Music resounds all around me.
The piano notes resonate
A sitar plays its seven strings, as does a guitar too
Thirteen strings harmonise
To a perfect rhythmic whole
The drums beat along with the tambourine.
The concert in my mind uplifts.
I sit, with eyes closed,
Listening to the music within,
Dancing in my mind,
The silence all around envelopes me with joy.
Or on certain days
Flute notes resonate through the air
Shaking the tender leaves on the boughs
A painter paints
Splashes colour across the sky
Far away a lone voice sings
A tuneless melodic tune
Wafts in through the waters
From a sailing fishing boat
Unseen hands light a kerosene lamp.
It is time to sail out into the night.
I sit at the river bank
Watching another sun set,
A flickering lamp sail by
A silence all around envelopes me with peace.
I had once heard a thundering silence
Boom and blast my ears
Cacophonic notes of distortion
Played within me
I pressed my hands to my ears
Tried in vain
To shut out an unheard noise
Rip me apart.
Alone and lonely
I had turned deaf
An ear-spitting silence had smothered me from all around.
But no more.
I have regained my eyes.
They are my ears now.
I hear music in silence
With my listening all-absorbing eyes.
beautiful !!
Soothing melodies stir in silence. It is the silence makes all resonance melodious.
It is axiomatic that in poetry,there are some emotions which are harder to convey than others.;Sadness and Longing particularly so. It is therefore a triumph of this author’s poetic metier that , ” Melodies of Silence ” engages the readers’ sensibilities with such purpose and resolve.
Destiny Poets’ International Community of Poets ( ICOP ) are pleased to announce that for June 2014 , the following works have been chosen in the categories of Poem of the Month and Highly Commended . Poem of the Month :- ** Golden – Witty Fay – **…..In the category of Highly Commended ( tabulated alphabetically ) are the following works:- * Def Lambs – Jacob Ellinger – *….* Dispel – Rashmi Malapur – *….* Flames of Desire – Ramesh Rai – *….* Let me count the ways – Lata Tewari – *….* Line of Death – Tapeshwar Prasad – *….* Lotus Life – Neetu Wali – *….* Melodies of Silence – Madhumita Ghosh – *….* Sickle of Change – Panjami Anand – *….* So,I lied – Jan Christian Sorensen – *….* We – Maria Lenn Langendoen – *….* (The) Word’s Color Change – Kinga Fabo – *….* Written in the Stars – Elizabeth Castillo – *. The ICOP CRITIC,Bi-Monthly Award ,for May / June goes to Gopal Lahiri .