Tuesday 6 September 2011

sleep

the sky enfolds the night to its breast
and sleeps exhausted.
the earth slumbers in dreamless silence.

anklets removed from the dancer's feet
curl on the floor....

*****

11 comments:

MTaI said...

"the sky enfolds the night to its breast
and sleeps exhausted.
the earth slumbers in dreamless silence."

As always Mr. V, you paint the most beautiful pictures with your words!

Love it!

P. Venugopal said...

thank you, MTaI!!!!

kochuthresiamma p .j said...

beautiful image!

P. Venugopal said...

thank you, madam!

vijay said...

beautiful!

Sumi Mathai said...

few words and beautiful imagery. that wud be ur forte :P

P.S. oh god it feels like ages since i read ur blog. sorry :|

P. Venugopal said...

me, your's too, Sumi. but it doesn't mean your being far away from my thoughts.
thanks,vijay!

~*. D E E P A .* ~ said...

:) :)
A man can live longer by starving than by not sleeping !

Sorcerer said...

poem done with surgical precision.
[Trying to be creative in my comments
*gulp]

In other words.
That was short and really really beautiful lines.

Simply loved it

Arun Meethale Chirakkal said...

That's a lovely lovely picture!

P. Venugopal said...

thanks Deepa... I saw a Kathakali artiste sleeping exhausted after his vigorous performance on the stage the other day, traces of the makeup paint (chutti) still on his face. I could have written more and made a mess of the whole thing. The intelligent thing to do is to be brief so my awesome (to borrow Sorcy's favourite adjective) talent is not exposed to the reading public!
Sorcy, you don't have to 'try'. You are that spontaneously!!
And thanks to Arun too!!!