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We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are comely!

Who are we, O Thou soul of our souls,
that we should remain in being beside thee?

We and our existences are really non-existence;
thou art the absolute Being which manifests the perishable.

We all are lions, but lions on a banner:
because of the wind they are rushing onward from moment to moment.

Their onward rush is visible, and the wind is unseen:
may that which is unseen not fail from us!

Our wind whereby we are moved and our being are of thy gift;
our whole existence is from thy bringing into being.

~ Rumi, Masnavi Book I- 599-607

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Sunday, 24 May 2009

Dice


Dice


1.

daybreak 
and your leaf voice

salt
and snow

sirens 
from a childhood road

feather and snow

I'm still there, queen.

2.

doors of silence,

a child calls me 
rain poet,

walk

the map may change
while you
sleep

melt

are you 
still looking for answers?

3.

distant moon.

we are sitting in the rain,
girl

we are singing, unafraid

a dice is spinning
in the air

girl, you are weeping

and your grief
takes 
the trees 
by surprise, 

and strokes the bougainvillea,
gently

earth, moon and us,

at the mercy of another light.


7 comments:

Deeptesh said...

Love the way you play with a forlorn and mystic sensuousness here....the beckoning of objects long lost and distant.It evokes a sense of melancholy and haunting nostalgia. And your diction as always exudes the magic flashes of surrealism.

ishani said...

"a child calls me
rain poet"...

beautiful line.

thank god they're not gonna give ur poetry to analyze in JU admission test. :P

u're on the way.

Snow said...

"earth, moon and us,



at the mercy of another light."


ethereal.
the only word that comes to mind.

Sujoy Bhattacharjee said...

Lives meet and part and touch each other...memories of ages past....the remnants of painful relationships. This is really good.

panu said...

distant.

very.

Shahwar Kibria said...

"a dice is spinning in the air"

has an air of apocalyptic eerieness about it!!!

"the map may change while you sleep
melt
are you still looking for answers"

*goosebumps*

fin.

rajdeep bhattacharya said...

speechless, i must say
do read my recent one
truth part 3rd
http://journeyofmysoul-rajdeep.blogspot.com/