The blurred lines of me
27 July 2015
A glorious sun
Wakes to another day’s warmth
As eyes witness light
Noon fits my footsteps
With precise specks of shadow
That spell tales of none
Afternoon splits me
Crooked body speaks of tear
Between the two realms
Night brings its unrest
As shadows cover the Earth
Hooded beings walk
A gnawing fear pulls
At the strings of crimson dome
Morrows may not rise
It seems time has come
As I watch them slowly fade
The blurred lines of me
The moon stills my heart
From the pain of departure
I will set out firm
Breathtaking poem – and your music selection brings back memories (I grew up listening to a lot of bluegrass and country-western music (much of my family lived in Kentucky, and I was raised in a Texas desert), and Alison Krauss was among my favorites!
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Thank you Stormwise. I grew up on a very large blend of musical choices but the first music I was exposed to was country music aside from Indian music. I wonder why country music was part of the music of my childhood as I grew up in Chennai, India until the age of 9 – not really the place one would expect to find country music 🙂
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Geetha, I don’t know very much about India – and other than what I just finished reading in the Wikipedia entry on Chennai, I also know very little about your hometown – however, if you are in any way an example of what is typical for Chennai, I’m not at all surprised that you would have grown up with country music 🙂 Indian music was also a part of my upbringing – not the Indian music of India, but of Native American Indians; which I would imagine is somewhat different 🙂 With country music, like I said, I also grew up with this; but I fell out of the habit of listening to a lot of the more modern versions of it. The music I like goes back to a time I refer to as ‘the time when a fat old man could get up on stage and sing his own country songs,’ as opposed to a lot of the pop-country that has been circulating since that bygone age.
What other kinds of music do you like to listen to?
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I listen to really very different types of music that range from New age, Trance, chillout to classical asian or western to rock including metal, punk, jazz. I think there is almost no music that I am not willing to listen to at least once although I have my préférences. Some of the préférences are public on my YouTube channel but some on the YouTube channel are private. I would say if the music does not sound totally discordant I would listen to it and appreciate it.
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I can even handle some degrees of discordance in my music … what I don’t like is music that is filled with, or used to promote hate. That being said, if the music itself (not the lyrics) is aggressive, I think that’s just fine. I am probably one of the Offspring’s most dedicated fans, for example; but I am just as happy to listen to Loreena McKennitt or Simon and Garfunkel.
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Yet another common ground 🙂
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Seems like we are finding a fair amount of that with one another – I’m looking forward to seeing how much more we find 🙂
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The music is classical and your words are the most powerful on WP – I have no words for you:)
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Thank you Mihran 🙂
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