Events Such As Women
August 19, 2008
Sacred scattering of vermilion.
An ebb of dark red blood from my liver.
Differences in the same colour
of morning sky before sunrise.
A conch-shell blows.
All around, the commencement
of mornings and marriages.
Sounds of death southward.
Crows and their echo of caws.
Hopeful, a new day breaks.
Absence of mourners
for an abandoned carcass.
Each new morning:
Another segment of anticipation.
A wave of joyous burst
or perhaps unveiled ugliness.
Life, like water, flows into me
and takes my shape.
Events, like women, have
layers and layers of faces.
© 2007 Ritwik Banerjee
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Entry Filed under: Poetry, art, literature, pain, perspective. Tags: bitterness, hatred, morning, poem.
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1.
kim | August 19, 2008 at 1:53 pm
“Crows and their echo of caws.
Hopeful, a new day breaks.
Absence of mourners
for an abandoned carcass.”
this is a fantastic stanza. i love the absence of mourners…
kim
Reply: Glad you liked it!
- ritwik
2.
siubhan | August 19, 2008 at 9:12 pm
i liked this a lot– how one statement follows close on the heels of the next and despite the short crispness of the lines, there’s no disconnection in thought. the last stanza especially; love the comparisons.
Reply: Thank you for your encouraging inputs. The last stanza is my favourite as well. It reflects a certain amount of misogyny that I did not realize while writing it down.
- ritwik
3.
Tara | August 21, 2008 at 4:33 pm
This has a sense of how everything touches and yet leaves only an invisible fingerprint. Somehow, within the fingerprint, life thrives knowing there is a constant and common communication between us all. I find this a lovely creation.
Makes me smile reading it.
T
Reply: It’s great to have a reader liking my poem. I had something different in mind while I wrote it, but, well, it’s poetry . . . multiple interpretations and all that, right?
- ritwik
4.
neha | September 2, 2008 at 10:15 am
wow… the picture you portray is so graphical…
very nice… life is like water… so true… it flows so beautifully sometimes so violently sometimes
Reply: Thanks Neha. I am glad that you liked the metaphorical usage of water in the last stanza.
- ritwik