Have you lost your sounding board?
The one wall that echoed?
Fighting another lost battle,
Lost in dust yet to settle.
We are here, Him and Son,
Some say emissaries of Satan
Who knows? They might be right.
But for now,
We’re your angels from midnight.
Dark circles round the eyes,
Cold breathe in tired sighs.
You are broken wanna bet?
Smoke from a wet cigarette.
Kurt had his own reason,
This is a different season.
Don’t look for an escapade,
No burn out, do not fade,
Life is not a filter’s game,
Don’t sell it for 74 mm.
We know we’re right,
After all,
We’re the angels from midnight.
Interesting.
The poem is mesmerizing, a bit on the cryptic side though, but I guess that is how you meant it to be.
A little thing that just struck me … we all write poems just bare like that. Why not we start adding a couple (or two) of lines/paras to build a _bhoomika_ for the poem? Now that is a two-way proposition. In the puritan’s view, it is in-a-way diluting the poem’s purpose, since the whole idea behind writing a poem is that it is the poem and the poem itself that should convey itself to the reader. However, from the presentation viewpoint, the text can act as a major emphasizer of the poem’s central purpose, and in a way, warm the reader up for what is to come, hence accentuate his reactions.
Let me know what you think on this.
Adios for now.
I think you are right. It’s like adding an Abstract because many times we just write something which may or may not be appreciated by the reader. I guess we can always try to write in a way that it harms the purpose less. When I write, I usually think only about myself (I do the same thing when I am not writing
) so particularly here, a lot many people might just shrug and say, hmm okay, whatever.
How was the 74mm part though?
74mm…camera? don’t be attracted to the spotlight? nice one.
Naah…I meant it for a cigarette. 74 mm is one of the standard sizes. But yeah camera interpretation works too.
7 centimetre ka kaun sa cigarette hota hai be? :O maine bhi pehle cigarette hi socha tha. ya fir cigar ya pipe ki baat kar raha hai?
@Chaachi
Ask someone who smokes. I did the same thing 
Abe 74 mm likha hai. 74 km nahi jo bawaal macha rahe ho…ho hee kar rahe ho