Tuesday 16 November 2021

At home

 


There are a thousand roads and each one takes me home,

a thousand rivers flowing and each one is you.

A thousand leaves falling and every one’s an autumn,

the same tune’s playing on a thousand screens of blue.

The roads are made of smoke, the rivers made of distance

and home’s just exposed bricks in an ancient ruin,

a thousand ways to measure, and all beyond fathoms

- beneath bricks and rivers old history’s brewing.

There’s a huge swarm of wings and each one’s a prayer

and every tree is a roof, every stone’s a shelter.

Each swoop is auspicious, every turn, every tier,

and each cloud overhead is shaped as the delta.

I’m home on each road, beneath every stone and tree

wherever the road winds, wherever the stones may be.




11 comments:

  1. Hi Nila - wonderful and so evocative of each of our pasts - all of life's past - everyone will be there wherever life takes us after life - we will be together ... excellent sonnet 'At Home' ... Hilary xo

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    1. That is a comforting thought - at home now and in the afterlife...thank you, Hilary.

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  2. That just flows like the thousand rivers in your veins. I bet someone could write a tune and that could be a song. Lovely

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    1. I do love rivers! :) and each one has its own song or it seems to me.

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  3. Hari Om
    Oh yes, I too could almost hear it sung!!! Lovely. YAM xx

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    1. The word sonnet does derive from 'little song' :) Glad you enjoyed it.

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  4. This is definitely a 'little song'. Would be beautiful sung. Love the words, the rhymes, the rhyming couplet at the end. So much depth in this, Nila. A wonderful ode to home.

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    1. Home is many things, varies for individuals and even for the same person it can become different over time. Glad you enjoyed the poetry, Denise. Thanks.

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  5. Beautiful Nilanjana. To keep me cosy during these cold months. Thank you.

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