Wednesday, October 01, 2008

who are you, rain

who are you,
mockingbird

that you bare your throat
to the sky
shaking down lute notes
from your feathers

and who are you,
rain

that you draw the scorched taste
from my mouth
with your million fingers
circling my soul

and who are you, forest sparrows
that you cry out in harmony
with each other's song
from opposite stars

and wood thrush, that you open the night's eyes
with your whisper
of glass

and who are you, night
that you rake away the weight
of a tired world

and you, earth,

who are you
to bleed, in spite of yourself
a soft green haze
as you dream

10 Comments:

Blogger Devika Jyothi said...

and who are you
firebird

that you charm a downcast
with a glowing kind mind
and a verse that recognises
natures’ holdings made
to cheer!

it made me so light!!

thank you firebird..
see you and take care:-)

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 10:33:00 PM EDT  
Blogger Yes said...

Devika-- No-one can be downcast with a friend like you! I am glad this poem lifts your spirit...your comment lifts mine!

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 10:38:00 PM EDT  
Blogger Devika Jyothi said...

that was so kind of you firebird...

i am glad that I have been blessed to have friends like you..:-)

devika

'A Certain Kind of Woman' has a new one..would love to have your comments...

Friday, October 3, 2008 at 1:06:00 PM EDT  
Blogger Paul said...

To me, what starts as a response to a mockingbird ends up pointing to the depth of our overall responsiveness to nature. Reminds me of these lines from GM Hopkins:

...the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel,
Being shod. (He's just discussed the blighting influence human activities can have on nature...)

And for all this, nature is never spent,
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went, O morning at the brown brink eastwards springs -
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent world
Broods with warm breast and with Ah! - bright wings."

Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 6:06:00 PM EDT  
Blogger Devika Jyothi said...

Paul's comment was just so revealing...
I like to see these sparks when great minds meet..:-)
see you again..
devika

Monday, October 6, 2008 at 2:20:00 AM EDT  
Blogger gautami tripathy said...

Do we really know who they are? Do we know who we are?

Monday, October 6, 2008 at 8:59:00 AM EDT  
Blogger Yes said...

Paul--what a wonderful comment--I love those lines that you quoted--
they give me the same deep feeling...
(I was trying for William Blake, but GMH does it for me, too!)

Thanks for "getting" it!
(funny how Hopkins' poem ends with a bird image...)

Devika--"great minds", Hmm? You won't get any argument from me about that! You are so amusing...

Gautami--Some things we wonder about, but never know, we just feel...
I like your comment!

Monday, October 6, 2008 at 9:33:00 PM EDT  
Blogger Devika Jyothi said...

Hi Firebird!

You know me by now Firebird... That was not for an argument, I really felt so...

Wishes!
devika

PS: 'Socio-Political Onlooker' has a new one today. It may interest you, i feel..

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 10:44:00 AM EDT  
Blogger Yes said...

Devika--you know me by now, too--I was just teasing you!
Loved your new post but didn't have time to comment on it last night...

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 10:45:00 PM EDT  
Blogger Devika Jyothi said...

I know firebird, teasing bird?
lovingly,
devika

Monday, October 13, 2008 at 2:36:00 AM EDT  

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