memento-mori

memento-mori

A Poem by Siddhartha
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Flashing images at the end of time...

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Smoke
Ash of memories
Miasma of emotions
Fractured snapping reminiscences
Shape-shifting history

Smoke
Facts transmogrified mirages
Time muddled brain
Shifting dreamy hallucinations
Smog blackened faces

Smoke
Blinding leathery ether
Wispy fleeting voids
Nebulous shifty truths
Guilt induced torpor

Smoke
Raspy coughing voices
Frosted window glasses
Kohl rimmed tears
Shaken arduous breaths

Smoke
Alcohol induced stupor
Crisscrossing confusing detours
Slowly unravelling past
Hurt heart's ardor

© 2011 Siddhartha


Author's Note

Siddhartha
me·men·to mo·ri   [muh-men-toh mawr-ahy, mohr-ahy, mawr-ee, mohr-ee; for 1 also Lat. me-men-toh moh-ree]
–noun, plural memento mori for 2.
1.
(italics) Latin. remember that you must die.
2.
an object, as a skull, serving as a reminder of death or mortality.

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The end of time for one or all, catastrophe or not, wonderfully conveyed. Brilliant and evocative use of the word smoke reminds me of my travels in Nepal and India where I saw bodies cremated along the Ganges river. All in all, this is superbly atmospheric.

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intense. thanks for sharing.

Posted 13 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

you have an excellent way with despcription, I am finding. another imaginative poem.

Posted 13 Years Ago


A fascinating theme to start off, difficult, intriguing, provoking enough thought what it could be..end of time, a concept as alluring and bewildering as it gets..
The first two stanzas focus a lot on the physical consequence as and near death, the later ones more on the other side, for me..The title is great, you've picked quite a title. haven't you?

Posted 13 Years Ago


The end of time for one or all, catastrophe or not, wonderfully conveyed. Brilliant and evocative use of the word smoke reminds me of my travels in Nepal and India where I saw bodies cremated along the Ganges river. All in all, this is superbly atmospheric.

Posted 13 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

i think i just read a dictionary.

cool

Posted 13 Years Ago


0 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Well done! A tragic tale but moving nonetheless. Thanks.
Light,
Siddartha


Posted 13 Years Ago


oh... this is something... ! you have to feel this one... hard to explain.. with so much smoke around... somewhere something just creeps up here and there... or may be everywhere... and this write.. leaps across boundaries... comparisons and metaphors.. transcend this to another level.. great write...

Posted 13 Years Ago


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awesome! loved how you symbolized smoke as a reminder to mortality. more so in Hinduism. good read. thanks for sharing.

Posted 13 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Superb use of the smoke screen Sid and wisdom far beyond your years.I sense a great poet throbbing at the threshhold of the literary world , aiming to cause a sensational breakthrough! Five distinctly different viewpoints converging in a prism of smoke and emerging out as crystal clear voice at Life's end point. Masterful language and you have surely enhanced my meagre vocab. Thanks for sharing.

Posted 13 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

interestingly wtitten piece, we all see or reflect upon memories and it is at the end when all is but a whisper within the wind that we sense the very emotions of life...for all is but a simplistic moment of time...

Posted 13 Years Ago


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Siddhartha

Hyderabad, South Asia, India



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