Showing posts with label Ponderings n Purpose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ponderings n Purpose. Show all posts

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Gerasa

In Gerasa of Antiquity, the crossroads of valleys imprinted with footprints of Alexander the Great. Broken pieces of cobblestone steps, in an oval plaza once held promises of prosperity. Yet, the most humble and arrogant of men know - that promises are often made to be broken. With every pillar in my view, once intricately carved with Hellenistic perfection each stands fractured now, distressing lines of frailty.

I can only wonder whose footsteps I trail, centuries after. And imagine the realm of Greek and Roman empires preceding me. Temples of Jupiter and Diana overlooking the remnants of a kingdom - a display of pride once lingered. What kind frailty would Jupiter feel, to once be the King of Gods, but he now no longer reigns? And what sorrow would Diana feel, to summon the moon over this sight of eternal silence, dusted and deserted dynasty?

And I, the solo wanderer unkempt with my imagination. Am left to believe that everything is but a dream, and everything has been created to be left and remain a dream. 

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

tongues

you can learn many different languages
be fluent in many tongues,
yet still lose words to describe what you are feeling.

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

not everything is meant to be understood, but curiosity can make us a little wiser sometimes.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Missing can only occur with a departure.
I used to believe that every breath inhaled becomes a tiny part of one's soul. And you will breathe until the soul is complete, and has reached a point of fulfillment.

My heart feels like it is drowning. I don't think I am strong enough for this. 
Most graceful and most compassionate.
To the most merciful of this universe.

Of the depth and deepness, with every weakness I feel within me. 
Between tangible silences.
Ever in denial.
To the Keeper of Secrets, forgive him. 
Grant his family ease, strength and comfort.

You are but all-knowing. 

Sunday, January 4, 2015

feet

if you try to make things stay, it will grow a pair of feet and walk away.
& then you will tell yourself profusely
that what you thought was forever
did not last so long, afterall

Saturday, August 9, 2014

For every word comes from somewhere,
from places you have visited
and depth of darkness within you.

Sunday, July 20, 2014

I am fractioned and frictioned by this arrangement. This feels like chasing for temporary highs. I used to love city lights, now I am afraid I might rupture.

Monday, May 19, 2014

The Mast

A harbour anchoring moments,
Winds whispering feelings
Mind reeling into reminiscing 
But like the rope hitting a yacht's mast,
Persistent-
And resisting in a desperate rhythm
Reminding not to linger with the restless wind.

A perched seagull squawked arrogantly,
It soared free to the horizon.

Here I sit seeking no sympathy
With stillness unlike the lake before me,
Let the gentle ferry horn reprimand,
And the wafting dock console me.

-written May 2014
"Big Tub" Tobermory Harbour

Thursday, January 23, 2014

we can choose
the things we wish to see
but can we choose to feel
the emotions we do not wish to feel?

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Pier

I just want to sit on a bench by a pier.
Staring at the harbour, with a coffee cup in my hand.
And maybe a notebook on my lap.

The stale air from these walls have suffocated my clarity
& I can sense creativity rustling,
blowing away like early autumn leaves

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

There's a story before, between, beneath & beyond everything seen. 
But we'll never know it all. 
Thus makes our judgments mere assumptions.

Graduation, in gradation.

When you stand on the summit of a mountain you'll start to realize
How infinitely small you are compared to the endless sky.

Monday, April 29, 2013

My writing space;

Though I sit on the bed, with four walls around me, I am not here. Physically, these walls have enveloped almost four years of sweetness and turbulence. Through these walls by busy Bronson Ave I've spilled words. Letters, after letters collect themselves into words...to phrases...and sentences. They form images of memory. Or an escapism-

A creation of my inner reality. From dissonances, calamity. To cacophony of ecstasies. In my proses and poetries. But I do not seek agreement nor do I vouch for sympathy. These lines are mine, as they have always been. To release into the airwaves, for no other purposes than simply to release. Like everything else in life, there is a need to let go.

When I write, I let go. Sometimes a part of me. Sometimes nothing, but empty alphabets. 

The inner I, sits by a dock. Lulled by a sea's breeze. Gazing into the distance, of a sun setting sky. There are no walls where she sits. Just vastness. But she knows, the time will come again. To face a different sky...

& maybe she doesn't know where she is going. Perhaps she may sail on a wafting yacht. Or find her feet in a foreign soil, hopelessly leaving her heart in places where nobody knows her name but she calls home. She has done so in the physical and inner moments of her life.

But she knows, wherever it be, she is on the right path & never alone. Even if destiny throws a detour worth traversing, they serve to direct and reassure. Not hinder. This she has learned, from the four years surrounded by four walls that accompany. 

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Faith and theories have one thing in common. They are like lenses that make you see things differently.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

The carrier

There is a maker of the knife who designs the instrument,
& the sculptor skilled at carving
But what molds the heart depends on neither,
For it is not the heartbreak that determines its shape.

But the will of its carrier.
Whose spirit to mend and strengthen
The musculature of his heart-
He gently seizes his organ to rest between his palms
Recognizing it as his own, his purpose and virtue

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

The enemy

Untangling a rope in darkness is more satisfying,
Such test refines the self,
In a manner much more than the presence of light can define.
Darkness is not always the enemy, sometimes light is.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Philosophy

Melancholy makes philosophers out of some of us,
& philosophy makes fools out of others
But society 'progresses' because of fools.
Only, progress is subjectively defined.

Friday, December 14, 2012

Wonder...

While we're too busy chasing what is ahead,
We forget to be in the moment,
Until we realize what has passed.

Saturday, December 8, 2012

The hardest subject to study is the divination of the heart.