suntannedapples: July 2024

NEONS

The morning mist clears, the beginning of a day

brighter now behind the hills,

the neon lights are out,

the last vestige of the night,

in a single sweep they wash out

the night's illusions of grandeur.

In a city the nights are brutally bright;

their illuminations darken the heart.

And yet I choose them by the night,

a compulsion , a need.

The yellow lights on the walls, the reading lamp, then the night bulb enduring the dark,

the night , my night of the heart's solitude

is scared of the overwhelming floods of lights

washing away the cordiality, the gentle intimacy

of the unlit ways where street lights shine

few and far between

Sushama Karnik

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Ships laden with sky and sea

The sailors embark on voyage,

Their hearts tremulous with confidence and trust.

An albatross of the faraway blue

Lands on the deck and rests awhile.

May God's eye oversee

The voyagers' ways.

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Françoise Dhulesia

What a beautiful and intimate poem, Sushama!

I have read it as a symphony in words, as a jugalbandi between yourself the poetess and soulmates Paul Eluard and Charles Baudelaire. …

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Françoise Dhulesia Thanks Francoise. For your kind words. They made me humble, especially while reading your references to Eluard and Baudelaire. Iam nowhere near them.

Imust say however, that I liked your perception of the albatross as a metaphorica…

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Sushama Karnik Am so glad you are writing again, Sushama and sharing. I must confess I had missed you and your work a lot.

For me, I do not see this poem as an attempt but as being in the perfect continuity of what I had read before, in its fluidity,…

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Françoise Dhulesia

I have reactified a typo, please read: the sea is also a theme dear to them.

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Sushama Karnik

Rebeca Barcenas Thank you so much!

for this beautiful and apt picture of the sky and the sea , and moon and the boat

Françoise Dhulesia

What a beautiful and intimate poem, Sushama!

I have read it as a symphony in words, as a jugalbandi between yourself the poetess and soulmates Paul Eluard and Charles Baudelaire.

The three artists and sculptors of words that you three are celebrate Poetry and your journey through Life.

The surrealist touches that are intrinsically Eluard’s poetry and that I had very often underlined in your work become one here: I like the visual impact present in your poem, reminding me of the love Eluard had for plastic arts, in particular painting and photography; the sea is also a theme dear to them. I feel you have added some Baudelairian accents in the evocation of the albatross, referring here to the symbolical significance of the bird as a metaphorical image of the poet’s moral and spiritual grandeur. God and Poetry as enlightening the world and guiding us through our voyages and journeys: thank you for sharing, Sushama!

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Françoise Dhulesia Thanks Francoise. For your kind words. They made me humble, especially while reading your references to Eluard and Baudelaire. Iam nowhere near them.

Imust say however, that I liked your perception of the albatross as a metaphorical image of moral and spiritual grandeur. I attempted writing after a pretty long gap. And I am glad that you elevated my effort to a certain height with your perception of the imagery.

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Sushama Karnik Am so glad you are writing again, Sushama and sharing. I must confess I had missed you and your work a lot.

For me, I do not see this poem as an attempt but as being in the perfect continuity of what I had read before, in its fluidity, plasticity...

As far as Baudelaire is concerned, his poem "L'albatros" interestingly lead me to yours. My idea of mentioning the poem was spontaneous.

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I have reactified a typo, please read: the sea is also a theme dear to them.

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Rebeca Barcenas Thank you so much!

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