A Day For Myself Comments

I will ask the sky to lend its vastness and ask the ocean to give its depth for my poems.

This day I will collect the pollen from flowers colors from butterfly wings to adorn my face and beautify my being......loved these lines. Beautiful poem. Thanks for sharing.

Explicit write Bharati. I'll ask clouds To lend it's black... awesome metaphorical expression The sky to lend it's vastness.. magnificent And rain to make me pure....just brilliant. Whole poem feels expectant and lively.

Great, Sublime Art. Great imagery. Nature here not only a beauty but a guide, and anchor of poet's purest thoughts. Poet wants to purge herself by the sublime shower of rain, the knowledge. Symbolic. Lyric, beautiful melodious And Sublime. While reading this lovely poem Wordsworth appeared to me. " My life sails Pass by, the days, months and years Who keeps their records? " - poets heart!

Lest I forget, I would like to add it to 'MyPoemList. Excellent use of metaphor lends a traditional touch to this phenomenal poetic feat. It has been a pleasure to read and relish this aesthetic exercise towards perfection. Thanks, Bharathi ji.

This day will be my day May it be my last night or the last day...very fine poem

I will ask the sky to lend its vastness and ask the ocean to give its depth for my poems....so sweet

The present. That is important. For every new day is 'this day'. Nice write

Thank you Poet Poet, Susan Williams and Bichitra Anand for your lovely comments on this poem.I must take this opportunity to say that I have published a Poetry collection basing on its name.A Day For Myself' Poet Denis Mair has kindly written its preface.It is available at amazon.in.

I will ask the sky to lend its vastness and ask the ocean to give its depth for my poems. 10 plus points+++++++++++++++++

I have read this poem before and I can testify that it has lost none of its freshness or charm. This day / I will be only me / With not an iota of / apprehension or pretension / and my heart be blessed with heavenly illumination.- - - That is the pinnacle of self-growth and one which would change the course of history if only we all would strive for this.10++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

This day I will collect.....my being......the whole and the sole theme heart burnt.10.

i read it again and liked it again! ;) bri

I; m glad you translated this poem for us - it reminds me of many Asian poems in which a solitary woman both mourns her life but also uses her creativity to make it better. And creativity abounds here! I love stanzas 5 - 8 in which you summon the beauties of nature to beautify you. There is a bond between you and nature that connects you to its goodness and wholeness. But you express this in the most wonderful poetic language, that is, images and not generalities. This poem celebrates a day you devote to your needs, your emotional well being, but it's also a day you display your mastery of poetic language. This poem is close to your heart for both reasons! (I just read Denis Mair's comment: he says the same things in his own articulate, perceptive way! !)

This poem has transitions which are pleasing to me as a reader: first you are busy with worldly commitments, longing for a day when you can break out of your routine. Then you think of the personal uses you could make of such a day, so you imagine adorning yourself with the beauties of nature. You set your imagination free, like a beast of burden at last running loose in a pasture, yet your imaginings are still tied to habits of daily grooming. Then you think of matters of the heart, and how you would best compose your thoughts and feelings, to treat yourself and others well. Then you think of how you would prepare yourself to meet your end. It all flows together nicely and seems to have a deeper meaning- -perhaps the stages of self-determination. So it seems fitting and not at all morbid that you wish this day to be your last, because after all we strive life-long for the kind of self-determination you describe.

hey, bharati! the title of this poem got my attention. and i felt moved by it in an inarticulate way even while i thought a woman would much better understand it, better understand the demands made by men in a world controlled by men... but i do understand the need for quiet, time for myself- which is not selfish, which is part of the biblical tradition of sabbath. -glen

Wonderful imaginary and imagery. Fathomless depiction of life has been canvased though it is a translation from odiya.It would be better to juxtapose the original. Thanks for sharing.

Wonderful poem... Depths of the ocean for poems and rain for washing us for Purity :) very well written Bharati ji :)

A poem of extreme beauty indeed! How I wish I could read and enjoy your native original. (10)

My treasure! Thanks for sharing.