If I could photograph
Each drop of rain, from whence it fell
Parting painfully from the cloud
Of like minded thoughts in drops
Falling down, down, down
Barely seeing.
Just zinging down.
Kamikaze
Of a different sort.
If I could capture
The colours that drop caught,
In tandem with a million others…
Slip into the rainbow then,
And live those emotions.
If only, if only,
I could then save that drop.
From being spattered.
With my eyes, and through my lens
Keep it frozen, right there,
When it deflects, reflects,
Not genuflect to the scheming
Insanity of those who don’t
Quite know,
The magic.
The absolute beauty.
Of how that drop came to be.
15 June, 2014
Online, prowling the www, on FB, and seeing this picture on Jeevan Mohandas’ profile 🙂 🙂
A Quest on Overdrive ... :) 
June 15, 2014 at 1:27 pm
I know what you saying. .but if we could picture every drop then it will become common …
Nature has its secrets
Lovely poem..
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June 15, 2014 at 1:29 pm
Thank you Bikramjit! Indeed, nature has its secrets 🙂
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June 15, 2014 at 9:33 pm
Beautiful usha ji… u sent me to a world of imagination.
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June 18, 2014 at 9:52 pm
Thank you SB 🙂
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June 15, 2014 at 11:33 pm
Sigh. That has been my wish too, photographing with eyes. If only!
Beautiful words, I quite imagined those drops falling. Kamikaze, yes of a different sort. What a way to put that 🙂 Loved it.
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June 18, 2014 at 9:52 pm
Shail, thank you 🙂 Sigh! The wish oh the wish to do so!
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June 16, 2014 at 11:14 am
As Shail has written, that part about kamikaze is my fav too. And even more important ,” not genuflect to the scheming insanity of those who don’t quite know the magic.”
I have the same wish. That my eyes could capture an image and keep it forever.
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June 18, 2014 at 9:53 pm
Meggie 🙂 🙂 Thank you 🙂 🙂
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June 16, 2014 at 1:59 pm
*sighhhh* 🙂
Click, click, click – my shutter would go all the time 😀
Your words flowed like the rain!! 🙂
…i wish for more kamikaze!
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June 18, 2014 at 9:53 pm
David, thank you so very much 🙂
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June 16, 2014 at 3:58 pm
Usha teacher, glad to meet someone with similar love for rains. 🙂
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June 18, 2014 at 9:04 pm
Hi5, Rekha 🙂 Thank you for writing in 🙂
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June 17, 2014 at 11:47 am
I come here after years and whattay coincidence again! You use the word Kamikaze – my earlier pen name. Even I wish my eyes could take photographs 🙂
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June 18, 2014 at 9:03 pm
I thought of you Ruchi, the moment the word Kamikaze presented itself 🙂 Am so glad that you could share in the write too 🙂 Thank you for being here!
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June 17, 2014 at 9:08 pm
Lovely verse ….. this is much appreciated by myself a photographer
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June 18, 2014 at 9:03 pm
Thank you Peter! From a photographer’s point of view, this is a precious quote, isn’t it? 🙂
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June 18, 2014 at 8:54 pm
Ma’am, if we were to capture everything, what good does the memory do? Isn’t it the capacity to reflect upon memories which aren’t captured by a camera that makes us human? The best shots I feel are the one’s we do not snap up, what say? Wonderfully written was a joy to read.
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June 18, 2014 at 8:58 pm
You have a point there, Madhav! But sometimes I so wish I could just capture THAT moment and hold it true, for I know my own memory to be hazy when I just want it not to be 🙂 Wishes, wishes… all are but wishes of the heart 🙂
I’ve always felt that those who have a photographic memory are blessed. Probably cursed too, to remember and know things they would rather forget, but there it is 🙂 What we lack sometimes, we want so very much 🙂
And, there is such unimaginable, mind blowing beauty all around, that one simply wishes one could do this 🙂 🙂
Thank you Madhav! And welcome to this space!
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