In the Afternoon

Sometimes a new friend invites me to explore

his mind

In a room full of old newspapers and coffee cups

stained with time

Asymmetric forms glint in white light; colours clash and clang

On muffled speakers Billy shouts piano man

He smiles as if to say here

take my thought

Turn it in your mind

Add, subtract, divide and make it sublime

Catch my words, flip them around;

Resonate with your sweet harmony divine

I gaze at purple shades,

Tap my boots and sink into my chair

A silken discovery of a languorous afternoon

beyond care

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

Resonate with your
sweet harmony divine.
A nice write.

[Talal Hussain]

Great writing again...pleasure reading your stuff :-)

[Leslie Philibert]

The first poem I have read from a Anu, and a very good one - you have talent !

[Ed Fagan]

You writes are a treasure. I have yet to be let down by anything that I've read. I doubt I will. Cheers!

[Anu Biswas]

Thank you Ed. I think I am getting into the writers' block though. :( Have two ideas in my head but the words are just not coming out right. What do you recommend?

[Ed Fagan]

when that happens I just leave it alone. I take a break and and do something else completely removed from poetry. I we all need to recharge sometimes. whether or not this is the right answer only you can know. You're a good writer when it's ready to come out it will. best of luck. let me know how things go.

[DrD]

You have that magical gift of taking an afternoon and making its simplicity epic. I would frankly have preferred that the "harmony divine" not be there. I don't like adjectives at the end of things like in Italian or Spanish. I would have preferred "three quarter time" or something relative to music. But that's just me and I can never criticize your efforts because they scream from your soul and that's where poetry is supposed to be found. Great work, Anu.

[Anu Biswas]

Thank you for review DrD. Completely agree with you on the 'harmony divine' bit. It was a lazy line.

[highthought]

this is a new topic which u have open our eyes on it.u have the courage to talk about it , i wonder if u can tell us how do we read others mind , where do we start from and how do we move till we finish the job

[Dr. Wood ?]

quite a wonderful picture of words

[Eudaimoniac]

Again, very beautiful. So intrigued by your intrigues, or so to speak. I particularly like your invocation of a kind of mathematical language; 'assymetric forms' 'add, subtract, divide and make it sublime' and then placing them in parallel with such lines as 'resonate with your sweet harmony divine'. As always, I remain amazed.

[Anu Biswas]

I was surprised when those words popped into my head! But it felt right, coz that's how thoughts seem, yes? Thank you for visiting my page again.

[zainul]

Wonderful work