Ode To A Nightingale
THE TAO OF LOVE
- Maia Katrak
Love
is neither given
nor received
it is glimpsed
in the eyes
of the beloved.
Your heartbreak
is but an itch
in the side
of the Universe.
Love
is neither given
nor received
it is a glimpse
of the end
of the illusion
it is the calm
in the I
of the storm.
We know Emily Dickinson. Sylvia Plath. Sarojini Naidu. Kamala Das.
But do we know our Maia Katrak ?
Maia. Our Maia.
The talented and versatile Maia.
The beautiful and brilliant Maia.
The mysterious and enigmatic Maia.
Never mind if you don’t know Maia.
What’s more important?
The artist or her art? The poet or her song?
Don’t you just love the creative use of words in this particular Tao? The way
eye becomes the “I”. How anything to do with Maia becomes the I? Or sometimes Rustom.
But not Sohrab. Never Sohrab.
What I love about “The Tao of Love” is the Sufi philosophy of love “being neither given or received.”
What a literary gem!
Hence forth we would only be discussing Maia or her poems or Rustom in this blog.
I am sorry but that’s how it is going to be.
- Maia Katrak
Love
is neither given
nor received
it is glimpsed
in the eyes
of the beloved.
Your heartbreak
is but an itch
in the side
of the Universe.
Love
is neither given
nor received
it is a glimpse
of the end
of the illusion
it is the calm
in the I
of the storm.
We know Emily Dickinson. Sylvia Plath. Sarojini Naidu. Kamala Das.
But do we know our Maia Katrak ?
Maia. Our Maia.
The talented and versatile Maia.
The beautiful and brilliant Maia.
The mysterious and enigmatic Maia.
Never mind if you don’t know Maia.
What’s more important?
The artist or her art? The poet or her song?
Don’t you just love the creative use of words in this particular Tao? The way
eye becomes the “I”. How anything to do with Maia becomes the I? Or sometimes Rustom.
But not Sohrab. Never Sohrab.
What I love about “The Tao of Love” is the Sufi philosophy of love “being neither given or received.”
What a literary gem!
Hence forth we would only be discussing Maia or her poems or Rustom in this blog.
I am sorry but that’s how it is going to be.
posted by Anonymous at 9:42 am
3 Comments:
cat fight, cat fight, cat fight!!!
PLACE YER BETS PLACE YER BETS !!!
(i've got 10 bucks says vijay will lose cos he won't be able to migrate his blogger account to google by himslef, let alone remember what his username was...)
Hee hee...
Place your bets place your bets! Is the Dreamcatcher dreaming on? Or is this a grim end for Epilogue... Who will win in this banter-weight slug fest!
LET'S GET IT ON!!!
(with due apologies to UFC)
Banter weight? BANTER weight???
You little weasel faced racoon like crab creature!
And you're supposed to bw Vijay's and my FRIEND!
children, just because your babysitter went for a whiskey glug doesn't mean you all start pissing over my favourite couch. tsk tsk tsk. please go suck some lollipops and lemme tell you the story of the mad matunga man.
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