This moment’s an allegory,
which nobody knows,
no one understands.
It stammers and rattles,
and speaks everything at once.
A risk to read its writing:
the helices, loops and vanishing ink.
Not certain that it’s itself,
no one else, not another moment.
This moment’s a metaphor,
growing like thirst in a desert,
like noise in a mega-city,
like hydrocarbon emissions,
like the population,
like the prologue of this story.
It’s warmer than midday air,
colder than water,
faster than a shooting star,
gentler than a zephyr.
This moment's an allegory;
It stammers and rattles,
and speaks everything at once.
Copyright©2005, Debashish Haar, All rights reserved
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love Tinka
It’s warmer than midday air,
colder than water,
faster than a shooting star,
gentler than a zephyr.
"Moment" This is something that is incredibly important to me. We spend much of our lives running in circles, rushing from place to place. It can be harmful and hurtful to ourselves and those around us because when we do not create a "Moment in time" we eventually reach a place in which we are less thoughtful, less feeling and less aware of what is happening around us. "Moments in time" are those occasions in which we are able to push aside the concerns of daily life and focus on ourselves, friends, family and the inner spirituality that connects us.
I think that it is fair to say that we have all had some "Moments in time." Very Powerful Analogy in this poem.
Your creative craft and mind at work capturing a moment before it is gone and making it singular in time.
Peace,
Josie
Bill
It stammers and rattles,
and speaks everything at once.
And it's quite powerful, Debashish.
Reindeer