If I Can Turn Into A Poem Poem by Bharati Nayak
If I Can Turn Into A Poem
If I can turn into a Poem
I wish I could be your poem
The painted words of your art
The quietness of your poetry
And the softness of your words
I could be the fragrance
Drifting from your lines
I could be
The oceanic depth
Of philosophy
defining your poetry.
I could become
The soul of your quiet poem
That would ease
Each and every pain
I could be the
Decorated Chinese vessel
That would store
The beauty
Of your poetic wine.
I could be that poem of yours
That would need no words
And would become
The threshold to silence
I could be the zephyr wind
That would softly disperse
The sadness of things.
If I could be
The voice of your poetry
That would become everyone's voice
And it would
Become the beating
Of a common heart.
From a poem
I would turn into poetry
That would reside
As the light
Of common soul.
@Bharati Nayak /18-04-2020
(Written after Daniel Brick's poem The Quiet of Poetry)
"Beautiful poem. You borrowed some of my words, but this is very much your poem. I love the imagery you used so beautifully. In the second stanza you have a fragrance image and follow that with a grand image of "the oceanic
depths of philosophy."Those two images, the first intimate and small scale and then the BIG image of the ocean, show the range of poetry we both appreciate. And your transformation into a living poem in the next stanzas
is a marvelous moment. You become what you love - namely poetry itself. I recall the great Mexican poet Octavio Paz wrote that the goal of reading/writing poems is to turn humans into poems. In the later stanzas of your poem you go further than Paz and actually become that living poem. You have written an inspiring poem and show us why poetry plays such a pervasive role in our creative lives. And your poem preserves the "quiet of poetry" in my poem, so that our two poems celebrate quiet over boisterous and harsh language. It's as if a quiet voice stirs us to pursue our happiness by means of writng and reading poems"
-Daniel Brick
'The beating of a common heart'. Brilliant line. Shows how religiously you have gone into Daniel Brick's work
"I would turn into poetry" thank you for all the things you turn into poetry, including yourself!
hey, bharati! i'm spending a bit of time this early morning exploring, like a bee, the few poets and their flower fields i usually visit, you first on my mental list. i like this. like that a poem of daniel inspired it. this may not be the same thing, but i think of poems or other writing when something i've wanted to express was said so well. hoping you're doing well, glen
Hearty thanks Glen Kappy for this high appreciation of my poems. It is so rewarding to know that my poems come first in your choice of poems.
Words of your art! ! Works of your act, Works of peace and love; Poetry is the way of life. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
Thanks a lot Edward Kofi Louis for your wonderful and inspiring comment on my poems.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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This is gorgeous! This is gorgeous! This is gorgeous! I am repeating myself but dang, girl, this is so lovely and it sings! ! ! And it flows like a gentle river. My goodness, I wish I could write like this! ! ! This has to be chosen as Poem of the Day. Poem of the Year! ! ! 10++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ and onto my fav list
It is a real pleasure to read your comments and I am lucky to have them..Thank you dear Susan Williams for your highly valuable opinion of my poems.