Monday, October 16, 2006

Secret

Night.
Sounds silhouette silence.
Signs of clockwork,
Lanterns,
Cries,
Wrath,
Shackles.
All signs dissolved.
Into a bone cloaking froth.
Skin begins to sear.
Feet meander on winding roads
Craving for the mirror muffled
By a sense of emptiness.

Children sleep.
They must, or I will talk to them.
Sleep.
Wonderful sleep.
Dust ridden, sweaty sleep.
Under layers kept trim.
Fragments neatly swept under
The below.
An oblivion.

Words undulate,
Die, before they are strung together.
The gallows advanced.
Iron sooner, earth sooner.Fragments sooner.
Money sooner.
Neat, bloodless death.
Embryonic.
In the head.
Near eyes unreliable,
Hair useless,
Ears numb with silhouettes,
Bones bald, overwhelmed,
Limbs migrating.

Above, a sack of fragments
Asleep.
Above.
Passions injected,
Skin felt by skin,
Language washed out,
Eyes devouring,
Hands running over crevices,
Mouths sucking into emptiness.
Celebrating.
Bones clumped.
Blood flows.
Orderly, directed flow
And primitive rhythm.
Like children wallowing
In fresh bodies
With no memory, nor love.
Dust smiting them slowly.
Slow, like serendipity unnoticed.
Rain drenching them to the bone,
Skin yielding to the silvery percolation.
Greys intriguing.
Greys denied, loved for assumed absence.
Scars mild, camouflaged.
Wallowing in a psychedelic dream,
Almost sensual. Carnal, to the mind and body.

Lacerate my skin.
Shred my threads of order, flow and purpose.
Burn the numbness.
Singe the cysts.
Break me into a million pieces.

Litres of blood to resurrection,
Before the wake of the other psychedelic dream
Fresh psychedelic dream.

8 comments:

Nabanita said...

Litres of blood to resurrection,
Before the wake of the other psychedelic dream
Fresh psychedelic dream.
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Neat, bloodless death.
Embryonic.
In the head.

i loved it....really awesome....

Subhrajyoti Mukhopadhyay said...

Your poetry is very contemporary .
A lot of contemporary literature speaks of feminism , I find it in your poetry.
You stress on words ,the speech is shadowy and scarred along the way of approach.
Keep it up ! Modern poetry is so very fascinating at times.

Shashi Iyer said...

Nabanita,
Thank you. I'm glad you loved it. I only wish that somebody will hate it with the kind of passion that went in.

Euphoric Dreamer,
I don't seek any shade or label. It just turned out this way. This one certainly didn't have any element of feminism, as I saw it. Most of my other works do, overtly, express feminism. I don't know what to make out of your comment. Perhaps you will explain. Thanks, anyway.

Lucifer said...

This is one of the best poems I have ever read.

It was simply mindblowing!

Strangely, it reminded me of Linkin Park in a way, don't know why.

And yes, keep up the good work.

Vivek Panda said...

another masterpiece.. u never stop filling me with awe by ur stunning gift of expressions ! i was totally absorbed by this one.

akaash said...

so you are back. good for it. i had always craved for your poetry.

i "hated it with the amount of hate that went in." linkin park? i agree.

what a world we live in, shashi, isn't it? may be it's gonna be destroyed someday. i pray that it happens pretty soon. i pray the pains, the writhes with all their angst comes to a dead end pretty soon.

we need a shiva.

hope he's listening.


vivek's right. this work of yours is very "absorbing". do you know why? because it's "detailed" and it doesn't pose abreak in concentration for the reader till it ends. feelings flow.

your writing flows, shashi. it starts and it ends just like that, ..coming a full serpent circle saying nothing, concluding nothing but expressing everything.

keep up the good work.

what hapenned to your "Calcutta"?

[i am so sorry to have left you that day, midway through the chat. hope you remember. some unavoidables hapenned. i had to log off.]

Shashi Iyer said...

The Nameless One, Vivek Panda,
Thank you so much.

Akaash,
I don't hate the world. This one is about me. My poems have always been me. This came out as I gave in to temptation to just accept...

akaash said...

thank you, shashi.

you know, ever since the time i have joined this blog i have never


..ceased to learn humility!


you are right!


who are WE to seek wrong in this world.

we should always look to seek that in


...OURSELVES!!