I have fallen a long way
I feel like moss on the seabed
Glow of stars dissolves
Up in the air
Leaving me in throes
Of loneliness
The sun is not warm enough
To melt your frozen heart
Slow is my walk
Faltering my step
A great distance lies
Between us
The burnt wax is cold now
A shapeless mass
Of dead love
The flying bird I envy
From caged thoughts
I'm dying to be free
Love imprisons my soul
I find no window
To gaze out
At the green grass.
Nosheen Irfan © 2016
The burnt wax is cold now A shapeless mass Of dead love- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -That image was perfect perfect perfect, I've been there and I know exactly the burned out emotion lying behind these three lines. Nosheen, your mastery over imagery shakes me to the core. Leaving me in throes Of loneliness- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - the loneliness is the cold-eyed killer, waiting for the day's business to be done so it can start carving away at your soul I find no window To gaze out At the green grass That will heal my bruises- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -there doesn't seem to be anything that can succor a person in the throes of no longer being loved. Powerful. Unflinching. Truth. A master piece of writing, Nosheen. 10+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Your poem gives many images that emphasize the condition of fallen but at the very end you say: THE GREEN GRASS WILL HEAL MY SOUL. If you can contact the natural world, but your poem also lists many barriers. The weight of all of these things depresses your spirit. It is a crisis that poetry may resolve, not this poem which states the problem but other poems perhaps will use poetic imagination to break out of this paralysis. I'm going to read yourthers poems from Nov.28 - N O W
Hi Nosheen, A very emotional poem, expressing extreme loneliness. How lost love pushes one to the extremity. A shapeless mass Of dead love.... That is what is left of love, when it fails.. Between us The burnt wax is cold now- Somehow, these lines relate to the beautiful painting you have posted above. From caged thoughts I'm dying to be free- This is what happens in love, even when failed: Love imprisons my soul.100+
A heartfelt poem with great poetic expression - - -To quote from the poem- - Slow is my walk Faltering my step A great distance lies Between us The burnt wax is cold now A shapeless mass Of dead love
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
My bruises! Leaving me in throes! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.