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Posted: 9 years ago
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Originally posted by: indranigupta

The melancholic soul and the atmosphere that you have created beagle...needs further reading...I wish you get it published somewhere..

Evoking an ambiance which is both dull and grey and yet beautiful ...to render the pain within ...a soul trying to break free of mind-forged manacles (Blake's words)...is to say the least full of possibilities...

I loved the way you used all the known icons of melancholic temper to make it into your own...


Awesome beagle...
Lovely👏

PS: For you beagle...a poem by American poetess, Emily Dickenson:

After great pain, a formal feeling comes -
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs -
The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,'
And Yesterday, or Centuries before'?

The Feet, mechanical, go round -
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought -
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone -

This is the Hour of Lead -
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow -
First - Chill - then Stupor - then the letting go -


Thanks Indrani. I like Dickenson. I'm collating all my poems. Maybe one day I'll get them published. 😃









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Posted: 9 years ago
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Originally posted by: AyeChavanni


Beagle, this was a FINE piece. Absolutely beautiful <3
It is you guys that really keep pulling me back to the show.
BTW has the show gotten better this week? I haven't watched since Shravan beat Adi up at the wedding.


I haven't watched either. But from what I read, I don't think I want to. See, the very reason I started to watch this serial - a certain integrity in characters - is now absent. No matter how we justify the script, I don't think such deep thought goes into the writing.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Written a while ago. For those who like my work.

If Only

If only I stopped feeding a voracious appetite
for drugs that cloaked my thoughts with black,
I would have noticed that
the sky today was partial to grey
and had wrapped herself in
expansive fur, soft and white.
If only I had stepped out, I may have seen the diamonds glisten
at the edges of her coat.
Perhaps I would have caught her unawares;
stolen a glance
at the shy sky, brilliant blue peeking through the white.

If only I had stopped my feet running,
trying to dodge cobwebs in a maze,
I would have noticed that the trees, fresh from their meeting with frost,
were preparing for a long sleep,
for the earth was covered in the footprints of Autumn.
If only my feet had held still and I had paused to look,
perhaps I would have found colours of the seasons gone by
under the colourless sheet.

If only I can believe that I am not really
a great mountain or the mighty sky,
I can find true greatness
within
and around.
I can give without asking in return,
I can tell what I really see,
I can be what I want to be
Undeterred by what others may want to see.

For I am not meant to move mountains
or even little hills,
I could be deepest edge of an ocean
undiscovered still.
I don't have to be a star shining in the galaxy,
just a warm thought in someone,
or a memory that brings a smile,
that would last a long after
the star has lost its shine.

But if only!
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Wow, beautifully written Beagle...too good 👏
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Beagle...this is stupendous..👏👏
Its very difficult to come across good poetry in today's prosaic times...It was wonderful to read it..."Poetry begins with a lump in the throat" was how Robert Frost described the poet's writing process.
Its a very intimate process and if the writing can let us delve into that mind...it makes the experience very satisfying as if the reader has a peek into the mind of the writer.

Lovely..enjoyed reading it...



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Posted: 9 years ago
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Originally posted by: sanfan

Beagle...this is stupendous..👏👏

Its very difficult to come across good poetry in today's prosaic times...It was wonderful to read it..."Poetry begins with a lump in the throat" was how Robert Frost described the poet's writing process.
Its a very intimate process and if the writing can let us delve into that mind...it makes the experience very satisfying as if the reader has a peek into the mind of the writer.

Lovely..enjoyed reading it...




Thank you. It is a deeply personal process, and hence my note earlier to Chick that it is less Sumo and a LOT of me.

So, I thank everyone who has appreciated the poems.

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