Shadow-Dancing Poem by Wali Jamali

Shadow-Dancing

Rating: 5.0


A swinging female dancer
With divine gestures
Leavesmarks on the sand dunes.

She touched -
It felt like nothing.
She moved -
It tapped not.
She swung-
It produced no sound of whiff.

She was an opaque
So marvellous
So composed
So ryhtematic.
Divinity - her display
Silence - her clamour.

She,
A shadow of a bruised
Painfully crafting divisive lines
To earth the cracks so wide open.

An attentive spectator murmured
your are singing deity - a Nirtiki-
Dancing like standing daffodils
On the field front
Like a profound shadow of insubstantial pageant.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Sadiqullah Khan 01 December 2008

Fine poetry xobia, , , some thoughts and imagination put in a beautiful way, , , , keep writing, , a 10

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Aijaz Asif 05 December 2008

very beautiful and powerful imaginary write indeed... thanks 10+++

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Omar Ali Sabar 06 December 2008

xoubia, a remarkable write indeed. I like the way you have split the person in your poem by portraying the outward beauty and a whithering inner self... A Ten Spot..

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Dr Hitesh Sheth 09 December 2008

Beautiful write.......... You made words dance to your tune.

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Indira Babbellapati 17 December 2008

is earth the dancer here?

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Sebastine Humaemo 14 January 2009

picture runs in my mind while reading your lines.....a dance said by words...much creative and charmin....wonderful write.......mere daffodil....sebastine.....

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Sreelekha Premjit 14 January 2009

The picturisation of the dancer is enthralling.. I liked the line 'silence her clamour' a great deal... very beautiful..

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Sadiqullah Khan 05 January 2009

The theme of a dancing girl is always enthralling, , treated here with very finre words and stanzaic pattern, , , lovely read, ,10

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Surayya Abbas 01 January 2009

shadows keep on dancing in the poem. it reminds me old civilizations. Nicely penned.

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Chitra - 29 December 2008

fine verse, you made your beautiful words dance to the tunes of your exquisite pen

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