I work with words
Work around them
Turn them inside out,
Sometimes invert them
Within themselves…
Split each one, tear limb from limb
And share their screaming silences
Or their silent laughter
With innocence writ large in confounded
faces
Sometimes, again, with blasé bored shut down faces.
Sometimes, I see them dancing, hanging playfully
Below the ceiling, creeping in through windows
Where a stray eye streaks out to escape the
Stifling metaphor that coagulates her brain…
And at question time, I wonder at the looks:
Ask, and eyes vacantly hunt upwards,
Seeking the selfsame words I tried to give them
Only they indifferently ignored them… 🙂
And now, I see them, there, tantalizingly hovering
Playing hide and seek, as the questing eyes
Cast upwards…
Quest(ion)ing…
How I love that about them!
31 January, 2012
((Live in Class today :))
A Quest on Overdrive ... :) 
February 1, 2012 at 12:24 am
Wow.. Loved this. Took me back to my school time .(question time is the most dreaded time in class) .
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February 1, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Sunitha 🙂 Question time is a pretty dreaded time for those on the other side as well… we need to hang on to patience 🙂 These day we get more questions, than answers, and that pleases me too!
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February 1, 2012 at 9:57 am
I loved the humour and what a skillful word play I must say Usha hugs 🙂
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February 1, 2012 at 9:56 pm
Thank you Soma 🙂 Hugs to you too!
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February 1, 2012 at 12:15 pm
Poor kids.. 😛
and hey its the pressure, too many words – too little time
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February 1, 2012 at 9:56 pm
Lol, Tito 🙂 🙂 There is that, definitely! Too many words, anyways :D!
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February 1, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Metaphors are my favorite, love it that yours are all your own, not coagulating my brain, just wishing I could create some too 🙂
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February 1, 2012 at 9:57 pm
Awww… thank you IHM 🙂
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February 1, 2012 at 1:11 pm
New pictures in your header… your parents?
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February 1, 2012 at 9:57 pm
Yes, when I changes from twenty ten to twenty eleven, I lost the previous headers, so had to upload new ones, and therefore decided a new set , most of them 🙂
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February 2, 2012 at 4:09 pm
Hi Usha, (It’s quite a while since I visited your blog and I today realized I am not yet following your blog! Can’t believe it!)
Love the way you work with words.At times teachers have to be such scarecrows. Reminded me of a poem you might be familiar with:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090114012836AAqzvam
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February 2, 2012 at 10:04 pm
Hahaha! Bindu. Thank you for following the blog 🙂
Oh yes, I do remember that poem! A delightful one 🙂 This silly ramble reminded you of that? Lol. Thank you for that too!
Scarecrows and worse 😀 arent we sometimes!
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