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A blank post!

10 Jul

It takes a bucket full of adrenaline and a head full of randomness to sit down and type out a post when you would rather be sitting at Marine Drive,conjuring images of sea horses, dashing against the dome shaped rocks, scattered all around, in order to give an impression of randomness. However for the lack of like minded company, I sit down to write, with nothing particular in mind. For the past half hour, I have been wondering what to do. Whether to read the half a dozen books I purchased out of sheer curiosity and temptation and never got the time to read, or whether to plug in my earphones, lie down on my bed and daydream or rather night dream, if that can be a word at all!

Its 1.28 am and I can hear the distinct sound of raindrops crashing down on the rooftop with ceaseless vehemence. It’s been the same since evening. Water, in all forms, can either anger you or act as a soothing agent; a calming influence, which in all probability, makes you drown in the deluge of thoughts, of past occurrences, of memories- often buried and never shoveled out.

Am I religious? Perhaps not. Am I spiritual? Very much indeed. The how and why of it unearths itself in layers, bit by bit, inch by inch. I have a deep connect with a certain genre of things. I converse with characters in books; for me they are as real as the Supreme Power is. I converse with the choppy waters; in as engaging a manner in which I would perhaps meditate. This deep connect goes way beyond the idolation that one has for forms of stone or clay, without demeaning the respect attached to the same.

To plonk myself in front of an endless body of water is what I wish to do now. To dream and dream as infinitely as the stretch of the sea is how I imagine myself at this point in time. This piece of verse is dedicated to the morbid obsession I have with water, in any form.

β€œThe azure heaven stretches into oblivion
And merges into your being
As seamlessly and as ceaselessly it could
Empowering you with a vengeance of sorts
To swamp the outlines of a human mind
To delineate joys and sorrows alike

You have been blessed by the Almighty
With the power to induce hideous tears and to bring about a surge of joy
To make the human kind dream
To make them soar high into the sky
To make them crash as smithereens on to rough ground

I unburden my heart, full of woes and take shelter in your bosom
Accept me as a lover would
In the throes of unbridled, passionate love
Adopt me as a mother would
As your blood, as your bones

For you shall throttle my spirit
In jilt and desertion
For I shall have nowhere to go
Neither to cry, neither to laugh”

 
 

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19 responses to “A blank post!

  1. Mitostargazer

    July 10, 2011 at 3:51 am

    πŸ™‚ I am quite illiterate in poetic sense πŸ˜€ but i loved the prose.
    I too converse with water sometimes, when looking out from the window watching rains, and they splashing my face with drizzle due to a certain slant….

     
    • Shruti Parija

      July 10, 2011 at 1:47 pm

      Glad to find a like minded blogger!Thanks a ton πŸ™‚

       
  2. chirag

    July 11, 2011 at 7:44 am

    nice πŸ™‚

     
  3. Hima

    July 11, 2011 at 10:32 pm

    Good one !!!You have been blessed by the Almighty
    With the power to induce hideous tears and to bring about a surge of joy
    To make the human kind dream
    To make them soar high into the sky
    To make them crash as smithereens on to rough ground

    Best part of the whole thing!! Loved it.. πŸ™‚

     
    • Shruti Parija

      July 12, 2011 at 12:27 am

      Thanks a lot dearie πŸ™‚ Thats my fav part too!

      Sent from my Nokia phone

       
  4. nicky

    July 12, 2011 at 10:10 pm

    i luv d rains..thgh nt water in general..:P
    as of marine drive its sublime..evn wid all d waves crashing below u its gives me an overwhelming sense of calm n peace…simply awesum!!!
    P.S. i nevr get poetry so i refrain 4m sayn nethn..hehhe…
    so whn r v goin thr nxt???;)

     
  5. Piyush Kaushal

    July 13, 2011 at 4:59 pm

    Sublime conversation. I quite liked the flow of poetry

    best line:

    “Adopt me as a mother would
    As your blood, as your bones”

    Cheers!
    Indigenou

     
    • Shruti Parija

      July 14, 2011 at 7:41 pm

      Thanks πŸ™‚ You have a mighty good blog yourself!I especially liked your take on social issues.

       
      • Piyush Kaushal

        July 14, 2011 at 9:35 pm

        Thanks for the generous comment πŸ™‚ i am glad u liked my blog!

         
  6. Udit

    July 14, 2011 at 5:49 pm

    This is by far your best work of Prose. Keep it up young lady, long way to go. πŸ™‚

     
  7. Kunal Chandra

    July 17, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    Hi Shruti, just happened to chance upon your blog courtesy the tweet ocean….and I must say your volatile…wanton obsession with the waters is quite sublime indeed. The “morbidity” in your expression still eludes me….but I see your flow….I hear your spirit…..:)

     
    • Shruti Parija

      July 18, 2011 at 12:05 am

      Glad to note that the spirit was aptly communicated.As for the morbidity,I shall dedicate another post to it.Thanks for visiting my blog! πŸ™‚

       
  8. book readers lounge

    July 22, 2011 at 1:20 am

    not a blank post after all
    well written

     
  9. Vishy

    September 8, 2011 at 6:51 pm

    Wonderful…

     
  10. sarvani chowdhury

    August 21, 2012 at 2:29 pm

    i loved it…..I unburden my heart, full of woes and take shelter in your bosom
    Accept me as a lover would
    In the throes of unbridled, passionate love
    Adopt me as a mother would
    As your blood, as your bones

    For you shall throttle my spirit
    In jilt and desertion
    For I shall have nowhere to go
    Neither to cry, neither to laugh”…..
    …….
    these lines were so beauitiful!!!!!!

     

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