Song of my life: August 2008

Wind

- Friday, August 22, 2008

Wind

gaily

plays around

With flower flirts

Rake!

Conversations I

In a place unto itself ,

Hidden deep inside me ,

In city of lost dreams

We hold ceaseless conversations

This is an example of Naani so is the earlier post.

Naani is one of Indian's most popular Telugu poems. 
Naani means an expression of one and all.
It consists of 4 lines, the total lines consists of 20 to 25 syllables. 
The poem is not bounded toa particular subject. 
Generally it depends upon human relations and current statements.

Conversation

Conversation,
Leaden with pauses

Longer than the night
Resonates with unexpressed unformed thoughts.

The heady scent of night flowers blooming,

Dusky sky studded with tiny stars

Whispering winds hold unuttered

Secret desires, longings

resonating silence,

Leaden with passion

beholden me

await your

piquant

touch

P.S: This type of poetry is called Etheree or rather Reverse Etheree.

The poetry form, Etheree, consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables.
Etheree can also be reversed and written 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Or get creative and write Double Etheree:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
10, 9, 8, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

...Triple Etheree, Quadruple Etheree, and so on!

Friends

Neeraja Nagarajan

Second to none!

sweetest soul- closest to me

Though bored she always pretend to be

Vishal Shakher

Lazing in his lair

Sings songs of unknown meter

None can ever be more sweeter

P.S: This type of verse is called : Clerihew

A Clerihew is a comic verse consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme,
aabb. The poem is about/deals with a person/character within the first rhyme.
In most cases, the first line names a person, and the second line ends with
something that rhymes with the name of the person.

This night

This night
Dark, secretive
ignite passion, languid
shadows of past haunt, come alive
ebon

P.S: This type of poetry is called : Cinquain

Cinquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed
as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines.

Line 1: Noun
Line 2: Description of Noun
Line 3: Action
Line 4: Feeling or Effect
Line 5: Synonym of the initial noun.

Fire and Ice

fire,
fiery red,
clawing, dancing, burning
racing high, gliding by
chilling, freezing, melting,
rigid, silver
ice

P.S: I am trying to explore different types of poetry.. this type is called : Diamante

This type of poetry is diamond in shape namely has 1-2-3-4-3-2-1 type of structure, where the number denotes the number of words. Also, they have to follow following rules:

```
 First line:   Noun or subject
```

 Second line:  Two Adjectives describing the first noun/subject

 Third line:   Three -ing words describing the first noun/subject

 Fourth line:  4 words; two about the first noun/subject, two about the antonym/synonym

 Fifth line:   Three -ing words about the antonym/synonym

 Sixth line:   Two adjectives describing the antonym/synonym

 Seventh line: Antonym/synonym for the subject

Hope you guys would also try this one :)

Dawn n Dreams

Dreams, they never last
like mystical tune lingers
dawn arrives, so fast

Impasse

- Thursday, August 14, 2008

A moment apart;
Waves soar high, crash.. fade away
Death ...life... at impasse

A haiku :)

Tears of sun,
Scorches, cheeks of earth
Man ???.... Helpless!!

Will you ever?

- Friday, August 08, 2008

Sometimes may be,
deep in the night
Across the seven seas,
into my dreams slowly,
Will you ever arrive?
Just may be ?

while the moon blushes,
behind the cloud;
the gentle wind rustles the leaves,
Memories heady like raat rani,
An unheeded symphony

Will you paint them red?
those dreams flowers,
tantalizing, fragrant,
vagrants blooming,
In my head !

Will you ever?

P.S: Thank you Anoop for the editing