After-Shocks Poem by Seema Aarella

After-Shocks

Rating: 2.7


A bookmark of memory
Guides me again and again
To the same chapter, that reads
Not more than a single word

I churn in the whirlpool of tears,
Tossing from crests to troughs
Of the rampant memory wave
Caught in circles of pointless ripples

Adversity strikes, time relapses
Taking me back to that single moment
Where thoughts trivial and vital both
Were frozen into an eternal landmark

Driven to the cusp of bliss and tragedy
An involuntary thought reaches out to
The instant when we both had met
And departed in a momentary ‘Handshake'.

Saturday, July 4, 2009
Topic(s) of this poem: poem
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kesav Easwaran 13 July 2009

nice write...how casually and effortlessly you narrate this 'after shocks'...the shocks seem all absorbed...eloquent work Seema..thanks...10

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Sulaiman Mohd Yusof 05 July 2009

I can feel the tremor Seema.Its a 10 on the richter scale.

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rago rago 04 July 2009

a good handshake..... departed with pain........ your depiction is fine.....

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Rakesh Bedi 04 July 2009

......Driven to the cusp of bliss and tragedy.... excellent lines, Seema!

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