31 Mar 2010
A Drop of Rain
Splash it does
On the window
As you stare
Frozen and blank
It slides, fleets
And dissolves
As time and life
Fritter away
Splash it does
On the window
As you stare
And blink not
At times gentle
Balmy and candid
As the smile
Of a baby
At times violent
Devoid of mercy
As the fire
Of wrath
At times quiet
Stealthy as whisper
Armed with calm
Of the woods
At times dreary
Cold as death
And dark as
Depth of gloom
Falling from heavens
Where your dreams fly
On to this Earth
Where you belong
Splash it does
On sand and rocks
On flowers and grass
On glass and faces
Splash it does
On the window
As you stare
Frozen and blank
With dabs tender
Reveries it stirs
It spares the glass
But breaks your heart
And it slides, fleets
And dissolves
As time and life
Fritter away
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By Oblivion:
6 Apr 2010, 12:34am [ Reply ]
@Raymond P: Thanks, Sir! That was too generous.
I appreciate that you have been teaching Math for quite a few years. If you are friends with Perelman (Grigory), please tell him I quite admire him.
By Raymond P:
1 Apr 2010, 1:05pm [ Reply ]
I have studied Math all my life and have been teaching it for a little more than half of it. I'm pushing 60, FYI. I don't remember when was the last time I felt like this, but I feel, this day, a strange presence of something beautiful. I had shielded myself against all abstractions and dreams, but this knocked me! There's an ache I can't explain. And to think that it is by sheer accident that I found this blog!
Exceptional. I won't be able to get over with the penultimate stanza for a long time! This, being at the fag end of life. Thanks!
By oblivion:
1 Apr 2010, 11:03am [ Reply ]
@luckychinna: thanks, luckychinna!
By luckychinna:
31 Mar 2010, 11:35pm [ Reply ]
beautiful. loved it. especially the lines abt sparing the glass and "breaks your heart" bit...