Word count
Quite clear
Black white
Eight eight
Two hands
key play
Grand scale.
Staff, Clefs
Pitch, trills,
Sharp, flat
Tone up
Tone down
Hum, sing,
song bird.
Key board
Black, white,
No gray,
No shades
New heights,
Loud, soft,
Light, dark.
Love, life,
Birth, death,
Start, end,
Play on .
A rising editor is in search of a poet
Whose poems would bring him up
A tone up fate and stunning fortune
Here is a poet waits to come across an editor
Whose distribution and managing quality
Would help him to become an author of a bestselling book
And let fame and name come crawling
And make him a super star
In this duel of the ambitious two
So many ‘’genius’’ readers are robbed off
From having good poems in their shelves
And reading them in silence or recite them aloud
The word has several dimensions basically
That makes it vulnerable to many versions
The definition and perspective does change
That suits one’s convenience occasionally.
For some it is a technique of purification
Of the body and mind combination; stained
To purge the impurities that are gathered
And to attain and enjoy, something sublime.
Few others take it as an effective application
To trim and tone up their physical appearance
That helps them certainly in hiding their age
That abets to walk like a proud maiden around.
The affluent with their numerous worries
That bother them despite loads of medicine
On the advice of doctors and soothsayers
Pompously take to it as a great step-down.
The poor and the half-starved look at it
As a forever staring reality to be faced
And fervently hope for the blessed day
That will break the constancy of fasting.
Corruption! Corruption! Corruption!
Where is corruption?
Seems tone up statesmen notion
Co-ordinate with gallantry pride exploration,
Somewhere scholar's voice explosion
Solicit grant for idle generation.
Corruption! Corruption! Corruption!
What is corruption?
Working against the soul corruption,
Earning money overdose corruption;
Kissing beloved on road corruption.
Homosexuality in India corruption.
Corruption! Corruption! Corruption!
How to eliminate corruption?
Agitation, law, dialect and compulsion
Could not minimize absolute tension:
To eradicate this sensitive passion,
Must regulate spiritual diversion.
Tone down the intensity
Is like telling the sun
Not to reach its zenith
Of blazing, scorching heat
Or telling the waterfall
Just as it is ready to gush
Down in a tumult of
Freshness to hold back
At the edge
Or telling the volcano
Seconds away from erupting
Hot molten lava
To reingest the heat
And lie dormant
Or telling the tsunami
That is rushing headlong
To the shoreline
To recede back into
Nothingness and let go
Of its momentum of power
Or the shooting star
To not leave a sparkling trail
As the friction with air
Causes it to burn in brilliance
But to remain motionless
A pale light
On a dotted black sky
Tone down the intensity
For a person who embodies it
Is like telling nature to stand still
With bated breath
When all it wants to do
Is burst into a song of celebration.
Tone down the intensity?
Not a chance…
Tone UP the capacity
To live life!
Eileen Manassian Ghali