I would take a brush and paint the blue wind

I would take a brush and paint the blue wind

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I would take a brush and paint the blue wind

Or write a poem in words that were never there;

But in this wide world a canvas I could not find

To hold all the hues, or sense the silence to bear.

To be an artist you have to be the art,

Dance, I’m told, when become æoned dance;

To be the dew you have to have a heart

Of the morning only mornings enhance.

Darling blossoms of April spring up to sight,

Their fragrance is in the sweetness of verse;

But I am looking for a tall ladder of light

That joins universe to topless universe.

There the words mean what they had indeed meant,

Feelings ten times more than the written content.

Featured image: A Painting by Claude Monet.

Here is a part of a painting by Akash Deshpande illustrating the line:

“I would take a brush and paint the blue wind”.

11 responses to “I would take a brush and paint the blue wind”

  1. practicallymaximum08ddf0ed46 Avatar
    practicallymaximum08ddf0ed46

    Beautiful .Jai Maa Shri Aurobindo Lord of Grace and Mercy.

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    1. RY Deshpande Avatar
      RY Deshpande

      It is not Shri Aurobindo; it is Sri Aurobindo.

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    2. Shankar Nag Avatar
      Shankar Nag

      HI NEERAJ DA HOW R U

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  2. Mahesh Karandikar Avatar
    Mahesh Karandikar

    Tall ladder of light … higher faculties…emotions way beyond words… great indeed 👌👍

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  3. Anjali Jaipuria Avatar
    Anjali Jaipuria

    Written art work, a visual poem with the capacity of ascent, up the “tall ladder of light” for the silent ones!!

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  4. Shankar Nag Avatar
    Shankar Nag

    wonderful poem wonderful paint by AKASH

    aashcaryavat pashyaami aashcaryavat shrunomi enam

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    1. RY Deshpande Avatar
      RY Deshpande

      Gita 2.29: Some see the soul as amazing, some describe it as amazing, and some hear of the soul as amazing, while others, even on hearing, cannot understand it at all.

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      1. coralfreely51a5404e69 Avatar
        coralfreely51a5404e69

        Haan dada ENAM MEANS THIS ONE I MEANT YOU /YOUR POEM/PAINTING (आश्चर्यम् 😮 अद्भुतम् 😮 अपारम्😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏)

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      2. Soham Karandikar Avatar
        Soham Karandikar

        “But in this wide world a canvas I could not find

        To hold all the hues, or sense the silence to bear”.

        Indeed maintaining a state of internal silence is too difficult for many worldly canvases.

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  5. RY Deshpande Avatar
    RY Deshpande

    आश्चर्यवत्पश्यति कश्चिदेनमाश्चर्यवद्धदति तथैव चान्यः।
    आश्चर्यवच्चैनमन्यः श्रृणोति श्रुत्वाप्येनं वेद न चैव कश्चित् ।।२६।।

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  6. RY Deshpande Avatar
    RY Deshpande

    One sees it as a mystery or one speaks of it or hears of it as a mystery, but none knows it. That (the Self, the One, the Divine) we look on and speak and hear of as the wonderful beyond our comprehension, for after all our learning from those who have knowledge, no human mind has ever known this Absolute. II:29 The Message of the Gita

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