Hi guys, this is the story behind "prom"s(my last blog!). I was cleaning up my book-shelf 2 days back, when I got this hard-backed blue notebook. I was going to throw away, when I sat and read thru the slightly yellowish pages...some 10-15 poems (or u can call them "proms"), all dated 1992-1996. Only 2 were English, rest were all in my native language malayalam. So now u guessed the author?????? Me....(Aravind, only you guessed it rite!!!!!, hats off!!! )
And I don't even remember, how I wrote this, at least in this fashion!!!!
Now I don't have any poetic "thing" left, so I don't read or write poems. When I showed this to my friend durga , who writes good poems she says "Its true that the style is not 'poetic' enough. But it possess a very unique quality. I can see the heart!!!"(she's a good friend, wont hurt me...LOL!!!) so, I just put it in my blog...
This is the second one, from the blue-book!
I have fallen into the busy route of life,
I have started summing up my balance sheet
I don't have the time to sit back and think
To juts wonder about the beautiful world
To just think about love,dream and affection
I have started pushing my way through the crowd
I don't have the time to stop and gaze
At all the marvellous things of God
But I know He is the only one
Who is consistent and true
For He has never deserted me even when I did
I cried till my heart melted
When I realized my own stupidity
When others refused for a commitment
Then I knew, truths were not truth at all
It was more than enough, when earth under me slipped away
Then there I found Him comforting me
He asked me to stop patching-up
For all those which were not my faults
He asked me to go straight, shoulders up towards Him,
Now I find truth, I feel His power
It is so constant for He is always at my cry
He is so true, for I've found so many masks by now!!!!
Swathi, thanks first complement in this new year,Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we have to take chances since Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
ReplyDeletefinally both ur Poems r good, keep it up, swathi have faith on ur self, realize ur strenghts, u can still write some more good poems coomon ur next blog should be the poem wat u have written at 28 years and that too today
Hmm... I had a feeling when I read the first "prom" that its author may be yourself... but i dint wanted to make any wild guesses! But I always knew that the emotional strength which you possess rt now, might have grown in you from your childhood! Keep it up, it was a good "prom"!
ReplyDeleteGood poems...
ReplyDeleteI see lot of hidden talent in you,
Keep up the spirit and wishing you
to come up with more poetry with
Italian back drop,this year..
Good Post!!
O my gosh! I didn't expect such response...thanks a lot!!! Hmmm was I a child prodigy?(LOL)
ReplyDeleteAravind-----I don't think I can write poems any more. We r very sensitive when we r kids, so at that time experiences leads to creativity. I am not so sensitive anymore. But I wont say NO, I will try !!
Aswathy----thanks!!! About my emotional strength this is what durga says " that which is fire-born, wont feel sun-burn", which is a translated saying in malayalam ("theeyil kuruthathu veyilathu vaadilla").ha...ha..ha
Note: durga is my frnd for past 5 yrs and aswathi is my cousin (more like a friend)
Chandra----thanks!! Will try to write poem, cos for me it will be a very BIG try!! Lol
-swathi
swathi it was a surprise.those are very nice and i wonder how u stopped writing.i too ask you to write more.will b looking for more such kinda proms.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice when u read your own writings after a long time....Good If you want to post anything to yourself in the future write letter in www.futureorg.com It will be on your mail box the day u want to see in the future
ReplyDeleteNice poetry...
ReplyDeletehe he he ....even my first thought was that it must be urs....then i wrote something stupid........now i think even i can write poem....or at least lyrics for the indian films songs( see those stupid songs coming now a days).....well hats of for that young poet...do u have pic of that cute kid :)
ReplyDeleteHmmmm.I am confused.I can't say which one is better .Ur poem or ur mind.Boths are par excellance.U are so refined now.But this poem shows the real u ie the basic character.
ReplyDeletepradeep, came, tanvi...thanks alot...
ReplyDeleterohit...i dont have her photo, at that age,sorry!!
chanakya....thanks..yea, i was very raw,then..not even completely refined now,still on the process of it!!!
Another SWATHI THIRUNNAL?
ReplyDeleteI wish it come true