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poddarku
Senior Member

since 2008-01-15

Posts 589
india

0 posted 2009-02-18 10:00 PM

A conversation on life
...........................
: Where were you yesterday?
  The phone had been dead cold!
: Busy, you can say.
: You? In what may I ask?
: Dear, of course you can.
: Then I am. I want to know.
: Busy in living a life.

Life is a piece of loaf
soaked in the milky tea
which he is sucking
forever, forever-
sucking till the last drop
and cannot let it go
or break his habit
to keep on living.
: I have got the job.
: My congratulation.
Congratulations
are sparkling fireworks
he has kept from the early childhood,
saving for a day of bells and cheers,
a day worthy in truth.
Of course such day keeps being delayed.
The soggy fireworks only burn
and leave a trail of smoke to follow
and find the sleeping child inside,
sleeping eternally.
: Well?
: Well!
The well in his house at back home
where his birth was greeted
by laughing women joyfully uttering lewd jokes
in the ears of a young father-
had been dried one summer.
His brother found the bed of the pit
and they found him one day too late.
: Why is it difficult to whisper goodbyes?
: Because it may be the only thing
  we are to remember.
The living is a road on a mountain
all leading to one peak
where every living beings shall someday meet.
=© 2009 - All Rights Reserved Kushal Poddar

clever talks delay friendship!

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1 posted 2009-02-18 10:40 PM

Yo Poddarku,

Your conception of an afterlife is as valid as any.

You've done nice work on this poem.

Bobby

Juju
Member Elite

since 2003-12-29

Posts 3429
In your dreams

2 posted 2009-02-18 11:11 PM

Lovely like always.

-Juju

-"So you found a girl
Who thinks really deep thoughts
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts " Silent all these Years, Tori Amos

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
Member Ascendant

since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

3 posted 2009-02-19 06:34 AM

oh I do enjoy reading your beautiful thoughts my lovely friend

thank you for sharing them with us here.. I hope you continue to do so for a long time to come ... xxx RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2009-02-19 07:23 AM

Intriguing thoughts, Ku. Always enjoy.
Ida

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

5 posted 2009-02-19 10:28 AM

"Why is it difficult to whisper goodbyes?
: Because it may be the only thing
we are to remember."

Profound. Good to read you again, poet.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2009-02-19 11:45 AM

Kushal, I can feel the heavy-heartedness in this, and it saddens me. Your beautiful stream-of-consciousness poem is a good way of releasing the aches of reality of the dark side. I will pray that you soon are warming yourself at the communal camp-fires of the sunny side. A white butterfly is trying very hard to lighten your burdens and make you smile, long, deep, inwardly and outwardly.

Owl

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

7 posted 2009-02-19 12:09 PM

I like your conversations, Poddar...

it made for some excellent eavesdropping.

Thank you!

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

8 posted 2009-02-19 03:59 PM

quote:
The living is a road on a mountain
all leading to one peak
where all living beings shall someday meet.

Dearest Ku, in surrendering to what is, we go on living in wonder for life itself, even when melancholy and sorrow mingle with joy.

To read you is to touch life and its intrinsic emotions very closely. You are a most beautiful poetic voice.

Love and hugs.
Margherita

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

9 posted 2009-02-19 04:02 PM

I felt as though I was eaves-dropping in on a very intimate conversation. You draw the reader into the realm of whatever you are writing about. That takes talent ~ and you have that in copious amounts. I also enjoyed reading the responses that your 'conversation' engendered ~ especially Midnitensun's and OWL's.

Linda

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