First Person Poem by Magic Box

First Person

Rating: 4.3


Scattering words
I pick them up one by one
Put it into my magic box
Pour a barrel of paint
The same of my soul's color
Sometimes black, sometime blue
May be red or something new
Shake well up and down
Take them out as small blocks
Put them out to dry
Build them into small lines
Two or three, inspired by a theme
They take some shape
Of a Hero (Villain) an imaginary game
What they are, you see
Is what really defines me
Where all these coming from?
Cogito ergo sum

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
I think (the quality, proximity, creativity and depth are irrelevent and i'm sure all readers can forgive me for the time you are wasting reading me considering my madness) therefore I exist
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi 18 August 2013

I would like to congratulate you for this poem being selected as the poem of the day..Keep it up and Good Luck to you Aswath Raman

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Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi 18 August 2013

thank you for the explanation which I knew that you had meant, but a barrel of 'paint' is something cloudy to me, as we are not in the ancient time and have evolved from being barbaric to modern and then to the technocrats. when many of our friends here have agreed upon your views, what is the big deal of me objecting the metaphor that you have used, so I still stick to the objection and I wish you good luck...

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Shahzia Batool 18 August 2013

Many many Congratulations on your recognition of this poem of the day...! ! !

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Aswath Raman 18 August 2013

Since you insist on me clarifying, Let me make it clear Ma'am. First of all I have used color, instead of colors, that makes it singular, hence the meaning implied that there is only one color. Here in this poem, what I have meant by color is emotion. I can only have one emotion at a time. Secondly, magic box is my mind, color is emotion and I think by shaking up and down well. In addition to that we know in ancient times, artists used to mix colors to get the desired ones. They were neither aware of the modern chemical reaction symbolisms nor had labs to work out. Wherever they needed of new colors they mixed it. I hope I have clarified Thanks for the comment again Magic Box

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Nikita Dutt 24 August 2013

a very nice poem. Its great to see that writing can be theme to write something new. You surely are blessed with some amazing words and you know how and where to place them.

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Neela Nath Das 17 August 2014

Imagination gets tinged with colors that are beyond the world of reality.Here you are successful M.B.Congrats!

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imagination and creativity at its finest and origins..

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Aftab Alam Khursheed 17 August 2014

Cogito ergo sum this is not madness..flow of music from the magic box lovely thanks

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Leslie Philibert 17 August 2014

Like the poem, don`t undersand the notes; quality is, of course, important for literature.

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Yash Shinde 16 April 2014

.............great going friend........and we love your madness, its a boon and surely not a bane................. ............lovely write

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