The railway romance!

The train station has a feeling of enchantment, 

the dust of wanderlust, invisible but felt

the metal doors of dreams are right in front,
dreams of travel that you had,
of distances short and long, 

metal doors with places you have only heard,

you wish you could step in and go, 

but you wait for the train, 

that takes you back to routine

Why is it that you can't follow your dream?
the one to take the road less traveled?

Guess we aren't taught to follow dreams
Our wings clipped long ago in school

Or are we too afraid to break the routine,
and embrace the unknown?




Wrote this sitting in a railway station that will take me home, yet so many trains stopped in front me that could take me to a lot of places, there was a part in me that wanted to sit inside one of those trains and let it take me to wherever it was going. Yet I couldn't do it, there was commitments waiting for me in the grey side of things. People that I want to meet(people I have been seeing all along), work to go to and stuff like that. I would have liked to call myself free and do whatever I wish and I intent on making it work like that. This thought took me to another place and I have decided to travel more, not to be a tourist but a traveler. Hope I can do this. Also check this video out that inspired me a lot. This is how travel should be. I am sure this traveler has a part of Turkey ingrained in him, I am sure he would have touched the soul of Turkey in his travel. I hope all of us can travel the way he did, sooner or later.

Soul poetry. 1:Invictus

Poems - That crafty art of words that instills marvel and mystery altogether... blah! :P

But I love poems, and I write poems, thou not many have seen light, and if you wanna read one poem I wrote recently Melancholia , check it out!

My poems are mainly 10 minute works, primarily due to the fact that I am lazy to sit in front of paper and thinking through and between the lines, I go with the flow, my poems are so, my actions are so and my life is so soo.

So but I gape with Awe of creative works that has inspired generations. So Thought I will share three poems that got me hooked from films.

Invictus is a movie I saw just to listen to that poem, and boy there is only one right way to listen to that poem, narrated by Morgan Freeman. I am telling you there aint any other good way to listen to it.

But here goes the poem , written by William Earnest Henley. goes like this.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Amen I say! Its said that Henley's whole life is depicted by this single poem. Putting one's life into a poem , that is why this poem is so powerful. That is why this poem is said to have taken Nelson Mandela through 27 years of prison. That is why this poem was recited by some ,before their execution.

What if our life could make a poem? Would it be empty or would it be cliche? I hope it wont be either....