Wish you were here.
Wish you were here last night, in the moon’s glow.
Only the wind was howling so harshly
Outside my window, letting the sand billow blindly.
Wish you were here last night, in the moon’s glow.
Only the wind was howling so harshly
Outside my window, letting the sand billow blindly.
Wish you were here last night, in the moon’s glow.
Wish we could cradle each other, in our arms.
Your bosom my pillow, my chest your sun’s hillow,
Create an island, safe from the world’s low.
Wish we could cradle each other, in our arms.
Your bosom my pillow, my chest your sun’s hillow,
Create an island, safe from the world’s low.
Wish we could cradle each other, in our arms.
To gather strength to stand firm in the quotidian
Till our stars shine as one in the heights of the meridian.
Till our stars shine as one in the heights of the meridian.
Roaming together or staying, still, in love
Over the years, even when we are apart
Over the years, even when we are apart
Speaking or not, in our lives to see move
Ever, the power of love that won’t depart.
Diving into the blue -- Paul Wadsworth
The Roseate Sonnet was created by Dr. A.V. Koshy in 2012 as a South Indian variation on the Italian or English sonnet. Here is his explanation:
ReplyDelete"The rules are as follows: the sonnet must have two quatrains first, followed by a couplet that acts as a turn of thought and then by a last clinching quatrain that starts the first line with an R, the second with an O, the third with an S and the fourth with an E to form an acrostic that reads ‘ROSE.’ The form has no other constraints like rhyme or metre or blank verse having to be used, unlike its earlier forms or variants but poets are free to rhyme, use metre or syllable or metronome as a count and also to make the whole poem an acrostic if they want. There is no fixed syllabic count for the lines. It was inspired by a profile picture of a rose on a poet-friend of Koshy's called Gopali C Ghosh’s Facebook, again revealing its post-modern media-driven antecedents, and parallels such new experiments in form as the ones by Mutiu Olawuyi (9/11 poetry) and Bina Biswas's five liners. It also is a brief nod in the direction of Sonnet Mondal‘s experimental caudate sonnet, in its choice of name.
"The Rose was chosen as an inspiration because of its enduring nature as a symbol in literature worldwide. Its presence in the sonnet can be seen as a random conjunction in keeping with post-modernism that both gives it order and brings in an element of chaos, whether love, beauty, religiosity, spirituality, divinity, mysticism, sexuality or sensuality be the subject matter of the sonnet itself."
The Hillow is a helmet pillow, designed to let people sleep comfortably anywhere, even on a long trip.
reena:
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
Ampat Varghese Koshy:
Thanks Duane never saw this thanks a lot!
Santosh:
such a beautifully tender sonnet.