Saturday, April 6, 2013

Voice

I hear a thousand voices
in one familiar voice
If there's a collection 
of human archives,
it indeed is our voice
we speak of the unspoken
or of spoken pasts
that has become a cliche
Intonations and pitches
make us discover people
and invent their emotions
sometimes in the art of imitation
sometimes in unknown deliberation
Your voice could remind 
somebody of Dashrath's promise
It could imitate Shakuntala's pain
Your voice can certainly
become some musician's delight
It could raise thunderstorms
or it could burn everything
with the permutation and 
combination of certain notes
You never know
what it could have done
what it has actually done
You delve in your own ears
when you should actually
delve into somebody's voice!

~Nishpriha

I have plucked your voice
and put them on my ears
just like a pair of earrings~Gulzar


9 comments:

  1. you hear that voice..
    the mind dissents
    while heart consents.
    it was there that moment
    then gone
    like the wisps
    of the morning dream
    waiting for it
    you ponder
    whether,it will recur
    reflecting, you drift
    to a repose
    silently,the voice quivers
    apprehensive,to wake you up
    stealthily,slips in your ears
    tells you a secret
    never told before...






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  2. if it was amazing
    yours was magical
    if gulzar was the overture
    you were the crescendo
    while,i,merely the encore..

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  3. and so are you..
    but i am reading love in time of cholera, so maybe it's marquez's magic..

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  4. I haven't done that yet. But I have seen the movie and liked it a lot. Also, I liked one hundred years of solitude, I guess this must be great too!

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  5. one hundred is the magnum opus of marquez, that is the reason i am reading this one.I think seeing the movie beforehand spoils the literary experience..isn't it?

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  6. Well, you know those were the days I was so lazy that I preferred movies. But later, what you said came as a realization and I have been picking up books first and then the movie.

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  7. see how we have floated from nishpriha to gulzar, then vikram and finally to marquez..

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