Scent of tomorrow
25 January 2016
Fog covered
The memory of love
Silent space
Buried Time
An inclination to rhyme
Lost in my ink’s beak
The heart dies
Never flirt with lies
Tell tall tales
Flying whales
Transparence in the absence
Of throbbing matters
Should I speak
Bones break silences sway
Dancing lights
Blinding sights
A corpse bride dressed in tatters
The future rust bleak
Will iron
Maidens lost in sleep
Yet they weep
Death did creep
Oh the maidens how they weep
In my heart dead mirth
Sixteen crows
Dealt me quick dark blows
Endings near
Lost the fear
My walk has risen through Time
Now we leave this Earth
Look behind
The pathways they do unwind
Yesterday
Bridges burnt
I live from my lessons learnt
Time a misplaced space
Never weep
Those eyes pray keep dry
Daffodils
Love the sun
Waters may touch only feet
Keep tears when we meet
Moon waxes
Its light ebbing tide
And I wane
Forgotten
Pegasus your lovely mane
Bore tidal glory
Sacrifice
An inclination
Lost nation
Pennies counts
Doorways to other dark worlds
I travel fearless
The Heart flies
In Love I walk whole
Dead timber
My pathway
Burnt bridges my inks restore
Wooden languages
Tell me lies
I will decant rhymes
Holy chimes
End riddles
A pied piper roamed in Times
Of dark and fiddles
Play me smooth
Piano and cello
Hand on one
Stroking next
You had me once at hello
Now goodbyes linger
I built them
The raging towers
Shining dark
Voice and spark
Reclusion the destiny
Mind’s perpetuity
Hearts break chains
Heat melting metal
Consumption
Affliction
I turned outwards all sorrow
My streams bathed in red
I will call
The moonbeams of Mars
Gods’ altar
Six steps East
Blue whistles invoke the Beast
Nine arrows falter
We grow tall
Though weather relays
Icicles
Red sandstorms
Feel whiffs in scurried delays
Scent of tomorrow
Reading of the poem:
Svanire – Ludovico Einaudi
Writing poems – Ludovico Einaudi
Burning – Ludovico Einaudi
Cache-cache – Ludovico Einaudi
Love is a mystery – Ludovico Einaudi
Oltremare – Ludovico Einaudi
Life – Ludovico Einaudi
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This is gorgeous and I enjoyed it much more listening to you read it. Beautiful, as always , my friend.
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Thank you so much my friend 🙂
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You are welcome 🙂
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Absolutely awesome. You gave this piece the perfect title.
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Thank you so much Andrew. I barely hesitated for the title
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You write so beautifully. I loved every word.
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Thanks a lot, you’re a darling 🙂
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Smiling
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what a nice piece! and I love the images you picked here as well as the music 🙂
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Thank you so much. I am not sure why the automatic WP spam had spammed you so I had not see your comment before. I am glad you appreciated. Sometimes it takes me more time to find the images than actually writing the poem 😀
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I think there had been issues with WP on the spam thing as everyone is facing the same issue. But anyway the thing with images is you have to find the right one that fits your piece hehe 🙂
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True, it is not always easy because so many images are with copyright
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Oooh! Such a beauty to read. It’s like I am singing when I was reading it. And Melinda is right, your words speak volume. They speak depth and meaning.
Great, as usual, Geetha! 🙂
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Thank you so much Rosema, I am glad you liked it and it was like a sing song in your head. Of late I have found my words flowing a bit like that, perhaps because I am listening so much to music 🙂
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Maybe! But I surely enjoy reading your poem! And the meaning is really piercing!
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Beautiful Geetha. Such a wonderful journey you take us on! I always find your poetry like a walk in a garden. 🙂
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Thank you Eric. Glad it is like a walk in the garden you like. Yes, sometimes the garden is in winter but it stays a garden, perhaps sometimes lost in time and space too. Speaking of garden and time, space, I hope you like this one. It is in French but the images are very evocative. Be well my friend 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Fw_dZZ08k
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I love that you included a recording of you reading it! Your performance of the piece added such a depth to it. You have the perfect intonation and delivery to voice acting or audiobook narration. Check out ACX : http://www.acx.com/help/narrators/200484550
ok on to the poem, though all the lines present images both lovely and intriguing, I love these lines the most:
“I live from my lessons learnt”
“Burnt bridges my inks restore”
“time lost space”
“I will decant rhymes”
They speak such volumes in so few words and provoke such thoughts 🙂
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Thank you, will check out the link. I used to read to the visually impaired and perhaps that has added a dimension to my voice because I really wished to communicate to them the beauty of what I was reading. I actually tone my intonation a bit so that not to sound too emphatic like I used to be when reading. People who don’t see love it when you put a lot of colour into your voice and I used to go overboard with that 😀
Thank you for your suggestion and appreciation. Yes, we all live from lessons learnt or we face the lessons again in a much less bearable form. I feel no bridges are ever burnt if you communicate and words, when written and not confronted with the dialog that can turn awry, let’s say with the time given and taken on both sides to reflect rather than to answer countering at all costs can rebuild what was broken/burnt. I think Jean Paul mentioned the decanting rhymes and in it the notion of some poems being too heady to inhale all at once, hence the need for decanting. I am glad you perceive what I like hiding in my poetry to be slowly uncovered. I enjoy doing that and am better at it with French but sometimes English also lends itself well to this intricate exercise. Having read regularly your poems and entered your fantasy world albeit briefly, I am not surprised at all at your sensitivity to all that is within the words/images. Thanks again, I really like your comments like a few others here on blogsville 🙂
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You’re welcome 🙂 Those blind folks were lucky to have you reading to them 🙂 I will keep looking for those hidden gems then 😉
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So sweet of you 🙂 🙂
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What a pity, I checked out the link and it is only for US and UK residents and on top of that you need to have a valid US TIN. Thanks anyway, it seems like a good idea to narrate books again.
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oh sorry about that. I didn’t realize. Maybe they’ll expand it in future or maybe there is a local firm you can narrate through. You’d be great at it!
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No issues, it was really nice of you to point me in that direction. I did not find any local companies doing that here but hopefully some others are willing to extend their operations 🙂
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yes I hope so! You have the perfect voice for it. 🙂
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Thank you so much Melinda for your encouragement 🙂
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You’re welcome 🙂
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🙂
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So beautiful and many note worthy lines. I’m out but will revist this poem tonight
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Thank you darling. Hope you have recovered from the last time you were unwell.
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Yes. Getting these xx
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Magical as usual.. Took to through many different realms and then kissed me goodnight… Good night my dear poetess. Bless you
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Thank you Hemangini. I am glad you were able to travel with it :). Good night and bless you too
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A bit of fairy tale here. Love it!
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Thank you Marissa 🙂
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I will decant rhymes. Love that line.
JP
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Thank you Jean-Paul. Some rhymes that you read are like heady wine and go straight to the head so they need decanting to breathe a bit 😀
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Wow….very impressive…Love it!
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Thank you Mark 🙂
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