Its a chilling telling on our world, that when Tomas Transtomer died on 26th March, I almost did not read about it till 29th...and I read quite a bit. I do make it a point to understand and assimilate the world on my terms.
And poetry is the gold nugget in my "terms"....and yet I missed this.
I have read only one of the books, the collected poems, and I have to doff it off the the legend. His metaphors were haunting and the images stark and real....exactly the way I see and percieve my everyday world.
Which brings me to one of my favorite meditation?
What does a poet do?
A poet is a rouge photographer, who instead of working with images, records words. He revels as a raconteur of stories told with a meter or otherwise, of memories which otherwise would be forgotten. He is the cartographer of our life, our social travails and he is also holding a mirror upto long after we have stopped ever looking.
On the death of another poet who made a real difference in my outlook to life, my heart weeps a silent tear.
From his poetry collection "The great engima"....
Death stoops over me.
I’m a problem in chess. He
has the solution.
And poetry is the gold nugget in my "terms"....and yet I missed this.
I have read only one of the books, the collected poems, and I have to doff it off the the legend. His metaphors were haunting and the images stark and real....exactly the way I see and percieve my everyday world.
Which brings me to one of my favorite meditation?
What does a poet do?
A poet is a rouge photographer, who instead of working with images, records words. He revels as a raconteur of stories told with a meter or otherwise, of memories which otherwise would be forgotten. He is the cartographer of our life, our social travails and he is also holding a mirror upto long after we have stopped ever looking.
On the death of another poet who made a real difference in my outlook to life, my heart weeps a silent tear.
From his poetry collection "The great engima"....
Death stoops over me.
I’m a problem in chess. He
has the solution.
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