THE SONG OF THE SOUL OF THE PARTY - a poem by me

THE SONG OF THE SOUL OF THE PARTY

by Deepak Menon

The intensity of the blow which has

NOT FALLEN YET,

Has crushed me from within with

ITS IMPENDING THREAT,

Has ulcerated my mind, body, soul

Reduced my existence to despair

AN UNDYING DEATH.

**

For die I can not, nor

EVEN DESPAIR STILL,

Tho' bent within and knotted without

OF SHATTERED WILL,

I must forever crawl, however cringing, towards

the dawn of hope always hidden beyond

THE NEXT HILL.

**

But hope of what, I dare not even

CONTEMPLATE,

Each victory won, does, to

EQUAL LOSS RELATE,

To cherish hope is to shatter hopes

The face of doomed love is

CLOAKED WITH HATE,

**

So close I my mind in

AN IRON BOX,

So turn I my heart

INTO COARSE ROCK,

So paint I my face into

A WOODEN SMILE,

Stifling the pain with

LAUGHTER AND TALK.

Deepak Menon

Does the world need a universal language?

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HE WHO WOOS YOU LIKE NO MAN - a poem by Deepak Menon

Smoke swirled around your figure

Swaying like a misty wraith

Amongst the nameless crowd of souls

Dancing their Dance of Faith

Faith in the future they believed in

The future born in the dim past

When fought they battles, couldn't win

And were into destiny's cauldron cast

To flutter like trembling leaves in the wind

Frantically dancing the Dance they made

A Dance they made to make them forget

The games of love they once had played

When into their midst your timeless shape

Had burst in like a flash of light

Banishing the shadows, the smoke and dark

Scattering all fear into headlong flight

And you danced the Dance of Hope

While stars sparkled in your lovely eyes

And your body sang a Song of Hope

Stilling the multitudes hopeless cries

And they watched with riveted gaze

Your swirling limbs, your haunting face

Your radiant smile, your tossing hair

Your twinkling feet in frantic race

And they knew you danced for me

They watched and wondered frozen in time

While your eyes saw only me

Radiating your love - true, sublime

And they knew that they had seen

Eternity in your sparkling dance

A love so true, so pure - so strong

It left them speechless and askance

And from the mist there appeared

He who wooed you like no man

Took form and swept you far away

Into the Forever Sunshine land

   ----------------------By Deepak Menon

Sonnet No 6 by me

SONNET NO 6

.                      by

.      Deepak Menon
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The oceans be deep yet the Sea of Sorrow is deeper still

In which the lover from his love estranged, wallows
The mountains be high yet higher is the lonely tower still
From which the lover’s lonely gaze scans the hollows
Enervated by the calamity that knows no earthly parallel
Yet pervades the world of humanity in equal measure
The look or word that transforms heaven into fiery hell
Hurling into depths of sadness what once was pleasure
The sight of a vacuous smile upon the same upturned face
Now meaningless as it follows a vacant and empty look
The frantic nonchalance in the searching for just a trace
Of the raging storms that once his heart by force took
And in that fleeting moment, do stop the sands of time
Life losing its lustre, and the song of life – its rhyme.