.....like a dream
which needed to be held down
before it floated away
like a wayward cloud
on a summer day.
i have never used a paint-brush. but i want to paint you a picture of this feeling, this thought, this image in my mind.
it is pleasant, bright. there is a woman sitting in a piazza. some paperwork spread out around her at the table. a cup sitting at the edge. an expression of satisfaction on her face as she is looking up into your amused eyes, as though she is begining to smile back at you. like she knows what's on our mind. like she's about to share something funny with you.
you smile as you look at her.
then you concentrate on the half formed smile, you look more intently at the picture, you realize there is a little sardonic twist at the edges of that smile. then if you look deep enough into her eyes, you see a shade of sorrow, a hint of pain, endured over a lifetime, valiantly fought against and kept at bay, glowering embers adding an undying spark to this picture of mystery.
what is she writing? what is in the cup?
PS: Creative - after watching salaam namaste. if this is what romantic movies do to me...... help me god! :P
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4 comments:
Why did you stop!...go on...
She may be writing the same thing that you did.
The cup is the same where she and him curled together, had had tea in the small chai shop in the misty mountains on a early cold morning ....they both were silent, looking at each other...just like as they are doing now. But, so much has changed since then.......
well resh .. i guess you did a good job of describing the picture .. you even used less than a thousand words !!! nice !
I hope there is coffee in the cup...what might she be writing??...could be filling out forms or even doing taxes....anything but writing what you wrote...too many people doing the same thing takes away the charm of special writing like yours methinks...no?? :-)
Yeah you can hug me...
vedu,
that is a very interesting take :). i hope i will be able to write more sometime soon.
thanks cheti :)
doing taxes!! yikes! but surely agree with the uniquesness angle :) so here is a hug for chay!! :-))
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