I sat down slow.
Pencil in hand
and
love on a platter,
and thought about how
I may reach you
beyond, and deeper
than mere chatter,
convince you,
that the intricacies,
the struggle, the ache
you feel,
I feel,
is just as temporary
as full stomached satisfaction
and the hearts that melt in our hugs.
We're always turning
our heads away
in the wrong direction,
looking ‘neath the flowers
at thorny torment,
glancing above the cookies
to see more space in the jar,
growing, to get over.
What sounds inside
takes me to task, asks,
with every silver lining
don't tell me
you don't see the clouds?
To which I say
I do,
but that isn't
what the sky is about.
I wonder then,
that when I say,
the world is a tad sweeter
with you in it
and that you live
in someone's smile
and mine
will you believe it?
just for a short while,
that you're a gift
worth every dime
and life has wanted you
and waited a long,
long time to love you.
Oh to see the world from
ReplyDeleteThe eyes of a young eager soul
No scratch no scar
No blemish to behold
A childlike curiosity
Yet a world with such depth
The cocky confidence
Of a youth adept
Tentative discovery of emotions
Distilled thoughts sublime
Like smelling wet earth
For the very first time
- Dear Utsa
I really enjoyed tiptoeing through your blog. Keep writing.
Dear Utsa, I enjoyed reading your poetry. Kowing how young you are I can feel the perfume of your adulthood.
ReplyDeleteVery sensitive: “How I may reach you. Beyond and deeper than mere chatter”. With a questioning mind: “honesty? honesty”. And very clear and courageous on your objetives: “I pace. It’s not that hard I tell myself.”
I wish you success. May your poetry go around the world and inspire many.
Gloria Arieira
Teacher of Vedanta
Brazil
The poem, Hey, look at the Cookie is an invitation to see the essence of life. Our earthly loves and relations are fleeting as full stomached satisfaction. Cookie refers to the sweetness and beauty of our life. Our life is not something to get over with. It's to be lived to the full and lived meaningfully. But we need to be dispassionate in our loves. The poet sees her loved one in her own smile and in the smiles of others. It's a spiritual realization to see oneself in everyone and everything around her. The poet jolts us into such spiritul relizations through expressions such as ' but that's not what the sky is about', ' as temporary as full stomached satisfaction', and ' the hearts that melt in our hugs'. The poet exhorts us not to see life as empty baubles, but to see it as a delectable and meaningful experience. The poet asks us to be exhilarated by the beauty of life that blooms around us and within and not to get bruised by the thorns of life. The key to the beauty and meaning of life lies in loving and being involved with life, but still remain unaffected. When our love expands to embrace all humanity, we will see that life becomes more profound and deeper just as the sky takes us beyond the clouds to the vastness and profundity of life.
ReplyDeleteGreat Utsa, your poems are well wrought out and have depth. Keep writing
Joyson C. J