Anisha Dutta Poet Rhyme

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02/27/24

No.1290

 

Contest by Brian Strand 

EMPTINESS

       EMPTINESS

                          Emptiness encircling and encompassing me ,
                          sinking in melancholy and despondency.
                                             Life is rolling through concluding phase,
                                            Dusty dusky gloomy hazy sky above to gaze,
                                            Dreary weary dull days to drag without glaze.              
                           Stagnant life neither in glamour nor in glee.

                         Mind is wandering completely meaningless.
                          Lone sailor on voyage, sailing just aimless.
                                       No expectation to attain or to achieve more.
                                       Action and creation almost rotten to the core.
                                       No yearnings left to venture or to explore.
                        Matters little whether being careful or even careless.

                        Life once started taking completely blank canvas.
                        Within humble holy heart put a flower vase.
                                       On Canvas of life  all happenstances to display.
                                      My performances drawn, painted, day by day.  
                                       Fresh flowers of activities in vase intact to stay,
                        Full bright in rapture or dry pale in sorrow : Oblivious.

                   Reaching my last stage got shocked to discover
                   the ruthless truth as an  utterly helpless observer :
                                       My drawings - paintings- sketches to delete .
                                       All  Memory -flowers to droop in life's twilight.
                                      Success - failure, love - gain, gone obsolete.
                   Blank canvas - empty vase to ridicule !  My time is over.

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Don Iannone March 11, 2024 at 9:14 PM Hello Anisha Dutta, "EMPTINESS" appears to probe existential emptiness and the transient nature of life. The poem's imagery of a blank canvas and an empty vase could symbolize many things. For one, the absence of meaning. Then again, what is meaning in the face of existential emptiness? What is a legacy in the face of impermanence? The poem poignantly captures the realization of the fleeting nature of existence. Of course, impermanence and emptiness are birds of a feather. Anisha Dutta March 12, 2024 at 5:37 AM Thanks a lot for your visit and so thoughtful elaborated comment. I feel honoured.. Have Good Days.

Bj Legros Kelley March 2, 2024 at 1:13 PM Anisha, this is so sad, I hope you are writing this from artistic license and not from personal reality. Sometimes life can seem frustrating to grow older along with the sadness of illness, or loneliness. In loneliness, sometime if we seek community through clubs, volunteering at a museum of art or history, maybe a church, etc. it can spark more joy. Is this for a contest? I hope you're well. Sorry I am not able to be on here often. May you be blessed with health, joy and peace Anisha <3