Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Night


"By night an atheist half believes in God."
-Edward Young

The crawler makes its way,
through the grey road.

The darkest of it's kind,
creates a magic spell on each leaf,
that flutters in the silent wind.

The moon shines,
with an unusual glory.
It's a glory of mistrust between the two worlds.
One that seeks to live and love.
The other that fights to seek an existence.

The calmness of the night,
was stolen by the dark envy.
An envy that robs the,
trees of it's right to live.
And the right to greenness.

Small pieces of the night,
stitch together and weave magic to a pungent perfume.

Floating limbs of evil forces,
grasp the melancholy of the earth,
to liven the damn spirits of
Golgotha.

Nott remains unsuccessful,
in her attempts to bring her night back.
The Wiesel guy,
penned it down what it was like.


It was a night of happier things too.


The rickshaw-puller smoke his lustful pot,
and for once he relaxed,
to the tunes of the Baul that hummed in the record player,
left by some guest the other day.

It is also when people,
discover each other.

The trees communicate in silence.
And talk of welcoming the rains,
and bearing the pains.


The night shelters itself in a vast expanse,
pretending to be some kind of a treacherous beast,
that makes prophecies or wars and crimes.

Night is when the people rest,
and the dreams work to make him,
alive next morning.
Night is when man is what he becomes the next morning.


The sun paints the canvas,
and plays with the colours a little later.
It weeps and departs and promises,
a revengeful return.

(Nott is the Norse Goddess of Night,
Elles Wiesel is an author who wrote a book named "Night",talking about the Nazi treachery)

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

iS it ever possible for you to write a poem about butterflies and rainbows?
This is a brilliant poem, kind of moves you in a weird way. Teases you along the way.
And as usual you've made an even better piece.



so, yeah. Good job.


Amrita

Unknown said...

The psychedelic touch to most of your poems brings a unique touch of mysticness to the whole piece.
In variably this has been the same.

But somehow I think you could make that psyche work wonders if you managed to put them into pieces that dealt with human emotions (that doesn't necessarily need to be dark!!)

anyways it was a good one. guess loads better than the previous ones (save the one on the train...that was fabulous!!).

but do try and work on what i said coz you are getting into that stereotype genre i guess.

Amrita..........my spectrum said...

der ws a boy...
a vry strange n enchanting boy...
dey say he wondered...very far..very far...ova land n seas...
a lil shy...n sad of eye...
bt vry wise....was he...
n den 1 day...1 day he passd mah way...
n while we spoke away
and i.......amused.....wanted to say,
"absurd may b wht you say...
ill suited to the marching times...
i loved da lips frm wich dey fell...
so let it stand among my rhymes.."

Unknown said...

u have d capability of making yr readerz visualise wt u write...yr elaborate descriptionz...yr poetic wordz...yr involvement as a poet...n yr belief in wt u write is reallly praiseworthy....
d poem is xtremely gud....it leaves d readerz in an eerie atmosphere....i guess dats d unique thing abt yr poemz!!!.....

really gr8 work...

madhusnata!

Amrita..........my spectrum said...

waiting fr updates!!!

Niti said...

"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."
~ Carl R. Rogers
as i've already told you..u've improved along d way.. good job!

Unknown said...

i used to see a man from a room's distance pulling out aethism of his legs every moon-hour to please his woman who was devout and pious of his manliness...
u reminded me of a close experience...

Unknown said...

nice blog and great poem.
:)