Bringer of the light
16 February 2016
She sits calm
Pondering life’s ways
As Time flows
Like rivers
Our souls go through highs and lows
In dancing waters
Sometimes fast
Sometimes inching ants
We let rants
Broken past
Separate our hearts that beat
Quick admit defeat
The knowledge
It comes slow steady
Into minds
Waking souls
Of the chosen few ready
To live on the edge
He lived thrill
His words harsh mouth shrill
Skull beating
The heart numb
Errors of past repeating
His memory played dumb
We light skies
With crazed fireflies’ glow
Or dead stars
Throbbing lies
Bursting out of mind’s control
To clean mess takes hours
The clock sighs
As it counts seconds
Turning slow
Centuries
Two were to bear it the flame
Now one scurries lame
Phantom twin
Runs lone for the win
Ghostly foot
Joins the race
In pairs we face less disgrace
Battered time relay
He turns meek
His lessons now learnt
The soul burnt
Forged by change
He offers strong other cheek
Forgiveness not strange
Each other’s
Tutor and pupil
Lessons pour
The heart’s fill
Winning humility’s sight
Bringer of the light
Reading of the poem:
A big thank you to Hector (https://fromcoldtofire.wordpress.com/ ) for his introduction to Paolo Nutini
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Better man – Paolo Nutini
Geetha Balvannanathan's Blog - Isis Tratum 
Loved it. The part that struck me most was about the knowledge coming slowly. It makes me think of how long Iit took me to reach this part of my life. I so wish I had my wisdom current wisdom earlier in life. I would have been so much happier. Lovely piece.
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Thank you. We actually savour better what we acquire in contrast with the way things were when we did not have such things be it knowledge or any other good thing. It is thus a blessing in hindsight that we did not have it before because we feel more the value and importance of it and are truly content without what ifs 🙂
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That is so true. To acquire a true appreciation of light, we must first be in the dark. Yes, I stopped living with the what ifs. They’re the unnecessary baggage that hold us back because we’re focusing on the past and not on all the wonders the future has to offer.
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Good for you Andrew, I am so happy for you. May your wife also be appeased 🙂
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She is a little younger. She has yet to reach this point in her life.
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Personally I feel it has nothing to do with age
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I agree. I guess I said that because she is in the process of reconnecting with the little girl in her to figure out what she wants to get out of life. She has tapped into her creativity. She has a talent for sketching. She is definitely in the process of soul searching and searching for peace with her past.
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That’s a definitely good step in the right direction. They say soulmates activate your creativity and twinflame enflames it.
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Never heard that. Interesting. Well, I hope I can ignite the creativity in her. Thanks.
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I like the feeling of redemption at the end of this one. Well done, Poetess!
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Thank you Poet 🙂 . Redemption is such an obsession for most of us
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Forgiveness is surely the key to acquiring eternal light, in what ever form it comes. Beautiful poetry, my friend.
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Thank ypu Thomas. Very true
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You are welcome, Geetha!
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Light is found in unexpected places. A wonderful post Geetha and I see that you have included Paolo, he is such a prodigy!
-Dajena ❤
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I actually found out about Paolo thanks to Hector. Lovely songs. Thanks Dajena 🙂
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Wow….sometimes that’s just the thing to say and for this poem….Wow seems to be an understatement!
Loved the poem and the imagery you use….just brilliant!
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Thank you so much for your kind words 🙂
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Wonderful!
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Thank you Sarah
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The lyrism….sigh
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Thank you Tosha 🙂
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You’re welcome xo
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Oh yes, thank you Geetha for mentioning my blog in here, very kind of you. 🙂
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Welcome and thank you for referring the beautiful music. That in itself deserved a mention but your blog is also so full of beautiful thoughts I am sure people who visit it will be charmed like I was 🙂
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“The knowledge It comes slow steady Into minds” – this one reminds me of how I love the “light” shinning strong in my later years. It takes a life time to find it and sometimes we regret wasted years. Sometimes it feels like I was asleep and now I am awake. Beautiful one Geetha.
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Thank you Hector. We should not regret anything in reality because it is all only experiences and lessons learnt. We must use the past as a token of remembrance for what we are able to build later on in life if we build it at all. Some continue sleeping throughout their lifetime and awake only few instants before their death.
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I like the juxtaposing of the characters.
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Thanks Marissa 🙂
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“In pairs we face less disgrace” — This line caught me with its truth. Your poems are a lyric cascade 🙂
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Thank you Melinda. Yes, we weave truths and lies like smiles and sighs 🙂
I hope the waterfall keeps going 😀
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You’re welcome 🙂 I love that simile you just wrote! I’m quite certain your word will continue to fall 🙂
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Thanks I hope so. For the time being it is even overflowing but I can’t complain. Many poems are lost because I cannot always write or record but my mind is really in overdrive. A friend told me yeah be careful it is always like that before you go poof. So let’s hope I don’t go poof 😀
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Oh I hope not! I don’t think you’re creative urge will peter out. You have struck a vein of it for certain and I hope it’s a deep one.
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I believe it is quite deep too. When I don’t write out what is flowing I actually feel nauseous. That must mean something 😀
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Those words are bursting free anyway they can!
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So true. Sometimes I wake up at 2 am after having gone to sleep at 11 pm and I can’t go back to sleep if I have not written what is on my mind.
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I am the same way 🙂 Glad to know I am in good company.
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I had an inkling we were similar in that 🙂
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🙂 it makes me happy to know that!
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Nice one Geetha. Obviously you mean it figuratively about “soul burnt” cause in reality soul is unscathed, as said in the Gita. Love graphics enhance the words 🙂
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When I say soul burnt, I am alluding to a fire that burns so deep that you feel it in the soul
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Oh wow. Nice one that
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Thanks Kamal 🙂
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