driving fears away

To betray

The chains that bind the mind in the prison of discontent

Morning sun vanquishing obstinate dark

The tribes reborn to no longer mourn

Spirits revived

Celestial tide

Awaiting the empyreal winter Truth

Photo and verse ©️ 2020 Aiyanah Rose
Free
By: Patrick M. Ohana
Tags: Blue Insights, Haiku, Irony, AI, Poetry

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Addicted
By: Chetna Jai
Tags: Blue Insights, Silence, Writer, Life, Poetry

I’m addicted

A year of peace, and quiet

A year of loneliness and isolation

The joy in missing out

I’m addicted

A year of silence and seclusion

A year of separation and segregation

The joy in calling it out

I’m addicted

I’m high and euphoric,

I’m happy and content,

My mind, blown

Is it godsend

I’m addicted

I’m flying too high, I’m tripping,

Paranoia is setting in,

My mind, mortified

Is it time to get sober and clean

I’m addicted

It’s okay, it’s allowed,

What will happen

If next year is a bailout

Must I find a new shout out

I’m addicted

I don’t want it to stop,

Am I too dependent

Is there a balance

Is it one or the other

I’m addicted

Silence or sound

I like living in my head,

But if I wander

I risk drowning out my temper
Muse’s Mouth
By: Patrick M. Ohana
Tags: Muse, Blue Insights, Mouth, Love, Poetry

Photo by amieds92 on PxHere

Muse’s Mouth

When she sees me near her

She knows I want to kiss her

It’s a given from the get-go

It always tends to begin so

My muse’s mouth demands

All the attention she lands

As I succumb to its redness

In sync with my mid-blueness

Small mouth little lips big smile

I want to keep her tongue while

I swallow everything she’s got

Thinking about what life is not

Her biting teeth are gentle

On my skin with my mental

State slipping into quasi

Happiness verging on saucy

I love you dearest muse

But this is not the news

That I will always love you

I’m not sure that you knew

Patrick M. Ohana
The Hands of My Muse
By: Patrick M. Ohana
Tags: Hands, Muse, Blue Insights, Shakespeare, Poetry

Photo by Devanath on Pixabay

The Hands of My Muse

Can you give me a hand, my muse, my love?

It seems that I cannot see straight anymore.

I need to kiss your hands for the right words.

Please send me a photograph of them both.

Everything else I possess seems to fail.

I type your words, my words, our words and yet

They only come out in sonnet form sans

Any rhyming scheme, you’d think I became

A free verse poet when Shakespeare is it

Almost always for me and you as well.

Methinks the Bard would understand my claim

Having written all there is about love.

Nonetheless I have to confess hereby

My love for you doth top even Hamlet.

Patrick M. Ohana
Politics
By: Moni Vazquez
Tags: Short Read, Blue Insights, Lies, Poetry, Politics

Politics

Photo by Taras Chernus on Unsplash

One lie. That’s how it starts,

A downhill roll, an avalanche pregnant with picked up debris.

Just one. An open door for winds to kiss hurricanes,

swirling loose ends into air.

One lie. For lies are never lonely.
This is a truth Ruchi!
By: James G Brennan
Tags: Oceans, Environment, Life Lessons, Blue Insights, Poetry

This is a truth Ruchi! I witness it all the time living on the beach. In answer to the sea getting back at us, it does, jellyfish are taking over the overfished seas around the world, holidaymakers are suffering more and more, I get stung many many times even though I’m involved with beach cleanups, blah blah, fate has gone passed caring. I love this piece Ruchi it’s very close to my heart. Thank you! Always. J. 🙏✨✨🙏☘☘
Magic Comes When You’re Not Ready
By: Louise Foerster
Tags: Books, Magic, Blue Insights, Storytelling, Reading

Magic Comes When You’re Not Ready

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

In the middle of an ordinary day, tucked in soft sheets and scratchy blankets,

Waiting for sleepy, for dreams that come with thrilling surprise,

The story takes a sudden turn, a plummet and crash, or flash of light

That startles reader into awake and needing to know what comes next.

Hands drop book, fumble the pages, but grit and determination

Open drooping eyes, take deep breath, and forge ahead into magic

Not knowing what’s coming next and loving the delight

Of not knowing, of waiting to see what happens next.

Only the storyteller knows for sure what happens next —

And the luckiest among us does not know until the magic bops us

On the head and whispers “what if…?” and we can’t resist

Following that tendril of possibility to see where it takes us.

Reader and writer are united in that magic, never prepared

For that sudden turn, that sharp exchange, that broken heart

Which tells the truth for the first time and flips the story on its head

In a way no one ever saw coming and thrills at magic shimmering

On the page, transferred to mind and heart to wreak havoc

With all that was expected, presumed, and ordinary.

This is why there are soft sheets and scratchy blankets to keep us

Wide open for night magic and wonders yet to come.
Letter To The Future Self
By: Suntonu Bhadra
Tags: Future, Blue Insights, Self, Fiction, Digital Life

Hello Self,

As you are viewing the words, I am guessing you are just fine. Whether the letter is in physical form or digital bits, I don’t know; but I believe you haven’t forgotten me altogether.

I see you have wrinkles outside, I guess inside too. What happened, tell me? Are you feeling comfortable in your current state? Happy? Sorrow surrounding you! Tell me.

You know, I can’t talk to my past. So, I decided to write a letter to you, my Future Self. The words might surprise you; your future soul might disapprove of the emotions. But I don’t care, as my words scribbled here from the heart. How is your heart condition? Metaphorically! Physically! Is it clogged, as I had assumed?

Is it clogged with bitterness, pains, and obstacles!

Is it clogged with the nicotine drove chemical dirt! I warned you so.

Do you still write? Or do you think of writing?

Do you even look at a canvas and wonder how to put layers of color on the palette? Scribbling here and there, and forgetting about the words, is it still the case for you! I wonder.

Does your heart still connect to the dots that you’ve lost in ages? Do you still believe in humanity or kindness! Ah, I see, you are connected to chains now, brain cells getting nutrition from the artificial life-savers. Can you taste the deliciousness like before? The fruits and the tea!

Do you encounter love? Are you loved still?

It seems like you have lost your consciousness. Can’t you recall me, your past? Oh, probably you are caged inside your delirium-lusted mind, counting hours and hours!

You tell me.

I’m already dead to the time until you meet me in the dust.

Cheers to the time you still have!

Congratulations that you’ve made it so far.

Happy consciousness, future.

Regards,

Your Past.

Suntonu Bhadra ▪ December, 2020
Christmas from Afar
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Christmas, Blue Insights, Life, Positive Thinking, Poetry

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Vacuous
By: Patrick M. Ohana
Tags: Blank, Blue Insights, Haiku, AI, Poetry

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