Tuesday 21 May 2013

This isn't the one







That’s a different poem that hums in my head
but this the one now I’ve got to write
don’t start that again, that dispossessed
wannabe swansong full stream midflight
that gets nowhere popsickles iced dead
between mighty maybes limp oversights
stick to now, stick to what’s got to be said
see to the other if everything’s alright
when the final dream’s cut, spliced and shed
like a reptile tail, pulsed, convulsed tight
in circles, looping the loops on itself
the animal tucked away out of sight.
Who gives a damn what can or can’t be helped
what plays out gently against the lobes of nights
the drumbeats in blood, the restless fevered bed
the sudden sobs in thin veins of light?
that’s a different poem, different its mesh
of rhymes and words cut free from black and white.




7 comments:

  1. beautiful peace of work .. yet again Nila !! wonder read !

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  2. boom. nice aggressive thumping rhythm to this one...there is power in it...oy i dont want to be between mighty maybes....just saying....

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  3. That is a powerful cut, Nilanjana. You manage to pack so much between the lines that I am left breathless. Powerful imagery - spliced and shed like a reptile tail, the lobes of nights.... Amazing, how you speak so much about the different poem you say you don't want to speak about.

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