To where I will bloom
10 January 2016
The rain fell softly
Upon brown desert landscapes
Where sand had rusted
The wind howled on bleak
Echoing through rocky peaks
Time’s grey witnesses
Beyond yellow stretched
Between grey peaks green ravines
The light hid in play
A journey inward
Where barren neighboured the lush
Reflected outward
Inside these valleys
Surrounding peaks bring to eyes
Moist loss of today
Whisper to me feats
In the mind’s eye that listens
Bravado a must
I will bid you tales
When tomorrows’ letters spell
New recollections
There was a road spent
In travel to chances dreamt
Under moonlit skies
This ride has begun
A long and dusty road blinks
Withering in sun
We walk oft alone
When butchers cut the pieces
They square them smallest
When all else has failed
What more to rid now these lands?
Only my hopes’ pearls
Shimmering presence
Between two worlds I flicker
A ghost of myself
Fold tight the napkin
We are all going somewhere
You might follow soon
Once on other side
Remember me by the touch
Of hidden insights
Now this tired flame
Dilates and shrinks as I sail
To where I will bloom
Animated pictures courtesy fastcodesign.com and thecreatorsproject.vice.com
Going somewhere – Abel Korzeniowski
Flying with whales – Abel Korzeniowski
Courtesy wallpaperscraft.com
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Wonderful imagery. Amit picked out my favourites too
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Thank you Derrick. I loved the flowers on your page and the choice of 2 cellos is perfect. They are really amazing musicians and should revive efficiently the interest in classical music within the youth
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Thank you, Geetha. I am listening to Arvo Part at the moment. That’s pretty good too
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Yes it is fantastic. I put a few of Arvo Pärt compositions with my other poem “The bearer of Truth extinguishes fear”
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Thanks
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Captivating! I love the blooming flower and my favorite metaphor has to be the rusted sand.
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Thank you Dajena. I loved the flower too, it is hypnotic. My garden is full of flowers this time of the year which explains the mood 🙂 The rusted sand is by reference to certain parts of the desert here where the sand looks reddish and with the rain forming potholes, it looks like a part of a rusted iron door or something else depending on the way it is raining.
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The beginning and the end took my breath away… specially the rain on rusty sands and the howling wind through grey rocks of time… brilliant!
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Thank you Amit. There are rocky mountains in Fujairah, an Emirate in UAE where all looks grey and when you are in the mountains at night some winters the wind howls so when there are storms
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a great place to be for sure!
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Yes, quite thrilling 🙂
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Fantastic! The subject and your craft! Thank you, Geeta!
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Thank you Kunal !
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Pleasure’s mine!
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So beautifully written! And you have used an amazing image! 🙂
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Thank you so much and sorry but your comment was spammed by WordPress automatic spamming monster called Akismet it seems. I just saw it now by coincidence in the spam folder and retrieved it.
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No problems, Geetha.
WP had been spamming my comments on all websites the last week. I had to finally get in touch with Askimet directly to have the issue sorted. 🙂
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Oh, that is interesting and strange. Any reason you know of why it was doing that?
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Don’t know the reason, even the Askimet techs couldnt figure out why it was happening. It happened to a couple of other bloggers too! Guess, it’s the some words/phrases we used in the comment that triggered it.
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Oh, I was so struck by that beautiful bloom. My favourite line, “Time’s grey witnesses” 🙂
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Thank you, I loved the bloom too. Gifs and other animations really deliver better than pictures 🙂
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They certainly do. They remind me a little of the Harry Potter pictures. Finally our still photos come to life! 🙂
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If you like this kind of action and bringing into life of pictures you might like Thomasz Alen Copera pictures brought to life by blind artist George Redhawk. There are some really beautiful and thought- provoking images there and I used many for my previous poems.
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing, I will certainly check it out!
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This one has a few of those works
https://geethaprodhom.wordpress.com/2015/09/23/internal-workings/
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This is just gorgeous. Thanks so much.
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Welcome. I am glad you like it 🙂
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