by Harsahej Mann

There are no facts , only interpretations – Frederick Nietzsche

Epiphany

Blank . Empty . Ephemeral . Ethereal .

A realisation that does not last : Misty clouds swirling like mounds of rarified vanilla ice cream disappearing into the baroque depths of a smiling sky . Epiphany , like a euphoric moment , disappearing almost as quickly as it appears . Epiphany , like the tune of a song whose name you cannot remember . Epiphany like the taste of love that used to be , but now is naught . Epiphany , so transient that it never lets you forget .

A new dawn – A Charlatan

The golden splendour of sunlight seeping into the veins of red leaves , obliterating the mauve dusk to blossom into a peach coloured dawn . A new dawn , promising to engender numerous dawns like itself . A new dawn dressed in the sartorial splendour of cherry coloured love . A new dawn , reminiscent of dawns long dead , now traipsing around as the harbinger of light . A new dawn holding the promise of novelty and love but giving neither love nor hope .

A new dawn , scattering shards of iridescent glass across the terrain of cracking hearts that had heretofore sealed their cracks with the golden threads of hope and light .

Reality

Phantasmagoric Spaces and places coloured by blue and pink skies , cut by the searing sharpness of a sleek sky line distinguishing glorious skies from mortal land . Reality – a sleek skyline reeking of a banal reality slowly obliterating the allure of sweet illusions .

Life

A couple of couplets or a code ?

An algorithm or a philosophy?

An illusion or a fictional reality ?

A monotonous sequence of events or a courtroom drama ? Utopia or dystopia ?

A paradox or a lie ?

An amalgamation of narratives or rhetoric ?

A personal essay or a polemical debate ?

A fractured account of a larger episode or the first episode of the first season of a television series ?

An opera or a street play ?

A book review or the script of a play ?

Us mortals , mere letters on a page or actors in a rigmarole ? Life : a play , biography or an autobiography ?

Life : an interpretation , not a fact .

What Colour Is No Colour

Liminal spaces . Grey . Nor here nor there . I do not know where . Neither black nor white , nor grey . Spaces – Blurred boundaries , Broken barricades , Fragmented territories interspersed in an ocean of nothingness . Like a lost traveller , I navigate liminal spaces. Liminal spaces neither here nor there . Liminal spaces neither black nor white , nor grey . Liminal spaces , I don’t know where .

How

Red Roses out of coarse mud . Red out of brown . Sweet out of bitter . Beauty out of crassness . How ?

This Article

A cohort of random thoughts ?A set of questions ? An assortment of thoughts , or a page from my personal diary ? An extract from the book of my life or a letter to a dear friend ? A levitation into numbness or an attempt to add to my writing portfolio ? An ode to conversations on rose specked hillsides or a recollection of a lovely dream ? A note on the margins of my English literature textbook or a draft on WordPress ? A question seeking an answer or an answer seeking itself ?

A Question Without Answers

A question with no answer. A statement or a question ? A blue sky with no clouds . A sky or an ocean ? A sky with no skyline . An Ocean or the sky ? An open window with no view . A window or a canvas ? A room with no door . Locked or open ? A flag with no mast . A Flag or a cloth ? A girl with no dreams . Complacent or content ? A man in tears . A man or a woman ? A sentence ending with both a question mark and a full stop . A question or an answer ?.

Full Stop

An end to an end or a beginning of a beginning ? The termination of a preface or the new beginning of an aftermath ? An aftermath to a preface or a preface to an aftermath ? A semi colon – a continuation as well as an end ; a comma -a slight interim , a full stop the end of all commas and interims . A full stop , the end ?

The End

An end to an end or the beginning of a new end

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Raw Whispers Magazine, edition 3.

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