this summer ...


..for fuck’s sake, let us go through that,
the way we sipped hot tea on a sidewalk
in sweltering Delhi heat to cool off,
a paradox we can swear by;
witnessed at high noon beside me
your shadow casts a trivial shadow
baring the world ahead as a matter of fact
thus I can return zigzagging between
lurid darkness and nebulous nothingness
to the shell and husk of you
lying on my bed after I had watched
the love and the person walk out,
leaving only a stale periphery of
what had gone by to show off, and puff
a cigarette, sun filtering through curtains
as caressing fingers resting on eyelids
cerulean smoke diluting in golden haze
shrugging you off with a poem,
like everything in the brazen past,
which appeared rosy in remoteness..

18 comments:

amazing stuff, this. liked the last 4 lines. bravo!

April 25, 2011 3:38 AM  

Thanks Sahil, its great to appreciated by the award winning writer :D

April 25, 2011 3:43 AM  

hmmm.... "f****'s sake" this is new!!! ...lol... Divya I think you should get out of posting on the 'after' you might as well post the 'bliss' which I'm sure would be a better read!!!

April 25, 2011 5:58 AM  

I did post on the 'bliss' too.. you missed it.. it was there on fb notes and is also here .. http://rustic-rhapsody.blogspot.com/2011/02/duets-revisted.html .. though it seldom comes.. and some of us also discussed why we aren't able to write when we are happy .. a poetic malady I guess... pleasure and poem don;t tango well .. at least not with me.

April 25, 2011 6:05 AM  

"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest, thought." Shelly.

How are you, Aria? I still follow your blog regularly but not able to comment.
warm regards.

April 25, 2011 6:27 AM  

heyyy Nash.. am so glad to see you.. I thought you've forgotten me and terminal moraine.. yes am alright and trust you are also doing well .. thanks and take care .. :)

April 25, 2011 6:35 AM  

There are parallels I see between the state of mind of the woman who wrote this, and what I am going through these days. And it does provide quite a lot of solace aria. Very well written as always.

April 25, 2011 8:06 AM  

aah.. thanks a lot for the lovely comment.. :)

April 25, 2011 9:31 AM  

Brilliant as ever, Aria!

I reiterate that you need to get them published, even so much if they intend to remain part of a personal memoir not meant for circulation!

April 25, 2011 7:38 PM  

Rakesh.. thank you! will certainly do so.. :D

April 25, 2011 8:43 PM  

Take a puff,
Take a sniff,
See the cold and cerulean,
The hot and sanguine-
Merge-Diverge-Emerge.
Them, out and off, purge,
With an adrenaline surge.

April 28, 2011 2:51 AM  

I look for love the ecstasy of which would just fall short of the highest orgasm... or maybe for that where ecstasy will never cease to end... an ever lasting affair without the fall.
Love that begins, peaks and then wanes away, that is too short to live for.

Nice read.

Cheers,
Blasphemous Aesthete

April 30, 2011 12:39 AM  

You capture the mood quite well in your verses.
The expressions are quite lucid. How about writing something which is left unsaid ?

May 9, 2011 11:43 PM  

amazing stuff......how you come up with this girl...sometimes i read ur stuff and some memory of my past comes back to me!!!!

June 5, 2011 9:21 AM  

Very nice, but now I am hot and require some iced tea to counter the steamy scene in hot city.

June 9, 2011 3:01 PM  

After long time..i could see your mind.The creative tension and the confusion mind doesn't want to solve.Let it be,though i never agree with the abuse of the body with tobacco or such stuff in reality..as body is always wiser than mind.So for the sake of the mind it is not wise.
But about the write,do I have to say it.
Brilliant!

July 7, 2011 1:04 AM  

this is brilliant :) i could visualize the scene and thats the beauty of good poetry !!

September 15, 2011 7:14 AM  

Thank you Yashasvi.. and welcome to my blog :)

September 17, 2011 9:58 AM  

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