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Wednesday 10 October 2012

WIRE



Thin
taut-able, bendable
line and particle aggregate
made for walking
meant to stop
made to break
and sing,
wire is heart-string
and thought-stream
metaphor for entanglement
simple sibling
of a human twin
that will not laugh
but can be made to smile
at a pinch. 

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10 comments :

  1. Is this another poem of 'give me a word' series?

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    1. Malinda, although its of no reference to Wire, I thought I should comment on your write up on your father which was posted somewhere in November last year. Its the concluding line which moved me profoundly: My father; he is a child, my appachchi." It was so beautiful coming deep from a child's heart with no poetic finer points.
      I often wonder why we are so helpless with words when it comes to people who are so precious.... words dont come easy...

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  2. wire me not
    No not my eyes or words
    a canvas of the world..
    wired, barbed
    rusty with arrogance
    unwire the fence
    and be pinched

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  3. about precious people...such people/moments puts us face to face with the poverty of expression. and so we resort to the other, time-tested, and infinitely more eloquent language. silence.

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  4. Correct Malinda, the more eloquent language is silence. Silence speaks volumes, doesn't it?

    Silence- penetrates word
    making word a poor player
    twin of eye gaze- direct or down
    one word, one gesture
    compensating beyond comparison

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  5. Malinda, why are your poems confined to this 'give me a word' series now? Please post self-inspired verse again...

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  6. I agree with the above comment. Why restricting your verse to this exercise? By the way Malinda what kindled this exercise?

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  7. Then please post a verse 'away from this series'....

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