> Wrote this poem at some one’s request on the theme of “weaving dreams”… As the year closes on, probably dream weaving is something I will indeed try do in earnest! This one is a rather melancholy poem although the given topic is supposed to generate hope, also a little lost and deeply coiled within, like a lot of my obscure thoughts. Nevertheless, for my friends:
Leaf falls and yesteryears do
Make up some of its urgency,
Nagging, irritating fly
That snaps its sticky wings and revisits doorsteps of a house
Called memory, its driveway almost always messy.
My dream hovers above meandering
Pessimism, a mountain,
Like an elephant gone to die
In peace and relative grandeur where motions kneel down
Aware that the wind takes scraps away to its bare-wall den
I wonder if then you hear songs
With birds sitting on thorns,
Bloodied to their core,
And while caravans lose paths in the swirling sea-sands
Nights pass taking stones with names inscribed and hewn
Tell me then why we need to belt
And buckle to our seats
For a fur-flung destiny
And hold our hands when verses wither off like ink or seeds
No raccoon would eat, only this planet would dream in bits
I sieve those dreams when everything’s
Gone to a dusk of rest
Beyond a highway run
Where your guns and sheep come bleating for a final kill.
I’m someone with a question still slung on her breast
Perhaps there’s a new sea rising
Over your brazen hand
I see its dazzle at night
Serendipity, let me weave a dream that creates boats and homes –
A web of hopefulness we wake up to in blossom-smelling lands.
>”Like an elephant gone to dieIn peace and relative grandeur where motions kneel down”wow!
>wow–deep, meaningful and just wonderful piece. I wonder what inspired u for writing this…Leaf falls and yesteryears doMake up some of its urgency,Nagging, irritating flyThat snaps its sticky wings and revisits doorsteps of a houseCalled memory, its driveway almost always messy….vivid.
>Dear Anu, the elephant seems always to me to be a mysterious animal, capable of somany imageries!! Will write an email to you later, hope all is well?Hi Mys: thanks for liking it. Think i wrote it at a moment of sadness… although the topic was dream weaving! Again, the imagery of an apparently intangible memory as objects such as driveway, house, road, flowing rivers is something i probably use over an dover again. Have a great year end a New Year, girl!
>interesting. Was watching elephants on national geo the other day who’d taken to attacking the villagers. They’re being run out of their homes.Very evocative and thoughtful use of imagery.
>i’m happy you like it Joy… I was a bit critical about how dense how i could get at times!!