Showing posts with label conversation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conversation. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Insomniac

Let us talk about insomnia

at 3:15 am.   A dark bird sits on my bed


& wants to talk about his ambition.   I am 

curious, where does ambition come from?


Is it a seed that suddently grows into

giant tree out of my head?  Is it a slow


painting of canvas, taking shape, defining my face?

The bird wants to climb Japan's Mount Fiji.


The bird wants the fancy feathers of peacock.

And fling himself to the moon.


His ambition is burning his feet after jumping

over fire stones after piercing the hornet's nest


Well I had enough of the bird chatter dream

I want to talk about my ambition - that 


fire within me that refuses to die when an idea

Comes to me, like a buzzing bee 


over the blooming yellow daffodils

Deafening sounds, lively chitter-chatter  


As my heartbeat is running faster and 

faster.  Sleep is forgotten library book.  


My feet are itching for calm after 

leaping into the air, like a gazelle


bounding out to the open fields

My spine tingles as if a lover's touch


stole my sleepy head.   Finally 

dawn comes with pink hues and holds


a giant mirror to my small idea bulb, 

now scribbled with crooked arrows.   Will I survive 


the scrunity of harsh reality? Dark bird, remind me 

again, where does ambition come from?    


Come to me in circles.  

Come to me, piercing my bosom.





Posted for dVerse Poets Pub- Poetics hosted by Sanaa Rizvi.   The theme is Maggie Smith and Conversational Mode of Address.  Thanks for your comments and visits.

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Sculptured conversations

sky,
chisel my face
incomplete, as if part of me
is out there, screaming to be found
under the tangles and mayhem of city's life 

wind, 
bear me down
among the wildgrass & wheat field
peel away my gilded fancy words & tarnish
my crown of perfect life & complete answers

clouds,
teach me 
grains of vulnerability, humility
the grateful sway of your seasons, wisp of breath
that comes with fragile moments,  never to return 


as i lay 
down my mask,
cast my name to the lake
teach me to run again freely
& never fear facing the man I am



Photo by pixabay.com 


Posted for D'verse Poets Pub - Poetics:   Chisel me a conversation : Hosted by Lillian ~  We are invited to have a conversation with the artist or becoming the sculpture itself. 

Monday, February 21, 2011

On Communication: Let's chat~

I was attending a party with friends when I noticed two young teens seated beside each other.
You would think they would be talking to each other.   Well the adults were.  
The teens were looking and playing with their phones, and their gadgets.

I was thinking - what happened to old fashioned talking ???  

Is face to face conversation a losing art among the young people, and maybe the not so young, with the prevalence of modern communication gadgets? 

Ironically, the modern communication tools were created in the first place to bridge the distance and time when personal face to face communication is not possible.   The phones,internet and other tools are secondary communication devices.    No matter how convenient it is, nothing  can still replace the personal touch and response that comes with having a face to face conversation.  Issues and misunderstandings are resolved and worked out during face to face encounters.   Emails, texts do not.

So, let's chat.    

~ We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ~ Epictetus





Photo credit:   Nikos Zacharoulis

http://www.nikzach.gr/p/20