Wednesday, 31 July 2013

What to do with tears

Catch them in a cup
a brittle receptacle
porcelain that dissolves with lie
shatters with greed’s immemorial caress;
hold them in a palm
life to the new sun
and rays that bend and fall away;
pool them on soils
fertilized by first love’s
soft footprints;
scatter them upon miseries and joys
from yesterday and tomorrow;
it matters not,
as long as tears,
water the dryness of absences,
all of them
lost, laid waste
erased from map and memory.

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  1. I got the tears
    to my palm
    and read the poem
    as sweet as I can...
    whispering lines
    of the broken heart
    open her voice
    as sweet as she can.....
    can you read the
    other few lines
    ‘handling the way
    the drops am I holding '

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    1. equally beautiful, 'anonymous'! :)

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  2. ……but for an ocean of tears, this solution is hardly applicable

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  3. let the tears water the dryness of heart...:)

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    1. Heart is already drenched in tears, that they appear as dew drops dawn forgot to smile upon!

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    2. oh, in that event, sending hugs your way...you are smiling now..aren't you? :)

      Have a good day!

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  4. When the Pain in the Heart is to much to take the body emits the pain away as Tears....

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