Saturday, February 18, 2006

Transmutation

Morphed in a flash,
Simplified, trimmed down and concised;
As an abridged pocket-sized chef d'oeuvre,
Dimensions lost
Comprehension gained.

5 comments:

Kaavya said...

hey cryptic posts are my forte! looks like youve caught on too.
Nice work, at laaaaaast at laaaast i get to read on of your poems. i was begining to fear you had turned proseaic ... :)

nothing said...

but would lost dimensions necessarily mean comprehension gained? I wonder.
Nice work of course, though perhaps it could've been a little more lyrica. That's my own conceit though.

Unknown said...

After dabbling in Economics, the final part ought be modified a bit, to read "Dimensions gained, comprehension lost".

Padma said...

I can't belive I had overlooked the comments here!!!
Thank you Imran!!!
And Schazeb, :-)!
Kaav, I don't know whether I can actually write poetry...you need to tell me.
Arka, you are right. Lost dimensions would not necessarily mean comprehension gained.I meant to say that sometimes, to comrehend, we sacrifice dimensions that we think are unimportant.
CK, I know that a lot of people feel that way about Economics but not me sir- I don't think so!
Thank you for commenting all of you!!! I tried my hand at peotry after a very long time!

Eliza said...

I think "dimensions lost/comprehension gained" is very specific. In math, you talk about projections, which is losing dimension(s). This brings out some property that might otherwise be missed. Projections wouldn't exist if they didn't allow greater understanding. I'm not good at interpreting poetry, so I do wonder what it's about.