ANARCHY
The once great nation portraying a guise,
Under the incessant rain of revolting lies.
"FOR YOUR GOOD" - They said, they watched every room,
They funneled the rise of a voyeuristic doom.
- The philanthropic intention -
- Of a fatalist federation -
The left hand - Chaos, the streets it ripped,
With a good hand they wielded a formidable grip.
Their words - They bore a modicum of truth.
Promising infinite freedom for the degenerate youth.
- For regional rile -
- And the cities it defiled -
"Within these walls, you shall find,
The desinence of all mankind".
With those last words, escaped, his breath,
The pragmatist died a bloody death.
- We drowned him in a sea -
- Of calamity -
Fight fire with fire. And brick. And stone.
Let them realise we are not alone.
March the walls with courage and strife,
We will rewrite the chapters of our right to life.
- The puppets we played -
- On threads, Frayed -
- Arvind Ramesh
(2nd Januray, 2008)
All written text is copyright of the writer/owner - © Arvind
5 comments:
It reads like the manifesto.
"Within these walls, you shall find,
The desinence of all mankind".
That just flowed so well with the previous lines.
I seem to enjoy your endings a lot so much so I wait to read them. I liked this one as well
"The puppets we played -
- On threads, Frayed - "
This in an economics class??? Must have been some lecture.
I think the ending represented Orwells book, for me, very well. A world of puppetry.
xx
ello! you are a brilliant writer!
the haiku, billy and this...just WAOW! :D
i like the haiku and the spider poems
the spider poem, altho sad, is written in a very 'fun' way
Arvind: Haha.. The spider poem was crazy.. Don't even know how I started writing that
Farah: lol
its brilliant
Arvind: thank you thank you kindly your majesty..
Farah: what is this one abt?
The plants are thirsty
The cat has to hunt for food
An old lady dies
Arvind: This one is about the death of an old woman.. The point o Haiku is that it should give you an epiphany when you read the third line.. When you read the first two, you hardly realise what I'm talking bout and the third one is supposed to just hit you in the face with logic.. :)
Farah: oh
hmm
Arvind: Meaning, it's midday, the plants have not been watered, the cat has not been fed.. Because the old lady is dead
:)
I shouldn't put a smile after the death of an old lady
Farah: lol
i likes little billy too
you do poems with a themerather well
Arvind: Lol.. I did a different kinbd of rhyming ring to it..
I can only do poems with a theme.. Abstract stuff does't come to me easily.. :(
Farah: most people don't
'get' abstract stuff
themed always gets understood
Arvind: That's the point.. That's why I make my 'theme' poems complicated sometimes..
Poetry is supposed to make people think.. If not, it's just a nursery rhyme or something
Farah: not always
Arvind: okay.. Most of the time
Farah: just because a poem is themed, that doesn't make it redundant...i mean, miles to go before i sleep, doffodils and many other famous poems are themed
not abstract
the abstractness in such themed poetry steps in hwere you need to delve into the theme and explain iit
Arvind: Not really.. Because when you leave the theme as it is, you make the reader think.. And when the reader reads it, durin every glance he'll find something new in the poem to appreciate.. The meaning of the poem will be revealed to the reader only after he analyses it.. And such a poem, even though themed, is abstract because it draws the reader into it's grasp and makes him analyse it
Farah: wendy
Arvind: Yes Farah
Farah: there's a beauty in your poems cause they have both depth and purpose, unlike abstract , where in depth is definitely there, but it's easy to loose focus
Arvind: I think it's the ability to lose focus that makes the poem abstract...
Farah: lol
yesh
Arvind: :)
Farah: but it makes a world of a difference to the focal point
Arvind: yesh...
:P
puppets still!
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