December 09, 2006

Two Poems.... for the mists of an Autumnal Dawn

Arka, this is because I was too lazy to mail.


The Retreat


I've stopped loving you.

Whatever courses through my veins now are aftershocks,

Denied moments of paralysed thoughts,

Unbearably familiar.

Oh, I have stopped.

Waving, wading towards the unreachable horizon of Eternal Belief

When I once perhaps could unite

But now the straining drops of molten wariness

Chase the futile fragments;

My memories float in the shallow pool

Of numb distorted moments of fragmented vision.

Yes, I have stopped it. Finally...



The Partition


My fingers creep towards the door

And unlatches the lock

And then freezes in the distant discord

Of melifluous harmony.

In the roots of my aching bones

Something wake up to call forth

So many dried-up memories

Born again, from the drugged

Hole inside the rusty depths

Of this chaotic vision.


My spirits hover over my head,

Crooning, caressing, craving

The necessity to give in

To shameless, wanton discourses

Of dissected emotions,

Laying them moments apart from

Where I stand, hands frozen

On the doorknob,

Waiting for an entrance

To my divided portions.

8 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:41 PM

    Hey,

    Me first..
    Hmmm, so lots of water hv paaseed by..good good!!

    So howz ur didi's wedding celebration..& yeah yeah ur PATNA trip?? Cool right!!

    Hey, why nt send this song by C Simon to him. It's d best song to make someone spl very confused..really!! Take care!!

    You walked into the party
    Like you were walking onto a yacht
    Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
    Your scarf it was apricot
    You had one eye in the mirror
    As you watched yourself gavotte
    And all the girls dreamed
    That they'd be your partner
    They'd be your partner, and....

    You're so vain
    You probably think this song is about you
    You're so vain
    I'll bet you think this song is about you
    Don't you? Don't you?

    You had me several years ago
    When I was still quite naive
    Well you said that we made such a pretty pair
    And that you would never leave

    But you gave away the things you loved
    And one of them was me
    I had some dreams
    They were clouds in my coffee
    Clouds in my coffee and....

    You're so vain
    You probably think this song is about you
    You're so vain
    I'll bet you think this song is about you
    Don't you? Don't you?

    Well I hear you went up to Saratoga
    And your horse naturally won
    Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
    To see the total eclipse of the sun

    Well, you're where you should be all of the time
    And when you're not you're with
    Some underworld spy
    Or the wife of a close friend
    Wife of a close friend, and....

    You're so vain
    You probably think this song is about you
    You're so vain
    I'll bet you think this song is about you
    Don't you? Don't you?

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  2. Hi!
    Lovely poems, especially the 2nd.

    Came thru Roy's blog, you've got a decent place here :)




    GBU
    Arti

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  3. Roy- OH HO HO HO HO HO!!! This one I've got to send my friends....

    Arti- thank you for going through my place in webworld. Hope to see more of you again.

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  4. Anonymous12:15 AM

    Aww. But brilliant poetry. Never knew Sappho walked among us.*feels humbled*

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  5. GMM- sharse!! this is actually a reaction to CN... the second one esp.

    Btw, Sapphic??

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  6. GMM- sharse!! this is actually a reaction to CN... the second one esp.

    Btw, Sapphic??

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  7. honoured!!
    The first, though, is a little teen-age angst like, and (can't believe I'm saying this) a bit wordy.
    The second is much, much better. Especially the ending.

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  8. arka - thanks, the first one is perhaps a bit stretched I guess... well you know me, i cant really write.

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