ARTISAN OF WORDS


I am an artisan of words
Which I sculpt, chisel and fashion the way I can;
I am a creator of worlds;
I pour my emotion into the poems I write.
I breathe life into them, blow them skywards
And finish them only when they sound right.

These remnants of thought without reason
Will remain on pages season after season
Long after I'm gone; when my task is done
The love, the longing, the pain
Will be evoked then by somebody else
Who in turn will remember and write again
To create another slow soft song
That people can read and draw into their hearts
Then pillowed by words, cushioned by dreams
My poems will ride high the moonbeams.



Copyright: Rani Turton 2007


Monday, February 9, 2009

This Emptiness Within: Poem


This Emptiness Within


This emptiness within, an utter stillness that could,

Would, should remain transfixed by eternity


Not a sunyatian stillness not the perfect void

A void, no, rather devoid

Not a perfect vacumn not even the space

To fill up a space that


Silences and stillness from analysis

Springs nought; not the naught but the knot

And the stillness and the silence in empty hearts

As far from perfection as existence

As far from existence as perfection

From where perfection springs

From the depth of the naughts


This emptiness within, then as still

As far from perfection's existence

As from perfecting existence


Transcends and permeates the fickle uneasy mind

Leaving mind and thought and emotion far, far behind.


Copyright: Rani Turton


2 comments:

3L said...

I feel a little intimidated leaving a comment because that poem is a gorgeous piece of work. Fluid and soft but hard hitting at the same time. I loved every minute of it.

Kuldip said...

poem is like a mirror of a poet's soul. u've expressed better, i like it. hope 4 the best.