Om Namah Shivaya

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Nov 23, 2011

WHISPERS : Sighs


Some of my HAIKU on suffering and then a long verse about life “Sighs...?” I believe that sometimes we cherish pain and selfishly hold on to it till it becomes intrinsic part of our soul... Love has that effect in leaving... in emptying...

A lonely tree in a village near Varanasi

Suffering is you
Left to die alone, in the desert spaces
Of memories - in past
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Suffering is not
The actuality of pain
It’s just an image of memories
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From seeds of suffering
That universal feeling of love
Flowers forth
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Common Man by Cartoonist R K Laxman at Worli Sea Face Mumbai - India

SIGHS
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As emptiness seeped
Into my being
A sweet selfishness of living
Flowered
And it took roots
Dig deeper into my soul

A red earth tempered by
- Dark blood of dying memories
- Fallen leaves of decaying past
One by one, withered branches
Of love crashed
On this emptiness of now

Trees, wind and the sky
All immersed in me
Pain flows; rivered in earth of living
Sounds of silence reach out from the last kiss
Echoes of your name
Sighs of dying breath


If you want to flower love
Then you need to sow
Seeds of pain
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Shashi @ Nov 2011
नमः शिवाय
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31 comments:

  1. its a great poem

    and what you wrote about pain & love in the first para -so true

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  2. the premise of this as well as the haiku...that i n pain love is found...very true...and felt...pain brings us closer, it is easy for us to relate to...and to flower often the seed must be broken...

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  3. "Suffering is not
    The actuality of pain
    It’s just an image of memories"

    So true, Shashi

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  4. "From seeds of suffering
    That universal feeling of love
    Flowers forth"

    This one particularly resonated my friend - for it, and all of these, honestly, are filled with such painful, but important truth. We suffer, in life, that we might also know bliss. Without the struggle, there would be no value...

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  5. These words are so profound.
    The seeds that take root in emptiness and dig deep into the very earth of our beings....Yet from these seeds love may bloom...
    Very, very beautiful!
    (suzy@somewhere a melody)

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  6. I love these words....As emptiness seeped
    Into my being
    A sweet selfishness of living
    Flowered
    And it took roots
    Dig deeper into my solitude.
    Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  7. Wow lots of great lines, so true that many hold on to it and never releasing pain either.

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  8. The pain of suffering here is emotional and mental anguish... and this takes years and work to cope and accept it.

    The seeds of pain - great imagery here.

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  9. a treat.... albeit pain, a treat the lines :-)

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  10. thank you for sharing your words Shashi - the lessons of pain are unavoidable in life - what we choose to do with them - our choice.

    You have chosen to make beautiful imagery!

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  11. such sadness in those first haiku, but the 3rd just blooms so profoundly... and "Sighs" has such beautiful, melancholy truths to it.

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  12. Nice to come upon these poems this morning. Lovely picture to begin your post.

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  13. A sweet sadness and heartache to both the Haiku and longer poem, expressed by someone who seems to know first-hand. Time doesn't always heal completely, but makes the pain less sharp and easier to bear. Well written.

    (Shashi, I usually think of Haiku as traditionally 17 syllables. Your pieces are each a bit different-22,22, and 18. Curious, is this a different style from the traditional and is there a name for this Haiku format?)

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  14. ugh..sowing seeds of pain..guess sometimes we have to...fine write shashi...also enjoyed your haikus.. as always..

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  15. It's important to remember the cycle of suffering and then renewal, change, progress. Sad, somber, but also understanding lines here.
    Gene

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  16. It is true, we cannot escape suffering, and to love fully, means loss at times...it also allows us to grow and in turn love more. Beautiful series.

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  17. Shashi, really enjoyed the haikus, and the Sighs was very neat way of conveyance, definitely makes you think thanks

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  18. Thought-provoking poem and haiku, Sashi. It's always a joy to read your work, even if it's about pain.

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  19. PAIN! I think of a girl kept prisoner in the woods
    who had to chop off her arm to free herself. How do we say it? "No pain, no gain?"

    Every birth first suffers that exquisite pain, even the acorn, when it struggles to 'flower' into lovely praise, that great oak.

    BOY! You DO get me to think. Enjoy reading your stuff...and it IS completely painless!
    PEACE!

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  20. So beautiful. You're talent is awesome.

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  21. This poem is amazing! It left me breathless! Lola

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  22. I like how you mix time together with space in the "emptiness of now", and the use of "river" as a verb a little later on. There's a gentle expansiveness to your vision, against which the red/fallen/crash stanza stands strongly.

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  23. I wish we could know love without the pain part. Accepting that impossibility is difficult for me at times. I enjoy your thought here Thank you.

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  24. Beautiful! I like your haiku's very much.The poem of pain compares itself with nature ..nice

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  25. aesthetically very pleasing, once again, my friend

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  26. I love your deeper meaning into suffering. I wrote a poem about a form of suffering and strangely thought of you

    your beauty in words deepens with time my friend

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