A Headlong Plunge Poem by Valsa George

A Headlong Plunge

Rating: 5.0


Swaddled in frozen silence
In a weather so dolorous and damp
The pores of her mind sweat painful memories
Which take a headlong flight
Faster than the beams of light

At times shaking their fearful manes
As unbridled steeds, they come
Raising dust behind
Making all sanity blurred.
Often they rise from their indulgent stupor
And spill over, submerging all extant thoughts

They never care to stand in queue
Jostling each other with no manners
They bump on one another, breaking all decorum
Like an unruly mob on impatient wait

Caught in the vortex of a whirling current
Her poor body begins to lose its equilibrium
And she plunges into an abysmal pit
To be choked there in whirling gloom!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Tirupathi Chandrupatla 09 December 2013

Memories and thoughts may be uncontrollable at times. This state is described comparing with uncomfortable weather, unruly steeds, whirl of a vortex in beautiful lines. Nice poem.

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Hazel Durham 09 December 2013

Depression takes it's own course with uncontrollable thoughts, that bring us on a painful journey without our permission, we duck and dive but allow it to overtake us as we accept it's powerful control. Superb write!

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Dinesan Madathil 09 December 2013

It is a pity that she has has fallen headlong into the abysmal pits. But the hope has it that she will bounce back to the surging waves to reach the shores..

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Shahzia Batool 09 December 2013

The verse story told in the present indefinite giving it a dramatic touch! ! !

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Nasarudheen Parameswaran 10 December 2013

The course of the gloom well said

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Indira Renganathan 27 February 2019

A dolorous mood and the painful memories....the heavy perplexity of the mind is sometimes likely to result in delirious as well as dangerous act...no wonder " she plunges into an abysmal pit To be choked there in whirling gloom! " ....A well thought out work Valsa...10++++

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A sad reminiscence brought her headlong to the gloom once experienced.......Valsa.......metaphor so finely adopted makes the piece vibrant and lively...........

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Akhtar Jawad 10 June 2014

If someone is asleep or not completely awaken the memories become an in-disciplined crowd. Some times these memories are mixed in the sub-conscious grinder and a very abnormal shake is prepared. Some times it is furious and sometimes it is funny.

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Chris G. Vaillancourt 08 May 2014

An amazing, just amazing piece of writing

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Rubab Atwal 21 December 2013

beautiful poem....loved it.

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