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Ashok Kumar Madhunlall

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Poem "Within Without":
- written November 2009
- published November 12, 2009
- viewed 201 times

Other poems by Ashok Kumar Madhunlall:
»Healing Dawn«
»Heavenly Panorama«
»The Evil Twin«
»The Mind-Genie«
»The Nagging Dusk«
»The New Leaf«
»Tidal Force«
»Untainted«


»Within Without«

by Ashok Kumar Madhunlall

Into a million pieces the lightning shattered the night sky;
Incessantly the thunder rolled, awaking every living being.
Every nerve in his brain, circuiting the news, he could not deny;
Cold, clinical, concise thoughts ricocheted, as played out previously in a dream.
The scorched earth mercilessly pelted by the rain;
Lightning streaked across the sky, jagged scars streaming.
Tears welled up – ran down furrows – the dream said, "Insane";
He searched the horizon looking for answers, screaming!
As quickly as it started the rain did end;
The stars from their hideouts began to peep.
But the thoughts in his head reverberated: "For me will she fend?"
His faith in God and Love his fears put to sleep.
The stars radiance pulsating to him reaching
His mind wandered for answers searching...searching.

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  •  Gigi Yenk: "Its often only in poetry that we let out pieces of ourselves captured in words, there for anyone to make of what they will"
  •  Khanyie: "This is a wonderful poem, so real and inspiring. I love it!!!!!"
  •  Michelle Clark: "Thank you for such great reading, well done!!!!!"
  •  silindile: "thank you for such wonderful poem, never fail to motivate us, you have a talent then use it before God take it away from you,"
  •  Julian: "A dark phase........."
  •  Mervin: "Ak, this is a good poem where the external natural storm cannot be compared to the intensity of the nervous energy within you."
  •  Rani: "Really love the style and use of language, very good in fact excellent"
  •  Don: "A good sonnet."
  •  Bram: "A lovely sonnet with deep spiritual meaning."
  •  Dion: "Thank you for such an inspirational piece of writing."
  •  Patrick: "Fantastic poem"
  •  Khanyo: "It is a poignant poem in which the external storm is a piercing, reflection of the storm within."
  •  Jeeven: "Very vivid!"
  •  Sheila Nair: "Fantastic explosion of emotion. Well done !"
  •  tersia: "i enjoyed reading it."
  •  valentia: "Interesting,you can't stop reading till you reach the end and that's when you understand the content of the poem"
  •  Rhoda: "The flashes of lightning really does resemble the flashes of thoughts that goes through our minds every minute of every day...some worse than a thunderstorm that never seems to go away. Fantastic analogy."
  •  roshan: "expressive language but still cannot explain the turmoil within."
  •  Tess: "Interesting"
  •  Eric: "Wonderful...and i cannot thank u enough for introducing me to this site"
  •  peter: "emotions indefinable lyk da lightning."
  •  Tasveer: "A interesting poem.....that throws the reader into ur mind...... the storm outside can not be compared to the storm within your mind....."
  •  Logas: "imagery interesting - helps the reader to understand the speaker."
  •  jalapeno: "the nervous energy of the lines expresses the tone of the poem."
  •  csm: "very expressive"
  •  Saneshen: "Once again, relates to every reader as we all have those moments yet never spoken off.Great one!"
  •  Akshar : "Wonderful!!!!!!"