To Name A Mood Poem by Ananta Madhavan

To Name A Mood



To name something I seek also to name
Feelings which well up from some deep
In despite of habit and the numb
Drill of living. What shall I call this
Discriminate joy of standing still
In hails of history, whose residue
Is water and then vapour? Or between
Actions a space, a calm parenthesis
With no continuous congruence
Or purchase to the unwavering I?
Should I rejoice or grieve, that all my life
Is filtered through a sieve too wide of mesh
To catch in words? I have known enough
To recognise a 'raga' or a face
From hidden memories of coherence:
That curve of melody, those stranger eyes foreknown.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Written in 1980, while on home leave from abroad.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Edward Kofi Louis 17 July 2017

That curve of melody! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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