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Martha Ann Kennedy's avatar

This is my favorite poem of yours yet!!! ❤️

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thank you, Martha!!! Glad it made it to the top of the line :)

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Nazish Nasim's avatar

There’s something hauntingly immersive about this like how silence takes on so many textures and forms. I especially loved the line about the flower speaking without awareness of its color. The closing image of the moon keeping vigil is also very beautiful. This unfolds like a flower blossoms. Like moon ascends in a night. Love this, my friend ❤️

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thanks so much, dear Nazish and am delighted by your kind comment on how the poem unfolds for you. Made my day! :)

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Namratha Varadharajan's avatar

Like Nazish says, the silence here is so textural, a being of its own, with form, and chillness, heaviness and a voice! A brilliant poem for the morning, which i would have loved to read at night, in the silence.

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thank you, Namratha...I think silence can be very tactile...never the same! I'd love to know if the poem feels any different when read at night! :)

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School of Blue's avatar

This is what I have been looking for ... '

Some journeys have

a design beyond the traveller.'

Thank you.

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thank you, Richard. Am so glad that resonated.

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Rosemary Nissen-Wade's avatar

Ahhh!

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thank you, Rosemary... is that the Ahhh I think it is ??? :) :)

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Kerfe's avatar

Another great title. There is so much awareness around us that we can't articulate. (K)

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thanks so much, K. True, the silence is loud...and the words all get tangled up.

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Sherry Marr's avatar

Beautiful. "Some journeys have a design beyond the traveller."

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thanks so much, Sherry :)

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Carolina's avatar

“All there is,

is this ordinariness of being.

The extraordinary, when it

comes, is so immeasurably

small, so painfully personal

that language refuses

to contain it.” — beautiful! The topic of searching vs allowing feels very timely for me.

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Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Thanks so much for reading, Carolina. I love that you picked that line!

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