I found few change that lay orphaned on the bookshelf. I took a hard look at them for a moment, a little more than necessary, thinking of the least interest I should have in them. But I picked them up anyways.
What world can I buy few pennies
Do I know thy worth few pennies?
What you can buy I can help you decide
Will you follow me undesired?
Few pennies tell me new
Images that lie beyond the dew
And geometric scheme that conspires
Will I bear infinitely supreme powers?
Why then is that undesired
Powers that bore upon your hand
Need not have me conspire.
What else can I buy few pennies
If not it's the power that I desire?
My dear friend, my dear friend
Can’t you think of anything but satire?
Will it be peace few pennies tell me
Will it be happiness that I should have undesired
Whose shadows participate in infinite spheres
And yet tell me that I can’t be a sire.
Why then is that undesired
How can I help you find a trodden heart
Whose virtues were considered bemired.
My irritation was now too evident. Pennies that I hardly thought can buy me a cup of coffee were making me question my own desires.
In this convoluting world can’t anew I desire?
You call it a change when left unfulfilled
Over half the tasks abandoned indeed?
Tell me few pennies, tell me last
What can I buy, if not then don’t surmise.
New dreams you dream my friend that I can’t desire
I will help you buy old dreams that left you undesired.
Appalled I stood looking at the three shillings who just bought me my dreams unfulfilled.
21 comments:
That was fantastic creative ther Alok. Nicely done with pennies.
wow profound!
Keshi.
I can’t know what u could buy with pennies, but it gave a wonderful poem for us. Nicely penned the post.
unbelievable. greatly original piece bro. loved reading this.
"pennies" almost musical as far as words go.
Lovely poem Alok :-D
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As someone else has said, this has a musical feel. I love it!
Priya: Thanks as always. I was running out of ideas as to what to write. Glad that u liked it
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Keshi: thanx mate
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Jeevan: Thanx buddy as always, What Penny can buy .. Difficult questions u ask my friend ... I didn't use Penny as a metaphor per se in this poem ... I used pennies more so figuratively than metaphorically .... You can call it more of a trope. Penny here stands for a whole as well as suggests incompletion in what can be apparently invisible to naked eyes but can surely be attained (perhaps by different means) .... Different ways to look at things ... money without which it seems impossible to live a decent life today and money which in all context possible has given rise to people frantically running after naught ...
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Siva: Thanx mate
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Miladysa: thanks for ur words :) But honestly can I ask you, did u feel something lacking in the post ... something that was did not sound correct or perhaps if I can use the word logical ..... Do lemme know if so ....
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Annonymous: I have no clue wht u wanted to say with those pics ... May be u didnt like the post .. may be u just wanted to use the four letters ... well good enough for u .. atleast could have done better by dropping ur name and not hide in shame ..... the fact that u didnt put up ur name shows wht u did was not in good taste .. but maybe it was good for u .. hope u enjoyed it ...
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Andrew: thanks a lot as always
Alok
nice piece there.
njoyed it :)
great thought process going on here
pennies = change
my mind goes in strange directions :)
you are on a roll alok
cheers
Alok
For me there was nothing lacking in the post or that came over as illogical - not to me anyway :-D
dd: Welcome and thanks
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Floots: U made my day. Ur mind goes in all the right directions:) thanks a lot
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Miladysa: Thanks
Alok
Hmmm....running out of ideas? I don't think so. It's so well woven. Love reading it. Thank you for sharing. Take care.
Alok
Looking deep I see. How wonderful. But then that is what you are. I enjoyed this very much.
soft love,
T
you capture every emotion exquisitely. In fact I'm running out of words while prasing you.. but I'll keep trying ..
go on Alok ..
a question beckons if everything we see and experience are born of the same dreams. Or maybe Not.
//New dreams you dream my friend that I can’t desire//
lovely words...you have crafted it beautifully...really so creative & thoughtful...Excellent writing!
Nice work Alok.
Shillings! It's a long time since I heard of them :-)
Worth about 15p in new money, I think...
Very Creative! I like the concept! Keep it up Alok!
Seema
I don't know how I missed this Alok -sorry :(
I love the deep introspection and the question and answer structure of this. It is amazing where our minds will take us if we allow it. Excellent thought-provoking piece my friend.
Venus: I am indeed running out of idea .. somehow I am not able to see things the way I should (I think)
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Tara: Oh! I am redeemed ... I always thought I am a nerd :) thanks a lot for such a wonderful comment ..
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Aria: Ah! coming tht from u always means so much ... thanks a ton
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Siva: I think there is one base dream in all of us ... new dreams are borne out of that same base ... sometimes they take a drastically different shape .. other times they do assume their own structure :) thanks
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Kalyan: Beautiful is ur comment ... thanks my friend :)
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Rob: Thanks ... no clue abt the new conversion ... had to rely on my shillings for the fiction :)
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Seemu: Welcome and thanks a lot
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Janice: Why sorry ... It is perfectly fine my friend .. thanks for such a lovely comment
Thanks guys
Alok
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