A Live Poem
Tell me, what theme you want to add in this free verse flow?
The idea of this content came in today morning while having my morning cup of coffee. Suddenly, in a rush of blood to my cold head (in the morning), I thought, why not write a poem that will continue for an indefinite period, where I will write my interpretation of specific themes or events or thoughts that readers want me to write on.
What I will do is to continue the poem with added words on the mentioned themes by the readers. If there is no prompt word for any week, I will just take the inspiration from the surrounding to ‘fill in the gap’ for that week. Of course, it is an experiment. Bring it on; let’s see how it goes.
Poets capture thoughts, roaming across either inside their scattered minds or, in the air, in an unintentional glance, that later synchronized and poured into a magical flow
sometimes it becomes classic sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes it follows the rules sometimes it won’t,
a beauty nevertheless and silly in some others’ thoughts,
flash feelings scribbled into the ink of a pen or the screen of the digital canvas poets’ disorganized emotions converge into an avatar of words.
Today’s morning light triggered a sudden idea of writing a continuous poem
in prompted words, or asked themes by the readers to mend into my own words whatever the pick is!
a poem for an indefinite period a running poem in screened words.
(Starting with)
The 3rd Monday of 2021
a day of hope an inspiration honoring the human angel who guided the path of honor of dignity of rights of freedom of humanity of opposing the oppression and standing tall against unjustified notions of society as he said,
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail,”
Metamorphosis- theme referred by Susannah MacKinnie
Conspicuous, abrupt evolution around the skin a biological growth spurts of relative changes like the aquatic phase of the newts, or the butterfly transformation, Nah or, perhaps Kafka’s masterpiece poor Gregor Samsa, a quintessentially alienated man conversion into a monstrous vermin isolation, alienation, sacrifice, dehumanization, a burden felt emotion, of course not a supernatural feeling
I opt for a transformation to take place over devilish spirits, changing inner us gradually, not to transform our spirits into theirs not to convert theirs to ours only the metamorphosis to happen to be kinder.
Renewal — theme referred by Mia Verita
Tiredness absorbs me clasps close into a bitter wickedness to left everything alone as it was and later to suffer the consequences in tiresome cry
I see the pilling up of expectations borders closed, connections lost, the old wine in the new bottle intoxication circled smoke causing dents on my heart same 9–5, with intensive micro-managed shits
a time to take a deep breath, I guess a full intake of freshness standing on the sunlight blessings for a renewed soul, uplifted hope towards life.
Diaphanous — theme referred by Carolyn Hastings
Surreal mood kicked in while sipping a cup of tea a pure spring moment waves its gentle motion inside, shaking mental blockage to curve out the fatty reluctance
letters asked me to put them inside a screened canvas where it can form my avatar in front of the world, portraying my strengths and weakness into a digital human form, I said, ‘Huh, so you wanna articulate me through you, poor you, Google and Facebook already had done it.”
You see, our connectedness in the digital key-strokes our interactions, our affections, likings, conversations already transformed us into diaphanous form, us, defined in see-through fineness of digital delicacy into 0s and 1s of binary bits our true soul somehow caged within our physical embodiment.
Acceptance — theme referred by Simon Hamelin
Bittersweet truth unavoidable reality painful disconnects tearful heartbreaks dark dens of a depressed state Covid-19 closed opportunities injustice discrimination point-blank range of harshness dystopian thoughts
cheerful glee fearless embrace boundless adventures a smile on your face hope joys serene nature solitude in quietness
sometimes, acceptance is the only possible route sometimes, challenging the facts matters the most.
Dominoes — theme referred by Alice Floris
Events just like the sequence of adjacent factors clasping together in forming a chain of causal effect perhaps into a ripple occurrence of the knock-on waited to happen in a chain event
the past our current upcoming future all sequenced in a line, connecting dots of episodes creating chapters of domino effect! an evil gesture affecting the next to cause trouble, a good deed bringing greatness to others, which one would you choose to live by?
Conjuror — theme referred by James G Brennan
in an illusionist realm where we sneak peek in the dazzling warp of time inside the robed skin body, cuddling against nature inside a concrete jungle on fabricated rhyme, our mind takes warmth on the established pattern teasing on an imprinted surface on snoozing sounds and darkling smoke, mists and mesmerizing wonderland
on the solace of the swift hologram, a conjuror, with the sleight of hand and illusion mesmerizing the crowd (who are they) with spellbound acts The God! The Universe! Infinity! Trinity!
The answer is still out of reach, or it seems so by the illusion that wrapped us.
Dissolve — theme referred by Ruchi Thalwal
Crawling from the water to the cave of the hills from the tree branches to the warrior phase each step outside the habitable zone made us vulnerable yet moved our species to the next best unbelievable, yet attained
conquered unreachable destinations expanded nests from continent to continent imprinted marks of greatness and elevated to the next,
our glorified past, and the humans who paved the path dissolved in time, but to make space for the generations to come for lighting up the future.
Time dissolves us eventually, our deeds might remain for more.
Find — theme referred by Amy Jasek
(I) Isn’t it unreasonable to find a person who intentionally wants to disappear?
(II) amid the turbulence a quiet place is hard to find, I’m talking about crowd less space in our mind.
(III) Finding is exploring discovering, a thrill to search the pleasure of attaining, simultaneously,
leading to joy or sorrow depends, what your finding is?
(IV) we find things based on the shades we wear inside our hearts.
(V) Not everything is required to be found like a virus trapped inside the icebergs, waiting to get out and spread across.
(VI) A calm mind finds the things without storms different than a mind struggling with stormy thoughts.
Now and the certainty
there is no certainty on the continuity ongoing doesn’t mean perpetuity surrounded by numerous aspects that can change the motions we predict or the mission we undertake
life wasn’t there before didn’t mean that it would have never evolved into the living connection of the undead things the same meaning applies to life too current continuation doesn’t mean future certainty
words evolve, thoughts too lessons we learn we transform we step into newer us
now is the absolute certainty happening now, in the moment experience we get react to ‘now’ like never before embrace ‘now’ with utmost care love in ‘now’, live in ‘now.’
Because current ‘now’ becomes future past and the lost ‘now’ never revert.
Houseplant
The Sun 🔆
“The 3rd Monday of 2021” was inspired by MLK Jr. Day, thanks to Genius Turner for mentioning the day in one of his comments.
I’m adding respected fellow writers to request if they have any particular word for me that I can write about and add in the continuous (live) poem: Mia Verita, Susannah MacKinnie, Trista Ainsworth, Jenine Bsharah Baines, Alice Floris, Ruchi Thalwal, Carolyn Hastings, Indubala Kachhawa, Amy Jasek, James G Brennan, J.D. Harms, Arundhati Thakur, Dennett.
Suntonu Bhadra ▪ Started: January 18, 2021
