Passing TimesRipped apart – a bundle
Of old books in a stack-
My journal long lost
Found in a ramshackle
Two lines in page 108: my
First love expressed in words.
A memory makes a revisit
Is it a memory or just a thought?
“Just for the twinkle in your eyes
And a twist of your lips” – Was it
Me who wrote that, or was it you?
Were we ever bothered of that?
Years later, I find them again…
And in as much vain I see
My lips twist in sheer grief
My eyes reject a shine…
I hold on to my world
Within and without,
Oh Lord, save me!
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Nice one, Devika. I like it.
Hi Raji,
thank you for coming and am glad to have that comment from you, Raji..
thanks again
wishes,
devika
A wonderful poem.
“Just for the twinkle in your eyes
And a twist of your lips”
I liked that line.
Take care, devika.
It is a nice one! and the words go so well with the picture.
Alas...I've spent too many years in pursuit of that "twinkle in the eyes, and that twist of the lips"--but it comes to no good end, I fear--at least not for me.
Hope you hang on tightly to your world, there is so much there of value! (and it will surely hold on to you as well)
Hi Venus,
Thank you Venus for coming and the comment..
I am glad that you liked it. To me those two lines are all about love and life :)
wishes,
devika
Hi Nick!
Many thanks Nick for coming and the kind comment..
am glad that you like it :)
wishes,
devika
Hi Firebird,
My dear thank you for coming and the comment...
I wrote a long response, the system failed...now i don;t remember what all i wrote :)
the crux is when we look for a smile in other's lips and a shine in his/her eyes we should not be expecting any good of it :)
and holding on to my world -- i do, but who knows the world and future has in store..thanking God for each day past..
thank you my bird...
wishes,
devika
beautifully expressed...
Thank you Magiceye..for coming and the comment :)
am glad that you liked it..
wishes,
devika
It is very beautiful and captivating and the photo, brilliant...way to go Dev ;)
Hi Lorraine..
Thank you for coming and the comment...
i am happy that you liked it..
btw, "this way to go" part --
you mean to say way to go to reach the Lord's feet, i suppose...
Oh yeah...one wouldn't know...But with that policy of love if i reached 40 years..i believe i could go very easily for another 40years :)
BUT, horoscopically i'm to die in my 68th year...i don't believe much about it..but rest of the life mostly turned out to be true :))
And, yeah if we one were to live among wild beasts one could killed in no time...and No horoscope predicts killings :)))
thank you Lorainne..you know how i talk...so i take this comment doesn't bother you....and as you said, only when we talk are we close, no??
wishes,
devika
If you would bear one,
The best of crosses to bear
Is the cross of love.
Hi Borut..
thank you for coming and the comment...
The cross of love is not so much of a cross for me...
may be because, after a 'certain' point..i don't care about it :))
wishes,
devika
Wonderful! to me it seems this person in the poem is still grieving over a lost love.
Hi Cynthia!
Thank you for reading and the comment..
You may read it the way you please...A poem is usually seen by a reader from his/her own perspective. So no issues here. :)
But, if it's me whom you are trying to read here...in the world i hold on to -- I got a husband who loves me more than i need...and is kind enough to accomodate my idiosyncracies...no worries.
But yeah, i think i get your point...the ever-pervading craving for love --
I think love, especially romantic love, is a syrup that increases appepitite for it each time you have it...i normally like keeping off from it, from a real life perspetive. it makes my life much easier...
AND my age as I see it..has crossed those limits when one simply 'falls' for love...i have had enough fallings and failings and now to me life has more purpose to serve in this world....
Hope you have no issues with that :)
wishes,
devika
I hold on to my world
Within and without,
Seizing my share...
Oh Lord, save me!
I loved this part very much......
Hi Deepak..
that's the part which makes the poem full, i suppose...
thank you for reading and letting me know :)
am glad that there was something in it you liked..ito me it was a crap just written in five minutes or so...never gave a second thought..as I live my life perhaps :)
so the final is about holding on to the Lord :)
wishes,
devika
**Just for the twinkle in your eyes
And a twist of your lips**
very romantic...
nice title too... lost in memories eh devika?? :)
vinay.
ps: i saw the post 3 mins after it was posted, but it said members only..!! :) glad i could comment now!! :)
Hi Leo,
Ver romantic?? -- it was first written or read in my late teens...so it has to be :))
btw, i wrote it again in my journal in my late twenties -- and in Page 108 -- know the signifiance?? figure out dear...if you do not get that, come again -- i'll clarify :)
and now, i'm 'trying' to relive that...in the virtual world -- one and all of you -- workable??
If not i don't care a damn! :-)
Title --"Passing Times"- it has two three meaning if you didn't get that well, let me tell you --
1. this blog is a pass-time business for me...
2. It is about the times that's passing by
3. It about the changes I have been through over the times that is past me...
glad you liked it..btw, I don't get lost in memories that much --NO time for that :))
yeah...the comment feature was disabled because i was not in a mood to receive or reply them..i had enabled it the next evening :)
thank you Leo for coming. and the comment...
wishes,
devika
Your words go very well with the picture..which I just love pictures like this..your a good write Devika.
Blessings,
Rhi
Hi Rhi,
Thank you for reading and the kind comment...
I am glad that you liked my writing :)
see you there, soon
wishes
devika
Really Dev...I'm scheduled to die either at 63 or 83... neither one worries lol
Beautiful poetry.. thanks for sharing dear:))
Take care
Hi Lorraine...
You lol for no reason?? i couldn't find any thing so funny about it...or did I miss something there!?
anyways, to me I feel am ready for the next moment, if only the Gods have me so fast:)
thanks Lorraine, anyway for stopping by for that chat..
wishes,
devika
Hi Sam!
Thank you for comig dear...am glad you liked it...
btw, blogging is done with the intent of sharing..if only, others reach out. :)
you care to do that sometimes. thank you..
i am a bit busy tonight...will see you sometime tomorrow there..
wishes,
devika
I fear the best we can do is to hold on in uncertainty. I think it is the way of life. Excellent thought provoker.
Pat,
True, for sure...
its ony about a moment just being past that we can be certain of..and if the next moment is uncertain, that certainty loses meaning too...
Holding on to uncertainty, with Lord at the core..that's me..for others too it should be that way only...
I was trying to figure out the comment Pat..Please do not see that me explaining your comment to you :))
thanks again for reading this too..
wishes,
devika
Good one;)
Hi Priya!
Thank you for coming..
Good to know that you found it good..
BUT, i didn't get what the wink was about...you found it funny!??
it was not so, to me..
Priya, i understand you write poetry, and that too pretty well...
Be sensible, if you cannot be sensitive to other's writing...and their feelings..
anyway, nice meeting the different mindsets!!
devika
When one goes down memory lane, especially to find an old write, or something of the past, there is that wincing sometimes of the times past...
I know I feel that way sometimes :)
For me, that is what this poem speaks of, and beautifully too! For times and feelings re-visited this is fine tribute.
A lovely poem, by all standards!
Hi Usha,
Thank you for reading...
i do not know what your standards of poetry are...
I am not very clear with my own standards...to me many poets seems fine..sometime feel none like Kalidas...
but then, as one explores you find so many..by now, i have learnt to appreciate the good in all :)
wishes,
devika
with respect to this post, more than the poem you wrote, what interested me to read is your replies to all those who commented. You really like to clarify others how they see you. I remember in one of reply to comment you mentioned you like to clarify and thats how you are wired something like that. I can witness in this comments page.
A certain kind of woman who is scared to get judged. - just my veiew. By the way i am not judging you nor reading you , i try my best only to enjoy the poem with out getting personally attracted to the author as authors of this certain kind are mysterious and enigmatic you see. ;) new year wishes. I wanted to read your whole page and complete till the latest post but i am not able to read your page in a flippant mood. needed concentration and your wordings and flow are bit difficult to for me to grasp in first attempt. You are too good. Sound english language. new year greeting to you and your family. Let you capitulate the year to add more meaning and puprose to yourself and understand the certain kind of woman in you.
3rd eye is my photo blog - I also like to clarify here - if it caused a curiosity ?
Hi KS!
I am so sorry, KS...was not visiting my visitors but visiting my old regular ones...and missed to reach you..
i am not scared to be judged....But i'm against -- damn against judging others -- by one's perspective..
that doesn't mean i don't do that..i do read others BUT always keep it for the other to prove what he/she is...
thats why you see meing clarifying the other side of things to people...one who cannot/pretend not to see....should be shown.
thats a 'God'ly act we human beings could do..but normally self-indulgence/arrogance etc...makes one not to care to do that...
btw, that i'm mysterious was 'unknown' to me...i feel i'm crystal clear :)
take your time dear...
infact i feel very irresponsible to not to have visited despite you reading me so patiently....
tonight, i will see you :)
All my Best Wishes for a Joyous and Prosperous New Year...dear known one :)
devika
hey its okay if you dont visit. Infact I dont write great as well as my blog is more of a journal where i keep a record . Instead of writting in papers i keep a record of my writing in blog. When mary recommends me something, I know she would only if she is convienced i will like it. I am glad i did read you. Now i will be off from your page for few days as you dont write every day. I will visit once a fortnight and can pick up where i left reading the certain kind of woman. I did notice you have other blogs. Now will venture into them for while as usual from the bottom. Loves to get to the bottom of every emotions to understand it better.
Hi KS,
Thank you for your interest in reading me here and other blogs..with the intent of 'understanding' better...
to be frank with you -- i love reading journals/work book of writers..than their final works...
the way they work through their words...phrases, rearranging..:)
anyway, if I have to be there..I'll be :)
devika
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