I dont think I will be able to do any justice to what I acutally want to express, what I felt for those few moments! Back from California so full of people milling around, Michigan roads offered an interesting quietude. It was a lazy afternoon that day, and I played this lovely song on my car stereo : “O sathi re” from Omkara ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISBIFAH81M
I have loved this song eversince I listened to it for the first time; the melancholic undertone always made me happy and vulnerable, both at the same time. Being the sensuous person that I am, senses of smell, sight and music affect me greatly. That afternoon, the tune of this song just took me to another world oblivious to the zooming cars and shops and people around me. All I could see was the bright fields, the parrot green leaves playing against the wind and the some known images that flashed in my minds eye. In order to not distort this mental picture as I write about it, I tried to keep it abstract. I used the poetic lisence and this is what I scribbled…
Ode to the ode
The flow got me to new environs again
Bewildered, I just stop, stand and stare
Past me the busy world speeds in vain
In some mad rush, I know not where
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I play a song that mutes the space around
On my unhurried wheels, I transcend miles
Like poignant pictures from yesteryears
When red-tinged time froze simple smiles
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I beamed my way into a nostalgia piercing
Images of long lost times where surge
Why couldn’t I date them on time-space setting
Did they from past lives emerge?
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Like a melody far away playing
Pulling me like a soul-mate beckon
It felt real, or surreal seeming
In gratifying anticipation of a union
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The blinding stillness of the noon sun
In vast tan fields under clear blue sky
The zephyr blows the tiny seeds and leaves
And riding on the tune I fly
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The song sang my natural breath
So tranquil on the cricket-silent earth
In the hot summer and the cool breeze
Too far and tired, putting me to ease
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With the song I glide in featherlike lightness
Like a wild dandelion, joyful and directionless
The twilight-sun still warming my cheek
With eyes shut, lost in complete awareness
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That melancholic sweetness lifted me higher
And struck those chords I can explain never
Into a matchless voyage of mellow ecstasy
Taking me yonder, where I found me…
Sonali