Sunday, March 05, 2006

Story of the sky.

Weaving a story,
these clouds cotton.
Seeming to be contradictions
Infinite.
Lapping up all the colours.
Looking bright and blue.
Huge and tender.

Dull golden.
Dignified radiance.
So fiercely silent.
Do they dream all day ?
Little and the big ones.
Nomads.

I look to my left,
orange and yellow.
On my right,
blue and violet.
Just above me,
lot of grey.
Do they tell a story ?

story of my life ?
But there are corners,
where i see black.
Enemy of the clouds?

As i write,
they all split.
They all spread.
They form a great web.
A giant paw.
Smell of the sinister
A plot against me ?

The distant yellow fades..
A sly wind through my hair.

leaves rustling
Birds fly past.
The messengers.
and I know,
its an arrival.

As the time walks by.
Breeze gets heavy.
Darkness strengthens.
Clouds, I see in a different light.
So vast as the mountains.
So grey and threatening.
Settling just above me.
Then I see distant lights.
Flashes of pain ?
Someone screaming ?
Whats the story?
Whats the story?
Oh my dear, its just the rain.


10 comments:

theju said...

Wow!!

Shishir said...

Cool...

Deepak said...

Sounds like a series of haikus...

Too many prepositions and articles though.

Pallavi said...

theju, jet and stargazzer
thanks a million !

deep,
well had never known abt haikus till u mentioned... :)
well.. i just wrote what i felt as i sat on the roof top joblessly looking at the sky...
just tried to add layers to whatever i thot abt the same...!!

Shishir said...

Sit on the roof sometime in the night... It'll be a better poetic environment...

wateverr

Unknown said...

A nice piece.. keep going!

Arjun Mohan said...

stumbled across ur blog by chance......nice poem, u have a profoundness in your language, please don't ditch this talent and write more

Poo said...

I broke the suspense by checking the last line of the poem.. And then started from the beginning... Good one... Very impressive flow of words and writing...

Piyush Sethia said...

Ma'am, you write well :) And I see, you have quite a fan following ;)

Unknown said...

Wow!! Very impressive..
its really nice one...