January 03, 2005

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.-Henry Ward Beecher

A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR to all.
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When You return from your journey,
some lingering thought shall bring you here.
This is different from the macro of the microcosm
of the knittings in your dream,
which you might have savoured of late.
I make you sit through a panorama.
Its a frame or a window;
you can know only when you touch it.
It is the best of its kind
because it is "With You".

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With You

She sat by my side
Laughing her expressions out,
Drooping over me as my
Philosophy captured her soul-
Her simpler philosophy
Capturing my essence.
She brings in her absence
Thoughts about the future,
Yet time didn?t bother
To write some history.
-The thoughts question me
Shall the future ever come?

I look into her eyes-
Dunno what she saw in me.
Aims to characterize myself
Faded long back, and she
Attempts to bring them back.
Maybe she knows more
Than I know about myself.
I fear her knowing
How frequently I change,
How quickly history gets written
To which future is unable to refer.

She opened the odour of life
That defeated the troubled senses.
-My odour of life was philosophy.
I delved deeper in definition;
She in the matter.
My beautifying objects- the stars,
The moon, their dark support,
Had vanished before her.
All that remained was silence.
-No moon attempting its beauty,
No sea rippling to the shore,
No noise vibrating the drums.
She riding on that silence,
Daggered into bloodless-me.

Her soft hands applying
The odour of life brought
To me a similar silence.

When I observed her face
No peculiarities could be drawn.

In loneliness, I remember
Her name- the index.
Friendship defines the content.
Her understanding defeats
All practical definitions.
Her frankness gives to me
A responsibility to shoulder.
Gracefully she steps up to me.
-When the enchantment dies
I see her observing me,
Dancing to the tunes of life.
Unknowingly her rhythm
Is filtered by mine.
Unknowingly she becomes
A subject of my poetry.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

No offence meant Pal, but just thought i would provide some wacky suggestions (incl title):

With You I S(t)ink!!

She sat by my side
Laughing her expressions out,
Drooping over me as my--(Drooling?)
Philosophy captured her soul--(sole?)
Her simpler philosophy--(philoso 'fee')
Capturing my essence.--(do i 'smell' a rat here?)
She brings in her absence--(amnesia?)
Thoughts about the future,
Yet time didn?t bother (watch stopped working?)
To write some history. ('her'story?)
-The thoughts question me
Shall the future ever come? (Is there a future?)

Anonymous said...

A walk through a beautiful dream!

Anonymous said...

Its a good one