Mar 10, 2019 Uncategorized
Dreamer in Ice
©March 10th, 2019
By Vijaya Sundaram
Under ice, deep under water
Gazed a face so still, so still that
Not a ripple on the surface
Creased the Dreamer’s face below.
No air bubbles, no struggling breath
No gurgling cries, no troubled eyes
No searching for aeons gone by
No yearning for all those who’d left
No wants, no needs, no flaunting deeds
No ghosts, no lives, no breaking rules
No pain, no hunger, loss, or gain
Could move the Dreamer’s watching face.
The eyes alone gazed up, and saw
The stars burn up, and suns explode,
Saw space grow large, grow larger still
Until it filled the dreamer’s eyes.
The ice cracked then, and broke apart,
The water flowed away, and down.
And back into the caves below,
The Dreamer dreamed herself away.
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Mar 10, 2019 Original Poetry
All the Birds, One Bird
©March 10th, 2019
By Vijaya Sundaram
All the birds rose up together
Out of the snow,
Frantic and fervent, they rushed upwards
In a white panic, snow flying all around.
Disturbed from dreams of
Who knew what?
Warmth, brooding warmth on beaches,
Perhaps, or becoming pelicans,
Or, better still, standing in a pink flock
On one leg, squawking up a storm
Stinking up a miasma in togetherness,
Or, perhaps, just becoming one with snow.
Who knows?
The birds arose as one bird,
Out of deep, deep snow on a field,
And I saw in their wings
My constant, constant yearning,
As I rose, within, with them, struggling
Against gravity, against everything
That could hold me down.
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Mar 10, 2019 Original Poetry
A Dream of Watches and Clocks
©March 10th, 2019
By Vijaya Sundaram
All the watches were glowing
All the clocks struck one together
No mice ran up them
A cat ran down one.
Blood on clock-face.
Mouse-tail hanging down,
Swinging back and forth,
Back and forth,
While Foucault’s Pendulum
Swung the earth
Round and round
Round and round.
A dream that never ended,
While the galaxy spiralled away
Into infinite nothingness.
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