Wayfarers
In cracked soles
dusty finger nails
frosted eyes
musty armpits
the soggy velvet of skin
wayfarers meet
plunging darkness
into night
groping feathers
that fly
into a cage
wayfarers meet
watering thirsty
river beds
nothing is said
silence drowns
swallowed by a whale
wayfarers meet
inside the body
and feed
hunger
their flesh inseparable
at last
wayfarers meet
~FV
(c) Farzana Versey
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Painting: 'L'Etreinte by Picasso
She writes with anguish and pessimism, a journey into hearts of darkness with no light at the end of that distorted prism, mainly because as she astutely observes, “every few years Pakistan writes a new fiction” to keep the embers alive. ”
—India Today
About Farzana
To be categorised is near-death. It would be nice to say that one is a literary vagabond, but it just does not convey fully the sense of rootlessness and ruthlessness one strives for constantly.
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Farzana’s Favorite Books
Every writer, besides the ones I have listed, who has had something to convey that leaves me with the taste of bitter chocolate...that I like.
Is it Picasso's painting that
Is it Picasso's painting that inspired your beautiful, sensual poem?
Picasso
Picasso did come in while I was jotting down the poem, Katherine. The painting was for something else, but then it fit in and I did find my words partially meshing with it. I went to my first line and started looking for the unseen soles in the painting to see if they were cracked. The bed seems comfortable, so it was natural to assume they weren't. But then, in the "plunging darkness" who was to know what one finds where!
Thank you...
~F
I think I should blush or
I think I should blush or something.
Tell me, Eric. Did you? Does
Tell me, Eric. Did you? Does Picasso always have that effect?
~F
Shucks I get that affect from
Shucks I get that affect from landscapes. :)
Everything is a landscape. ~F
Everything is a landscape.
~F
Farzana,Your poem
Farzana,
Your poem and the painting exemplify in form and content (images) what is "aesthetic" better than any academic or philosophical definition. "A poem should not mean but be...for all the history of grief/ an empty doorway and a maple leaf" [MacLeish].
B
Brenden: The aesthetic is
Brenden:
The aesthetic is when content does not have to battle with form and form does not supercede content. They flow seamlessly. I try not to try, leaving some jagged edges sometimes.
The quote is just that. To be. All else is an extension, if not an intrusion.
Your words are always so encouraging. Thank you.
~F
PS: I will reply to your thoughtful comment on the other post in a day or so as I will be signing out in a bit.
Pretty poetry
Brenden:
Thought about our discussion on the aesthetic and our slightly differing views on that post. Reminded me of one of my early poems here.
Pretty poetry
It is not pretty, but...
~F