1 ) Silence, so-called sweet spring of joy
Turns often,
alas! A bitter cup of pain
When Beauty slights and mocks with disdain
The fawning
heart with youthful pride;
Silence erects an
insurmountable chasm wide.
2) Silence kills a lonely,
languishing heart
More
grievous than a poisoned dart ;
Unseen, eating into vitals, inch
by inch
Cut off for ever from one’s own dear mate
Withering to roots, an unimaginable state.
3) Hearts blocked by stubborn
barriers of doubts
Reel under parched feelings of drought
Silence
creeps in with Satanic fang
Evil
thoughts crowd upon, a gang
To bombard Love and cast a
Promethean suffering spell.
4) A cutting edge Silence
suddenly reveals
When one’s
own dear depart for realms
Unknown,
unseen, unheard, too far to feel
For earthly
senses to perceive
Irreparable
loss for us, in vain to grieve.
5) The widening gap of time, of course
Silences one
when youth boasts of their glorious prime ;
An alien
uprooted from one’s own space and time
Rhymes not well with changing modern trends
To
Time’s unconquerable will, old age bends.
6) Silence looms large in dreadful nights
When one
bemoans one’s sinful fate
None to
console, a dismal sullen state
Sleepless hours like dire furies seem
Like
whipping devils, past acts roar within and scream.
7) Misunderstandings
with one’s own friends dear
Erect a hellish
growing hurdle steep
What loud
eloquence dares to convince and clear
The pall of
doubt and perverse mistrust?
Silence smolders one's bosom slowly to dust.
8) Silence, a tricky
language of mysterious fate
Our
questions stay unanswered with an uncertain swing
Man’s keen intellect can’t unfold every
mysterious thing;
Unseen forces play around --- beyond his grip;
His
rocketing frolic, a mere sophisticated slip.
9) Silence shadows even golden empires
Leaving their glories ruined entire ;
Wrecked and mangled by timeless fate
Mute witnesses, those memorials great
No use of
egoistic talk can conquer silent state.
10) Silence of godly heights immense
Seems not
to relent upon our woes
Society shaken by violent throes
Of destructive
vandalistic acts;
Silence
reigns grim –a final concluding fact.
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Note: 1) The ode is a
Greek poetic form with a complicated rhyme scheme and complex structure written
in a lofty style. In regular ode the stanzas have equal number of lines with a
fixed rhyme pattern. In an irregular ode, the stanzas have unequal number of
lines and the rhyme pattern is also irregular. In this ode I have followed
equal number of lines but with variation in rhyme scheme like abbcc,aabbc,and abacc .
The last line is longer in length having 11 or 12 syllables.
2) Silence is the language of gods; silence is
the language of a spiritual seeker; silence leads us to explore our inner self.
But silence on worldly level also has many shades of meaning and feeling.The silence of a rejected lover, the silence of a deserted
person from one’s own people, the silence of a jealous, scheming person filled
with doubts, the silence of a guilty sinner, the silence of a person deceived
by his untrustworthy friends, the silence of a person whose near and dear left
this world, the silence of a person with uncertain future,the silence of an old man who is out of tune with modern trends and the silence that
rules after the glorious kingdoms have disappeared from this earth etc. I have
described some of these aspects in my poem. The whole creation has emerged from
silence and ultimately dissolves in silence. Even the holy sound “OM” has
evolved from silence.In brief silence is more eloquent and more mysterious than
most incomprehensible discourses.
Ref : Promethean Suffering = A demi-god who stole fire from
Mt. Olympus and gave it to men for the benefit of mankind. He was chained to a
mountain cliff and made to suffer for many, many years as he rebelled against
Zeus, the Lord of all Greek Gods.
Furies =
Three female spirits with snaky hair who punish doers of heinous crimes.
Satanic fang
= refers to the deceitful act of Satan who tempted Eve in the guise of a
serpent.
A sophisticated
slip = Mistakes done by physicists who explore galaxies.Even their rockets cannot
reach the numberless galaxies of this ever expanding universe and their knowledge is not infallible.
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25th March, 2017 Somaseshu Gutala
