Moments In A River of Thought (Poem)

Moments In A River of Thought 

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Sitting cross-legged on a patch

of summer-scarred grass

There's a loud band playing

It's noisy but there's comfort 

Some breeze

Some smoke

Some memories

Clutch the tuft of grass

It's a spaceship in time

There are no tomorrows

Only eternal yesterdays

There's a needle in your groove

You are the Vinyl Man

You are the listener

The music is you

A song sung in full

heard in half

Starlight and sighs

The don't-know-whys

But there's a logic to it all

Like the beauty of a stray yellow leaf in fall

The enchantment

Of captured moments

Hung in an amorphous wall.

Pray the puzzle remains.

For solved mysteries

Take you to curtain calls

     -- Madhavan N

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