Thursday, 9 October 2014

wondering with lillies




Image Courtesy: Our Garden

silently building each petal

trying to bring symmetry

resembling but not resembling

standing apart yet binding

are they pretending?

water swallowing the pretense

sky reflecting the difference

earth defending the difference

it's just happening




topic: Verbal Cubism



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14 comments:

  1. Unknown9 October 2014 at 23:52

    Beautifully written! :)

    Cheers,
    Ankush.

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  2. Sumana Roy10 October 2014 at 00:45

    Arathi, I really love how it's happening...

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  3. Rosemary Nissen-Wade10 October 2014 at 00:58

    Fabulous title. And the poem is sweet, and I think I am on the verge of understanding the meaning, but ...

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  4. brudberg10 October 2014 at 02:06

    Like Resemary says.. it's close to being understandable.. I love the quote you brought in from Gertrude Stein.. subtle and gave it a new meaning.

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  5. Brian Miller10 October 2014 at 03:33

    yeah, i can follow yours really well....it is pretty cool how flowers and such grow in symmetry....cool piece arathi

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  6. Jae Rose10 October 2014 at 07:10

    Sometimes witnessing what happens means more than picking the petals apart and asking how and why...certainly that's where beauty lies

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  7. Glenn Buttkus10 October 2014 at 07:59

    All that was missing was a conversation with the flowers, asking them what they thought about football, sex, education for girls, Sarah Palin, butterscotch pudding, & tumbleweeds; nice job.

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  8. Anonymous10 October 2014 at 08:45

    Groovy piece. Love- " water swallowing the pretense / sky reflecting the difference"

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  9. Claudia10 October 2014 at 10:31

    it is cool how they grow in such a symmetric way...fascinates me as well

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  10. Vinay Leo R.10 October 2014 at 11:17

    Lovely take :) I could almost picture it.

    Will attempt the form sometime too.

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  11. Grace10 October 2014 at 16:27

    I think I understand this line: water swallowing the pretense - Good one Arathi ~

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  12. Mary10 October 2014 at 19:05

    As long as earth defends the difference we are okay! Smiles.

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  13. Gabriella10 October 2014 at 19:07

    Resembling yet different. This is so true! I guess these differences is what makes the world richer.

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  14. Ginny Brannan13 October 2014 at 05:34

    "standing apart yet binding"
    I think of "each different, yet united"
    I liked that one line a lot.

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