The Wings

The black night spreads darkness
like a bat in search of prey.

Mirages dancing like celestial ballerinas
lure the moths for raptures.

Some mindsets get trapped in the mazes
in echoed resonance of wistful feels.
I am afraid too.

Can there be oasis?
Where are those shadowed paintings?

I search in my mental camera.
Melodious feels and jingle chimes
entwine as moonlit auras.

Dreamy beauties rhyme in natural billows.
The seed sound reverberates.

The monstrous demon
tries to grab me and I feel like hiding.

The foggy haze becomes misty
and clarity steps in.

Slowly but steadily new dawn emerges
and in the love lap of Mother
I wake up with cheer.

@copyright@Manoj Krishna Sanyal

Comments: 8

Cheryl W. Jan 19, 2007, 11:47pm EST

This is beautiful, Manoj

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John F Walter Jan 20, 2007, 12:06am EST

Your images of batlike night and "monstrous demons" that threaten sanity and remind me of Goya's Black Paintings are keenly contrasted and dispelled in the speaker's overcoming of his fears about the mazes that trap and mirages that disapoint, to find shimmering images of harmonic relationship to cosmos and finally clarity. Great shift from threatening to restablilizing metaphors to show how having all the available resources of understanding and mindfulness gets one out of confusion, manoj. An impressive insight into self-awareness and reassurance.

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John Doyle Jan 20, 2007, 12:15am EST

well done. If I may be so bold, I think you swim in my world.

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vijay kumar Jan 20, 2007, 7:54am EST

Wonderful poem on the mind traveling through the night of trapping mazes, raptures and fears and emerging in a new dawn of hope and cheerfulness. The uncertainty defeated and the light emerging. Amazing work.

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Barbra L. Jan 20, 2007, 10:00am EST

manoj: A masterpiece!

"celestial ballerinas" . . . Loooooooooooooooove this!

"mental camera" . . . brilliant!

A 10+ and more, my dear friend.

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manoj sanyal Jan 21, 2007, 10:39pm EST

Thanks Cheryl.
John, Thank you for appreciation.You are very right in your analysis.
John, very happy that I can swim with you.
Vijay, thanks for your appreciation.
Barbra, I am overwhelmed.

Thank you all once again.

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