Second skins peel into day
14 January 2016
Look at me
I reflect your face
Shining bright
Sketched in me
Your inks an invitation
To discover nights
See me through
Light’s mysteries flee
From my touch
Lurching sparks
I reach within owls’ feathers
Gathering fate’s quills
Whiff my scent
Pick up on the shards
Embalming
Preserving
Remnants of sunshine and ache
As I exhale dark
Smell me dry
Of memories might
Conserving
Observing
The scent of despair and hope
Heady wanderings
Voice me soft
I fall like caress
From your lips
To my wait
Where two and two make more else
A fusion of sorts
Scream my name
In tattoos that writhe
Through my scars
Like dewdrops
On your hair and shoulders’ curve
The moon will glisten
Listen now
I speak of Beauty
Love your heart
Bless your soul
There are landscapes in my mind
Where we fly like birds
Hear me out
I will convince you
Of lovers
Who wander
In desert plains bringing rain
Like the rolling moss
Sense me bare
With lust and toil’s care
Light me spleen
Luster sheen
A repetition of thoughts
Litany’s prayers
Sixth me flare
Where shadows lead way
Light dies thin
Hurt follows
Second skins peel into day
Bright with future’s rub
Reading of the poem:
A few of the love songs that I have liked over the years and which translate several shades of love
Desire – Rumi poem interpreted by Deepak Chopra and Demi Moore
Veer Zara Do pal ruka Full song with English subtitles
Wael Kfoury – Hekm el alb with English Lyrics
Ci vorrebbe il mare – Marco Masini
Baby Can I hold you … Tracy Chapman
Ya Dali Ya Ro7i By Wael Kfoury English Translation
Main Yahaan Hoon Veer Zaara with English subtitles
Lara Fabian – Caruso
Wow! This is amazingly beautifully incredibly wonderfully written. So many layers just as you speak of. The pictures are wild. I keep reading it over and over and absorbing it a little more each time. I also love the second video Veer Sara Do pal ruka, so bittersweetly romantic! I must go back and read again…:-)
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Thank you so much Deb. I am glad you liked this and as a full experience. I too love the hindi videos, they come from a very beautiful movie called Veer Zaara which speaks about an inter-religious love that lasts over time.
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I am loving this one Geetha… the songs just blend so well with the poem..i noticed you have a gift at picking the perfectly beautiful songs… do you sing too?
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I am not trained apart from a few month stint as a mezzo soprano but I love singing and have invented melodies for some of my poems that I have sung
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Oh… that’s why…. i am amazed..
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“Skin that Peel
Brings the Feel
Of new Life
Old cut by Knife
Wilderness Shred
In the New to Bred
Now its Hope
All should Cope
If not shall again Peel
What do you Feel”
Geetha!
Love Looms Around Us
Shiva
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Lovely Shiva. Thank you for your poem. You are right, love looms all around us and we should let it bloom. Be well my friend 🙂
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A landscape in the mind where I can fly like a bird sounds nice. Most of the time, I plod slowly through my mind like a tortoise. 🙂
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You’re so funny Bun. Plod on and we will plod along chatting. Thanks for stopping by and reading with humour 🙂
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You’re welcome. It was a very nice post. I also enjoyed the song I watched. It was the one with the man and the woman on the train platform.
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I wonder why WP spammed your comment. I just retrieved four comments including two of yours. Very strange.
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I very often get sent to spam folders. WordPress is obviously wary of the raw power of my comments. 🙂
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It’s either that or they are keeping you from the whitehouse as Andrew says 😀 😀
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I have enemies everywhere.
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😀 😀
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It must have been ci vorrebbe il mare (One would need the sea)
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This was a like a dream, thank you so much for sharing! Beautifully written!
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Thank you Shwetha for your lovely compliment 🙂
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the rise and all of love ending with the shedding of the skin so one can love again…or the growth of a relationship which may witness much shedding over the years…sewn with light and dark emotions, your words take me on a journey through mind, body and soul where all the senses are stimulated… beautiful poetry accompanied, as usual, with aptly chosen image and clips…
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Thank you Thomas. Yours, Dajena’s and Tosha’s comments are what I really like reading among a few others because of their depth and insight. It could be either way of what you interpret. There are many layers to one’s skin and soul 🙂
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YOu are welcome, Geetha, and I believe it is the sign of great poetry when the poet leaves room for a reader’s own interpretation.
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You are right. When I read beautiful poetry and see all the different comments that are coming from different places as compared to where I am coming from in reading the same piece, it makes me think of Mona Lisa and how it seems her eyes are following the onlooker everywhere. I guess that omnipotentiality is what separates ordinary poetry from deeper kinds of poetry
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A great analogy, my friend. It is indeed, just like that. I love it when people bring their own biases and experiences to a piece, no matter how far off the mark it may be, because really, poetry is only written for the individual writing it and once it is shared, it really does belong to the world. 🙂
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Exactly, it belongs to the world once it is out there and actually if you think of it, the first place it came from was the world anyway
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full cycle:)
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🙂
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Dear Geetha – I am in love with your post…The video clip of Wael Kfoury has such deep meaning and words. Wow…The second clip of Wael Hekm ellb and his voice makes me tell you the same words to you.
أحبك
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Thank you Mihran. You have such an enthusiastic soul. God bless and may you find happiness and love always
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Your writing is synonymous to Lord Krishna’s thoughts in Bhagavad Gita – Chapter 2, Verse 22. It speaks on a similar aspect, but with regards to the body shedding its soul!
The photos you used here are gothic yet apt here! 😄
Nice post. Loved to stumble by here!
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Thank you, that is quite an inspiring comment. Perhaps because my father used to talk to us about the Mahabaratha, the Ramayana and the Bhagavad Gita (parts of which I read) I might have somehow picked it up within my writing. We always tend to pick up on and blend thoughts from elsewhere. With millenary thoughts and writings preceding us it would be quite hard to be fully original but I love the reference, especially that my name is Geetha:)
Thanks for passing by to read and appreciate and thank you for your thoughtful comments 🙂
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I feel like each peel carries a story, an emotion, an identity that the speaker is distancing from themselves. So much love, mixed in pain that flares up right where the scares are.
I liked the songs you had collaged here, and definitely will return to listen to all. Good taste I must say 😀
hugs, and much love. me going to sleep.. thank you for being here!
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Your insight always amazes me, very well interpreted. We shed loves and stories as we walk through life and as I mentioned before it is a time for letting go 🙂
I like the songs too and they speak to me on many levels because of my background and the places I have been both literally and figuratively. I am glad you like them and find them of good taste 😀
Much love and hugs to you too and may skittles shine on your sleep. Thank you too for being here 🙂
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I love reading your poetry. It always has a wonderful flavor that lingers sweetly through the day 🙂
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Thank you that is a great compliment 🙂
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Beautiful… 🙂
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Thank you Maniparna 🙂
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WOW! Intense👌🏼❤️
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Thank you Lisa and thanks for sharing too 🙂
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I’m almost embarrassed to say this but your work is way advanced for me😆 I hope that came out ok? I am amazed by your words. Still learning how to interpret. It’s something new for me. I have a longggggg way to go lol! I love reading your blog! Thank you so much for the follow😘
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Thank you Lisa but there is nothing to be embarrassed about. I really liked what I read from you and am looking forward to reading more. I just have little time so usually do not read through the archives of the blogs I follow but concentrate on the upcoming. One day when I have enough time I will visit all the archives one by one 🙂
Thank you for reading and appreciating. I am grateful for your kind words
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Thank you so much😢 That means a lot coming from you. I admire your words so much. I’m so excited to meet such talented people such as yourself. This experience so far is AWESOME! I need all of the help I can get, lol only serious😉 Please feel free to give me any feedback you think I need👌🏼 I can’t wait to get to know you even more💋
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Thank you, you’re too kind and thankfully I never get big-headed or pig-headed with praise 😀
I am glad that you are finding the experience awesome as I did. It is liberating to write and one should write with heart. The only feedback I could ever give you is to always let your writing flow. This blogging world is wonderful because beyond the literary interactions we actually get to know the human beings behind and that is full food for the soul. Happy blogging. As I take on a new role shortly I will be mainly reading weekly but I will be definitely reading all those I follow (from my email weekly digest). I will still go around daily on the blogs as long as I have time to do so. I hope to be reading more of your work soon. Meanwhile keep writing and enjoying 🙂
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Naw, it’s true. That is probably why I don’t mind praising you.(I knew that, lol) Yes, it is very liberating~ That is all I do is bleed my heart out. OK, Will do. This is the best place EVER! OMG, I know right? Love it. Thank you so much. I want to eat all of the time!!! That’s great and thank you for your kindness with me 🙂 I will as much as humanly possible. Take care and keep in touch my friend~MOOOAH!
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You take care too and enjoy yourself immensely. Mwaaah back to you and kudos for the weekend
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