shalom shah
I like the poem and its images overall; I'm not sure about Nirvana and
Oblivion standing in the same poem. They seem to contradict each other. I like the
simplicity of these lines:
Then the morning came,
and a sparrow chirped,
a squirrel swerved,
and a child clapped -
kol tuv, Ryfkah
In a message dated 08.14.03 5:20:22 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:
<< The Journey
The bridge there
stood on three pillars,
the fourth one, Nirvana,
was under repair.
An owl threw its shadow
across the rising moon;
hounds hauled at dusk
in the setting sun:
ah! the ill-fated soul,
the ill-fated soul.
The spell was cast -
mind worked without words.
Wheels moved one circle,
carried the soul one step
nearer the three-storeyed world.
Hell was bypassed, rightly so,
for that was the purpose
of the detour,
the crowd had little understood.
Then the morning came,
and a sparrow chirped,
a squirrel swerved,
and a child clapped -
as the carriage drove
across the oasis
into Oblivion.
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c s shah >>
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