It was the usual Sunday morning. The sun had just begun to cast its impact, yellowing my room and exuding an aura of warmth.
But I was completely drowned in my slumber. Even the sunlight penetrating through the window failed to stimulate me.
The music playing on my I-pod fell upon deaf ears. Thats my usual practice. I tune my playlist on repeat mode and doze off.
So, these natural and man-made objects tried their level best to stir me up but in vain.
Just then I felt as if being tickled under my armpit. That was my phone vibrating. So in the end, a lifeless piece of technology emerged triumphant in instilling consciousness to my sub-conscious mind.
I answered it, half asleep. It was my cheeky cousin on the other end. She had been assigned some work wherein she had to compose a poem on the theme - 'bringing lifeless things to life'. She was explaining all that to me, to which I was listening half heartedly.
I hated this notion of quitting my sleep for somebody else's homework. And then this was followed by a thought process. I started pondering upon the fact that is it really possible to bring still, defunct objects bloom to life?
Why not ! Hadn't the Sun, its Aurora, my I-pod and cell phone sprung to life for a while?
And then I finally decided to compose a poem for her. I chose to instill life in "RAIN". Here's what I could think of :-
RAIN
I strike the barren Earth,
Up from where I soar.
Stooping down from the pedestal,
Of my heavenly abode's door.
I, the daughter of Cloud ;
Sprout to life dormant seeds,
Quench the insatiable thirst
Reward a farmer's deeds.
I create that seven coloured arch in the sky,
And my musical voice speaks in your ears :
Be pious and noble
Like the pellucid water I bear.
Actually, this concept is very interesting. Many poets use personification to add to the intensity of emotions. For instance this poem "Cloud" by P.B Shelley and even "To Autumn" by John Keats.
And now "Rain" by Rashi Mathur as well. =D
So this is how my day began and this is how some form of life and consciousness was infused in this 'lazy couched potato' too. =P =P
But I was completely drowned in my slumber. Even the sunlight penetrating through the window failed to stimulate me.
The music playing on my I-pod fell upon deaf ears. Thats my usual practice. I tune my playlist on repeat mode and doze off.
So, these natural and man-made objects tried their level best to stir me up but in vain.
Just then I felt as if being tickled under my armpit. That was my phone vibrating. So in the end, a lifeless piece of technology emerged triumphant in instilling consciousness to my sub-conscious mind.
I answered it, half asleep. It was my cheeky cousin on the other end. She had been assigned some work wherein she had to compose a poem on the theme - 'bringing lifeless things to life'. She was explaining all that to me, to which I was listening half heartedly.
I hated this notion of quitting my sleep for somebody else's homework. And then this was followed by a thought process. I started pondering upon the fact that is it really possible to bring still, defunct objects bloom to life?
Why not ! Hadn't the Sun, its Aurora, my I-pod and cell phone sprung to life for a while?
And then I finally decided to compose a poem for her. I chose to instill life in "RAIN". Here's what I could think of :- RAIN
I strike the barren Earth,
Up from where I soar.
Stooping down from the pedestal,
Of my heavenly abode's door.
I, the daughter of Cloud ;
Sprout to life dormant seeds,
Quench the insatiable thirst
Reward a farmer's deeds.
I create that seven coloured arch in the sky,
And my musical voice speaks in your ears :
Be pious and noble
Like the pellucid water I bear.
Actually, this concept is very interesting. Many poets use personification to add to the intensity of emotions. For instance this poem "Cloud" by P.B Shelley and even "To Autumn" by John Keats.
And now "Rain" by Rashi Mathur as well. =D
So this is how my day began and this is how some form of life and consciousness was infused in this 'lazy couched potato' too. =P =P
