Friday, February 18, 2005

Morning (C)Rush

I saw a red shoe-flower on the tar road, the Latin name of a flower that still stays in my mind. So bloomed and full of life And so striking the contrast was that such a beautiful sight it was. If the road was a living thing it would feel as we would, when we hold a newborn in our arms. But within nanoseconds my thoughts withered I knew it was in danger. It didn’t know where to go. In its undefined path, it was all astray. I neither had the time nor thought to save it. This time, within even lesser than a nanosecond A truck came rushing in. It crushed the flower Under its rugged black tyre. Now all I see is a crumpled object Like the one that has been thrown from a frustrated poet.

7 comments:

  1. hey..nice one....!
    but now a days even poets are using comps...no more heaps of crumpled papers... :)

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  2. thanks for the comment sriram!! well the actual thing that came to my mind was a scene from any movie where a lover tries to draft a letter to his beloved and struggling to get the right words. anyway as u said nowadays emails rule.

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  3. i am unable to post a comment on ur blog...but to say bout the
    poem.....excellent...i have felt this some times, when u come along
    the cit colony into the anna saalai, where there are lots of this
    Yellow flowering trees n the flowers would all b scattered in the
    road....even i have run my bike over them n each time i do it, i would
    have some feeling....i couldnt explain it...but u have tried to do
    it...n it has come out well.

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  4. ohh...sorry this is the same text, that i mailed u...i didnt correct t'm...now iam able to comment on ur blog...ofcourse now u know that...sorry

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  5. Hi, i did see ur comment on my post titled "beautiful minds". Thanks!
    And yeah,
    when i read this poem of urs, I just couldn't help linking it to a deeper meaning..the duality that exists in this world, in many forms - the rich and the poor, the mighty and the weak, to quote a few. Nice one!

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  6. 'If the road was a living thing
    it would feel as we would,
    when we hold a newborn in our arms.'--nallairuku!!! idhu endha road lae
    maheshc.

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  7. Krishna - thanks a lot for ur comment. I haven’t felt the same way for all flowers (maybe didn’t quite register as there wud have been many then) but this one - it hit me quite well and got sequence registered quite well!!!

    REFLEX - tht was a cute comment!!! :-) thanks

    Hey anu!!! that was a quick response. thanks for visiting - well to tell u the truth, ur deeper meaning kinda went over my heads :-( - either way cool!!!

    mahesh - ithu vanthu namba MGR nagar-kku pora road da - to be precise the main road that we have to travel through, when we go to sarasu akka's house.

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