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Posted by Jai Narayan on September 11, 2004, at 9:28:27
I sit with fingers poised over keyboard
so new with blistering white keys
I caress the plastic pads with my sensitive healing hands
My thoughts telegraphing through my nerves
Will my meaning be understoodLife hangs in the balance of well placed words
I tread on thin ice as the earth icecaps meltI pour forth from my heart
will this reach with gentle whispers
a soft handNot the shrill song of conflict
All communication can tangle into this
in a movie or book it deepens the characters
reveals the plot
In life it hurts
in the struggle of body, mind and heart
we who engage come away with something changed
I send a prayer for healing.
I send love into the hidden places of hurt
the wound way too new
the skin barely formed
I touch the keys with a halting rhythmdo no harm
my deepest goal
I send out love
where harm may have found a home
I am deeply sorry
but I fear it will never be enoughJai Narayan
Posted by Atticus on September 11, 2004, at 17:20:59
In reply to Do no harm...... Jai's lament, posted by Jai Narayan on September 11, 2004, at 9:28:27
Words can be powerful things, for worse and for better. They need to be handled delicately, like hothouse orchids with nitroglycerine coursing through their green veins. Things of beauty, things of destruction. I do think regret and forgiveness are some of our noblest qualities. Life's too short to cling to pain. Odds are, you're already forgiven. Now you have to do the hardest part: forgive yourself. Atticus
Posted by Jai Narayan on September 11, 2004, at 18:53:46
In reply to Re: Do no harm...... Jai's lament » Jai Narayan, posted by Atticus on September 11, 2004, at 17:20:59
Posted by malthus on September 11, 2004, at 19:02:53
In reply to Do no harm...... Jai's lament, posted by Jai Narayan on September 11, 2004, at 9:28:27
Hi Jai:
This is your best poem that I have read.
..."All communication can tangle into this
in a movie or book it deepens the characters
reveals the plot
In life it hurts
in the struggle of body, mind and heart..."This line really grabbed my attention. With this whole cyber-communication invention it does seem like a script or a book (and even with movies one knows the characters are acting), because it take more effort to actually "see" someone's emotions. But it is real life because we are not writing fiction when we remark on each other's work or communicate about our past or present states of mind.
I was thinking today about a book I read once (can't remember the title) and it contained actual love letters written by prominent poets and novelists. I couldn't put that book down. Granted, the writers knew their lovers before they wrote the poems and prose, but their words have such power, such emotion, and surely affected deeply the recipients of the letters. Really fascinating. I almost felt guilty reading them as they were so intimate.
Please do not "touch the keys with a halting rythym". You have been part of what makes this site unique.
malthus
Posted by Jai Narayan on September 11, 2004, at 19:54:50
In reply to Re: Do no harm...... Jai's lament » Jai Narayan, posted by malthus on September 11, 2004, at 19:02:53
Thank you Maltus, I thought so too.
I love the idea of peeking into the lives of prominent poets and novelists. Love seems to be so universal but the expression of these universal loves is unique.
It's so good to hear from you.
thanks
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