Re: [ZESTPoets] Re: Three poems from a few years back...

jane bhandari Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:10:21 -0700

Come on, Abhishek. I don't think Farah intended irony. That was a genuine comment.

Don't mock sentimentality, even if it does jerk a few tears. Actually it wasn't meant to be a tear-jerker, just wanted to convey a depressing situation.

Eventually this will become a haiku, when I can figure out how to cut it down and keep the grey tone.

Abhishek Hazra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

well, uh...umm, hmm, haw, hmm...is the above an ironic
utterance on the notion of the 'melodramatic'??

--- Farah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

>
> Your poem, as always, is very beautiful. It's
> atmosphere conveys such sadness; its like the tress
> are mourning the loss too.The context has made the
> poem tear-jerking.
>
> Thankyou for sharing it...
>
> Farah
> --- In [email protected], jane bhandari
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> >
> > What images of diminishment.
> >
> > I have a winter poem here for you. Similar feeling
> of sadness and time running out, written while I was
> waiting for my father to die.
> >
> >
> >
> > THE TREES
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Here, the trees crowd closer.
> >
> > Even in the dark one feels their presence.
> >
> > In the stillest night they stir, and rustle
> >
> > With the shuffling sound of retreating feet,
> >
> > Mourners murmuring as they depart.
> >
> >
> >
> > After the first gales, leaves lie across the grass
>
> >
> > Like corpses, whispering death in ghostly voices,
> >
> > And the wind keens through the empty branches,
> >
> > Sharpening their edges against the bitter sky,
> >
> > Cutting it into a grey shroud for dead summer.
> >
> >
> > Jane Bhandari
> >
> > Farah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Time slipped out of my hands
> >
> >
> >
> > Time slipped out of my hand
> >
> > Like sand.
> >
> > Sifting out through an open fist
> >
> > And the little left upon my palm
> >
> > Was also soon gone
> >
> > As if blown away by wind.
> >
> >
> >
> > I watched with disbelieving eyes,
> >
> > This strange, bewildering performance
> >
> > As it passed the frenzied vigor of avalanche
> >
> > Then slowly pulsed down to a mere trickling
lineï¿½
> >
> >
> >
> > Farah Shams (1999)
> >
> >
> >
> > Age
> >
> > Time passes,
> >
> > For some slowly.
> >
> > For others_ running.
> >
> >
> >
> > But in the end
> >
> > All are same.
> >
> > The bodies once young
> >
> > As strong young trees
> >
> > With tough branches,
> >
> > Sturdy roots
> >
> > Are reduced to mere skeletons
> >
> > With bare thin limbs
> >
> > And only a trickle of life
> >
> > Flowing in the trunkï¿½
> >
> >
> >
> > And then_ they're lonely.
> >
> > With memories like gusts of wind
> >
> > Blowing, echoing, rumbling
> >
> > Through their bodies.
> >
> > Forcing the stiff branches to creak
> >
> > The hollow, empty body to groanï¿½
> >
> > Till the nearly dead roots
> >
> > Can no longer stand this onslaught
> >
> > And then, they too uproot.
> >
> >
> >
> > Farah Shams (1999)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Tree Tops
> >
> > I watched the rising trees soar up, so up
> >
> > Till I had to lie on ground
> >
> > So I wouldn't fall when I looked up
> >
> > And how I wished that I could too
> >
> > Soar up, so upï¿½
> >
> > Until those down below
> >
> > Will have to lie down too.
> >
> > But I was no tree, no plant with roots,
> >
> > A plain mortal I was_ but yes_ I could!
> >
> > I had two arms and legs that walked
> >
> > So I climbed to the topï¿½
> >
> > When atop the highest tree I stood
> >
> > And looked below to my beginnings
> >
> > I realized with sudden clarity
> >
> > The wisdom of me being not a tree_
> >
> > Then some one too with arms and legs
> >
> > Would one day climb, and stand on me!
> >
> >
> >
> > Farah Shams (2000)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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