whether anything fits the bill
the coyote blue sky
the quilt cover of clouds
the verdant velvety greens
the squirreling pathway
the fallen frizzled leaf
Sometimes a story
of human deprivation
callous cruel catalytic
strikes hard
like a water filled balloon
settles somewhere deep
rattling raking rocking
but doesn't evoke the need
to regurgitate
in cadence or concern
It's much much later
only when my own
peeves dredge up
from somewhere inside
that those concentric gibberish
groove in circles
rounder and rounder
deeper and deeper
darker and darker
cluttered
labyranthine
that the groans
seek word
but never enough
but never so satiating
to empty me out
like a vacated room
or a deserted desolate citadel
where once lit up .... joyous jugglery
And sometimes
it's just nothing
merely
gliding by
in Metro
or an open window
of a rickety coach or cab
the wind swishing past
caressing chiffony
crooning humming murmuring
fragrances
wistful woeful icy whimpering
remembrances
yet not quite there
Or just a pair of crows cawing
bickering over a squishy piece of
pedigree
Nothing fits the bill
nothing
or perhaps
everything
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There is cruelty and beauty in this world and it is wistful how your imagination flies and lightly falls, trying to make sense of it all.
ReplyDeleteThanks Penelope
ReplyDeleteIt can be overwhelming to process all the confusion in the world. I love the phrase "the squirreling pathway".
ReplyDeleteYes. I created a verb out of a noun. Does that make it wrong or a new beginning.
DeleteYes, I'd say that's the stuff of poetry – and also of life ... which is the stuff of poetry./
ReplyDeleteThanks Rosemary for understanding me.
DeleteMy process.
Re-reading, I love this all over again, every detail – and realise I forgot to say, last time, how much I Iove it!
DeleteIt's very difficult to give words to feelings. In our Hindusthani Classical Music the use of lyrics in composition is very less because where emotions play words fail.
DeleteThanks so much for your appreciation. It means a lot to me.
Thanks Rommy
ReplyDeleteThat's the paradox I'm working on. Love it. Nothing is everything.
ReplyDeleteTrue Colleen.
DeleteYou allowed the reader access into a place deep inside your processes ... a great write!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Helen. Sometimes it is indescribable.
DeleteI liked this read, "Fitting the bill" is hard to do exactly. But we can try.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite stanza was the "merely gliding by in Metro or an open window of a rickety coach or cab the wind swishing past caressing chiffony crooning humming murmuring fragrances wistful woeful icy whimpering remembrances yet not quite there."
Lots of time to meditate when riding in the rickety ("rickshaw" my way of saying). The last time I rode one was in the Caribbean some place but I can't remember where. We did see some in India, Kochi had plenty, lots of tourists helped.
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Thanks Jim for the elaborate comment. My mind wanders whenever I am in a moving vehicle. That is why I don't like driving.. My focus wavers and musings take over.
ReplyDeleteI like "chiffony."
ReplyDeleteI like it too.
DeleteI like the ambiguity (and freedom) of the last stanza. "Nothing fits the bill / nothing / or perhaps / everything". I love any thought, poem, story... that allows the one experiencing some choice.
ReplyDeleteIt's difficult to dissociate the particular thought which compels to write.
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