Thursday, April 23, 2009

Poetic Kindness

Even bad poems cannot be written at will
is the moral of the week.

Stare at the sky at dusk
as long as you want or
as long as it lasts,
eat away at the end of your pencil,
cross and uncross your legs forever,
But no.
The sky's blue-pink smudge does not care
to write itself down and stay forever
on a stupid blog;
it is meant not to last.
The sea might splash and dash and roar
on your page, but it does it all better
in real.
Even personal drama passes
like mint chew on the tongue.
It makes for tastelessly gooey verse.

Friends and family are usually kind
to familiar mediocrity blogging away.
But you must be kind too,
give them something,
a word, a phrase, a line, some wit
they can justify their kindness by.

4 comments:

Suthradhara said...

this is not a stupid blog,
you dont have anything to do with mediocrity
and..................
I am not being KIND.

Nirali Shah said...

thanks for what these words did to me.

Anonymous said...

I read a article under the same title some time ago, but this articles quality is much, much better. How you do this?

Anon said...

Awesome!! As an owner of a stupid blog who does not do anything such to justify any ounce of kindness bestowed upon her.. I was laughing right from the start...

yeah.. "Even bad poems cannot be written at will... "
:-)