A faint tick-tick of a water-drop
Dripping from a rustic-tap
Echoing through the lazy nights
Almost like a sweet lullaby
Dab-dab of my throbbing heart
The time pauses between the
The two knocks, an ancient
Cradle song lulling me into slumber
But a sound sleep is a distant
Mirage, it seldom knocks
On doors of lonely ones
while some are melting in
the heats of night submerged
in passion filled-songs
others might be again re-
living some vague visions
an ant crawls up my sleeves
searching a crack or fissure
to nap for a while looking
straight in my gaunt eyes
but she has some woe
as me, isolate she just
like me just runs here-
there all this when time
ceases between the
tick-tick a of water-drop
Wow, lovely imagery.
Thanks a lot Jaya for your kind read, truly appreciate it!
Amazing
Thanks a lot Sakshi for a kind read, I truly appreciate it!
Aha. What beautiful depiction of emotions through some great metaphors. Loved the ant story at the end
Thanks a lot Shantanu, for your kind read. I knew you will love the ant story, you enjoy stories don’t you?
I love stories. ❤️❤️😊😊
me too, 🙂
See we found some common ground
me too 🙂
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Beautifully written, Tanya. I like the association between the dripping tap and the throbbing heart. You have worded it very well with the onomatopeic sounds “tick- tick” and “dab-dab” increasing the lovely flow and musicality in each verse. I find the female gender specification of the ant interesting. There seems to be certain rivalry between the she-insect, so apparently insignificant for its smallness, compared to the human being that tells the poem. However, at the same, there is also some identification between the two beings; both feel loneliness and meet each other in time, marked by the intervals of the tick-tick coming from the dripping tap.
Thanks a lot for your detailed analysis, it all happened one night while I was trying to sleep while listening to the the tick-tick of drops of water, I felt the intervals of heart-beats and tick-tick was very similar. Hence I conceived the poem out of it. I truly appreciate your analysis, its always feels satisfies to read literary analysis on the poems. You indeed are a great reader!
Thank you, Tanya. Reading and poetry are passions of mine. Thank you so much for the follow too. I really appreciate this! Will get to more of your work.
My pleasure, literature is my passion too.
Lovely!
Thanks a lot Warren, how very kind of you!
You’re very welcome!
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