Strewn Poem by Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

Strewn

Rating: 5.0


Life
is the vast nothingness,
with failures thorny lifeless
strewn about far and wide
Successes few and belied.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
" Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! ", Shelley in "Ode To The West Wind."
COMMENTS OF THE POEM

Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote in Ode to the West Wind, " Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! "…

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Richard Wlodarski 16 May 2022

Poet Menon, let the success of your poetry wash away your blood. And lift you to heights unknown.

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It is always a matter of immense pleasure to read your words. Thank You.

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Your poem is mind blowing. May you be lifted from the bed of thorns, my friend......10

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Geeta, I am so grateful…. Lol….

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Dear Poet, this is a very sad poem. I certainly would not like you to be strewn far and wide. Life has its failures but it has its joys too.

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True, Geeta. I have to believe in what you say.

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I had posted a reply to LeeAnn here. But it has disappeared. PoemHunter oh! ! !

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LeeAnn Azzopardi 11 May 2022

wonderfully ingenius

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It is so kind of you to bestow your precious time on the poem and favour me with your note. Thank You

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Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

PUTHENCHIRA, KERALA, INDIA
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