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poddarku
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since 2008-01-15
Posts 589
india

0 posted 2008-09-10 11:23 AM



Dateline: 9/11

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I loved to watch birds.
[Flying kingdom of it shines
on a cloudless sky.]
I loved airplane all the same.

The long office hours,
dull drones used to make
my sleepy eyes
shifting through a sky,
searching for an opening
to fly with the birds…  

[A day is a day
until something happens.]

I, an useless man
was looking at the window,
close to the sky.
Someone say about a file.
My habitual hands
shifted with a mechanical speed
over some dead tree pulps.
Papers surrounded
me once more.
I wished for a wing, again.

“Look buddy! A jet.”
I had not seen one flying so close.
I of course would not see one again.
[A flight,
Majestic
Regal
King-size
Death.]
It was coming to me,
into me,
the burst
the blast.
[As to why,
I don’t know the answer still today.]

I can see my girl from here
in black, mourning through
million nights and more.
Ah! Sky is so light
and my speed is in light-years.
Beneath lies the earth,
a dark mound oozing sepia blood.

clever talks delay friendship!

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Margherita
Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
1 posted 2008-09-10 11:41 AM


Must be one of the best that have been written on this dramatic topic, dear Ku!

I am deeply impressed. Another poem that can't be forgotten.

Love,
Margherita

LeeJ
Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296

2 posted 2008-09-10 12:16 PM


yes, chilled me to the bone
and yet, written so cleaverly
enjoyed this...
such a sad sad time...


OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa
3 posted 2008-09-10 12:19 PM


Oh, I so agree with Margherita!  What a magnificent blend of brilliance, imagination, deep thought, sensitivity, empathy, understanding and compassion!  You are an artist and a poet par excellence!  I hope that you are keeping a collection of your poetry on your computer and on a print-out - please, please, please don't mislay a single poem.  Thank you for this sparkling masterpiece.

- Owl

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
4 posted 2008-09-13 07:28 PM


Fine writing...James
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