The impalpable experience Etched on the wrinkled body Of the crooked log Reminds me of the end, inevitable Of everything that exists The beauty, the song, the colour, and the light. Like small paper boats That start the journey, but never to return Like the log, lying still Never to wake up and feel.
Associating the inevitable outcome for the tree limb to the outcome for everything that exists is a profound statement on the nature of all aspects of temporal existence, as well as a keen observation about the relationship between the physical realm and the spiritual nature of all life. We exist temporally as beings with brains and bodies with a limited duration, while simultaneously possessing a limitless and eternal aspect as spiritual beings.
As living beings, we recognize “the beauty, the song, the color, and the light,” as being manifestations of a much greater spiritual existence, which, unlike their temporal expressions, has no beginning and no end.
What a lovely and concise expression you’ve given these ideas!
Thanks a lot, Rekha 🙂 the admiration is absolutely mutual. I still remember a post of yours, I liked it very much the way you made it… your first experience of going abroad, alone… 🙂
Never to wake up and feel. That sounds so painful & sad.
Sadly, today, Alan Rickman (Severus Snape) passed away and this poem is apt for the situation.
Hehe… what has shaadi to do with duniya dekhna 😛 😛
Well, with each day I can feel the growing older part.
Btw, I went to FB after a long time. You are rocking there… aren’t you 😛 😛
I was listening to one of the songs in Tamil from a Tam movie(remade in Hindi obviously, as usual), which was not in the movie. Shreya Ghoshal…. Just leaving you a link here, though I’m not sure if you will enjoy the song.
All of us proceed a bit towards mortality with each passing day. But, why not enjoy life to the fullest while we are alive? One day we will die, all of us, but for the other days, we are alive… 🙂
I loved the wonderful rendition! Thanks for the link… 🙂 Actually, was away for the weekend and hence, the late reply…
Penetrating depiction of the log. But it won’t end here. It will mix in the sand and will re-create itself. It ends in one form but begins in another. That is how life is. Reminded me of T. S . Eliot’s poetry.
So sad, haunting and un-Maniparna like, but, beautiful nonetheless. Loved the analogies of log, with scars of time on its bark and paper boats, which do launch with huge fanfare, unaware of their un-seaworthiness.
Blame it on the picture, the log was lying on the beach, life was throbbing with vivacity at a stone’s throw. And, it was there…lying so unceremoniously…once a part of life, now just a dry, dead log! The idea originated …found it so metaphorical with the life of human beings… 🙂
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End is inevitable because no beginning is possible without end. In Hindu beliefs, it’s said that our ancestors born as our children.
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Yes, perhaps the concept has come from passing the DNAs and genes … 🙂
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If we don’t make way for new how will beauty complete its circle and be reborn? A meditative poem.
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True that, still, we dread the end. Even when we know it is just a passing phase as acknowledged by the Bhagavad Gita… 🙂
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Associating the inevitable outcome for the tree limb to the outcome for everything that exists is a profound statement on the nature of all aspects of temporal existence, as well as a keen observation about the relationship between the physical realm and the spiritual nature of all life. We exist temporally as beings with brains and bodies with a limited duration, while simultaneously possessing a limitless and eternal aspect as spiritual beings.
As living beings, we recognize “the beauty, the song, the color, and the light,” as being manifestations of a much greater spiritual existence, which, unlike their temporal expressions, has no beginning and no end.
What a lovely and concise expression you’ve given these ideas!
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Thank you so much for presenting the idea so wonderfully! As if you had just read my mind! What can a say..it’s a “wowsie” comment…thanks again.. 🙂
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sad and brilliant Maniparna, to think the tree it was once!
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Indeed…thank you… 🙂
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end is inevitable… yet there waits countless victories… very nice wriite ❤
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Thanks, my friend. I missed you a lot. Hope everything is great at your end… 🙂
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I am well my friend… thank you so much!! 🙂
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Glad to know that… 🙂
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This is so beautiful. I wish I could weave a magic like this with words like you do Maniparna. Simply awesome. !:-)
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Thanks a lot, Rekha 🙂 the admiration is absolutely mutual. I still remember a post of yours, I liked it very much the way you made it… your first experience of going abroad, alone… 🙂
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Never to wake up and feel. That sounds so painful & sad.
Sadly, today, Alan Rickman (Severus Snape) passed away and this poem is apt for the situation.
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Yes, ..though he had other feathers in his cap, but he shall be remembered as Snape, forever…. 😦 A great loss, indeed…
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Now this is my kind of poem 😛
End is nearing 😀 😛
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😮 That’s not a fair thing to say, Anoop… grrrrrrr
On a lighter note, abhi duniya kahan dekha hai tumne? shaadi bhi nahi huyi abhitak… 😀 😛
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Hehe… what has shaadi to do with duniya dekhna 😛 😛
Well, with each day I can feel the growing older part.
Btw, I went to FB after a long time. You are rocking there… aren’t you 😛 😛
I was listening to one of the songs in Tamil from a Tam movie(remade in Hindi obviously, as usual), which was not in the movie. Shreya Ghoshal…. Just leaving you a link here, though I’m not sure if you will enjoy the song.
Good night!
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All of us proceed a bit towards mortality with each passing day. But, why not enjoy life to the fullest while we are alive? One day we will die, all of us, but for the other days, we are alive… 🙂
I loved the wonderful rendition! Thanks for the link… 🙂 Actually, was away for the weekend and hence, the late reply…
Chalo, Kabhi to Facebook pe aaye… 😀
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Penetrating depiction of the log. But it won’t end here. It will mix in the sand and will re-create itself. It ends in one form but begins in another. That is how life is. Reminded me of T. S . Eliot’s poetry.
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Right… everything remains here. The Law of conservation of mass… 🙂
I wanted to look at it as a metaphor of human life… 🙂
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Yes, I got that. I was hinting at the second part, continuation of this one….:)
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I got that… 😀
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It’s beautifully sad .. grim and soukful ek saath !
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Thanks, dear soul-sis… 🙂
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How ephemeraland yet your words so enduring! Rightly expressed.
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Thanks, Chaitaly..perhaps it’s the only eternal truth of life… 🙂
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Hmmm – mortality – its impossible to escape. Nicely written Maniparna 🙂
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Thanks, Andy…glad you liked it… 🙂
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It is good to be reminded of the inevitable that we often end up pushing to the back of our minds. A nice analogy of the dry log Maniparna.
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Yes, we don’t want to think of the end, the inevitable. But it stays there, always, at the back of our minds… 🙂
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True that.
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The one inevitable fact of life is the end. Loved the irony.
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Thanks, Maliny…yes, we just can’t avoid it. … 🙂
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Oh, why so sad!
So sad, haunting and un-Maniparna like, but, beautiful nonetheless. Loved the analogies of log, with scars of time on its bark and paper boats, which do launch with huge fanfare, unaware of their un-seaworthiness.
Haunting and beautiful as usual.
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Blame it on the picture, the log was lying on the beach, life was throbbing with vivacity at a stone’s throw. And, it was there…lying so unceremoniously…once a part of life, now just a dry, dead log! The idea originated …found it so metaphorical with the life of human beings… 🙂
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Aah! The reply in itself is a liquid poetry! Such a lucid and beautiful explanation! 🙂
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Wow amazing! I could not comment on the other one! I loved it too!
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Thanks, Lynn. Comment was disabled for the other one… 🙂 no issues…
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oh hmm I must have not clicked on it right dear! :0
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🙂 it’s absolutely okay, dear Lynn..
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🙂
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