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
Friday, November 27, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Nets And Knots: Poem
Nets and Knots
Nets and knots, knots and nets.
Away from the shore, away from land
Into the mist and sea
Living, living and trying to be.
I am not a knot in a net
A knot I am not.
But, yet all I saught
Taught me naught
Life was a lesson, a reason
A long way have I come.
Nets and knots
Knots and nets.
Away from what I wanted to be
Just fishing on a lonely blue sea.
Copyright: Rani Turton
Nets and knots, knots and nets.
Away from the shore, away from land
Into the mist and sea
Living, living and trying to be.
I am not a knot in a net
A knot I am not.
But, yet all I saught
Taught me naught
Life was a lesson, a reason
A long way have I come.
Nets and knots
Knots and nets.
Away from what I wanted to be
Just fishing on a lonely blue sea.
Copyright: Rani Turton
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Instants: Poem
INSTANTS
These fragments of time
Dewdrops in an oasis of a lifetime
Distance, duration and enduring
Instants transfixed by memory
Transferred to the mind and brain
These moments of memorizing who
What why when where
Life flows on, and episodes blend into episodes
Chapters begin, end, pause;
Instants of grace, intense and fleeting
Love heals all, even by a chance meeting.
Copyright:: Rani Turton
These fragments of time
Dewdrops in an oasis of a lifetime
Distance, duration and enduring
Instants transfixed by memory
Transferred to the mind and brain
These moments of memorizing who
What why when where
Life flows on, and episodes blend into episodes
Chapters begin, end, pause;
Instants of grace, intense and fleeting
Love heals all, even by a chance meeting.
Copyright:: Rani Turton
Labels:
chance meeting,
fragments,
grace,
instants,
love heals,
memory,
time
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Bit of Moon, Bit of Roof, Leaves: Photograph
A bit of roof, the moon in daylight and some leaves...a strange tableau.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
At Sunset, Today
At Sunset, Today
At sunset, today when the sky turns red
When clouds, try to veil the sky; when birds nest
And are too tired to fly
When workers, tired, straggle back home
And school has closed for the day
And in houses the curtains are drawn
When lights spring into life
And the spirit, tranquil, reflects
On the events of the day
At sunset, today, when the sky turns red
Father, grant everyone his daily bread.
Copyright: Rani Turton
Monday, November 9, 2009
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