Sleepless Poem by Seema Aarella
Sleepless
It hurt me with the pain of
Thousand bee stings, your
Plain thought soaked in the
Jasmine mist of my garden
On a deserted summer evening
Adding extra agony to my apathy
Alienated from myself I watched
On my unused shabby table
The tango of dust and light
Streaking through the window
One final time before the dark
Inviting the intolerable lonely hours
From the punishing comfort of
My house I walked out as if
Impatient feet themselves lead me
From beneath the boring roof
To the kiosk of full moon sky
That reminded me a bitter sickness pill
From the terrace of my suburban home
I searched the celestial vastness
Madly, for the thirteenth sign of zodiac
To kill the monotony of restlessness
That besets me often in your absence
On these sleep deprived unpleasant nights.
sleepless is a torture...you have brought it out very nicely
this poem remeinds me of Eliot's poem it has such a modern smell and the beauty of this poem lies in its iamgery which is captures during a journey of teh mind.
seema.............what a wonderful write...................very well done
sleeplessness and lonliness go hand in hand at times. Wonderfully written.
these moments of alienation can be so gruelling and intense that we end up meandering thr' labarynths even to find our own self!
That besets me often in your absence On these sleep deprived unpleasant nights! ..... close attachment and sudden isolation causes worry and sleeplessness...... very good descriptionof state of mind.. well done
yeah sometimes loneliness may cause sleeplessness.................but one must learn to live in solitude and face oneself then loneliness becomes comforting.........a good write.......
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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12/6/2025 8:42:40 PM # 1.0.0
another marvelous write Seema ji..... the time passed in loneliness is never ending time and your this master piece describes it very masterly, thanks for sharing many many many 10'sssssssss rgds asif