The Red Diary! Poem by Shahzia Batool

The Red Diary!

Rating: 4.5


Past is ebbing back to me
Hopes
Hurts
Heart-breaks
Deep wounds of virgin soul
solace
Angst
Poems written in faded blue
Wise quotes
Old pics
Cafe bills
crumpled napkins
love imprisoned- stapled leaves
a world wide
petals dried
My clumsy drawer lock & key
silence
scribed
Pain
described
Foot-notes in high-lighted pink
washed out faded turquoise ink! ! !

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
'Frozen only in time, breathing otherwise! ... ' Rehan

In sequel to the beautiful poem DIARY by Besa Dede!
COMMENTS OF THE POEM

silence scribed Pain described Rehan is humbled to see precis of his life....touched Syeda

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David Wood 07 May 2013

Oh the secrets of our diaries, if only my diary was so full! I just put birthdays in mine.

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Aftab Alam Khursheed 05 May 2013

just made an image place at the centre, surrounded by haunting ghost (he past) laughing, crying, beating pseudo madness.....enjoyable...ebbing back to faded turquoise.....nice

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Valsa George 07 May 2013

We confide and breathe out our secrets, longings, intimate thoughts and heart aches into a diary and keep it in a secret chamber, which is taken out from time to time for ambling into the corridors of the past! It is exclusively our own private property as long as we are alive, but later abducted and subjected to indepth perusal to read between the lines! An enjoyable read!

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Wahab Abdul 09 May 2013

this is your very different in style and taste, very profound and sweet too....nice to do experiment, .. love it..

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Tirupathi Chandrupatla 10 September 2013

This poem was at the back of my mind when I wrote a poem on My Diary today. I took look at the poem again and wondered how I missed to add my comment. Notes in faded blue and comments highlighted in pink. Result is turquoise blue. Beautiful rendering. Thank you.

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Farah Ilyas 25 May 2013

Nice poem......your diary in actual seems to be combination of your life, mixture of happiness, sorrow, pain, gladness, crying, beating etc, your red diary seems to be multihued of life....nostalgic journey.

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Ken E Hall 13 May 2013

The truth frozen in time clever to put memories in this way, very nice to read...regards

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Allemagne Roßmann 12 May 2013

Nobody can confiscate the past.None tried therefore.Past lives in Painsky Oblast where turqoise skies soaked in crumpled napkins have their deep wounds as a blast.Past is scot-free therefore.

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Dave Walker 12 May 2013

A fantastic poem, a great write.

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