“Noted for future reference”
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 21:56Posted in category Poetry
I’m not an instant reactor
I’m a brooder, a ponderer
Some things deserve only instant expression
Like ripples breaking the surface and vanishing in minutes
They die out with the wind
But undercurrents
Stirring within
Churn and pound
Quietly, rhythmically, powerfully
And build up to release
A tsunami is just a gigantic ripple after all.
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Sudipta Chatterjee
says:
September 28th, 2006 at 11:52 am
And it is funny to note that sometimes the little pricks, the little ripples open the gates and become the tsunami
sundar
says:
September 28th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
beautiful last line…and one wonders on what distant shore the spreading ripple/impulse ends…
TLR
says:
September 29th, 2006 at 1:28 am
It’s the little waves that build up to the big ones and those are the ones that change the world.
auzzierocks
says:
September 29th, 2006 at 11:59 pm
ever let yourself be carried away by the tsunami…no resistance?
Gauravonomics
says:
October 1st, 2006 at 1:40 am
You are tagged!
ideasmith
says:
October 1st, 2006 at 1:45 pm
@ Auzzierocks: Yes, once. I think that must have been love. Or overpowering lust at least.
sensorcaine
says:
October 8th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
smithy: as pickwick would say: ‘bea-you-tee!’
Meant to be « The Idea-smithy says:
July 5th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
[...] and she cut that thought to shreds. But stored away the thought in her mind if she ever needed it. Noted for future reference. Neatly filed away as always. Now she pulls it out, finding a use for it and she knows it fits. [...]