Liminal Silence

When an individual reaches the height
Be it a woman or man of bigger stature
Attains the fame and fan beyond name
Required no earthly epithet; even a grass
Feels of its greatness
Like the book, they exude knowledge, ever
Silence is the magic wand!
It creates the Marquezian* ambience, at times

They speak volumes in an unspoken gesture
As if their presence had been God-gifted
The mundane creature at all stages eases out
On the waiting waves of throngs,

when they wave hands towards them
Their very sight descends like a thunder
The earth changes into a mighty Oak
Their stories apart; they spring live to all
Who knows how and when did they become the mighty!

Famous around sans any sound of the conch
That augurs well of a beginning
Unslept nights, sweating dreams chased
Like wolves in a deeper jungle for prey
Furious they become unless their end
Fructified in the end; relentless pursuit
They suffer the limelight in the dazzling
Of fame in the midst of fury in finds

©Basudev Paul

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It was the liminal silence through which they laboured hard constantly. Examples galore in world literature of such an influence. And so, the dazzling limelight reeks of their past picture of sweating labour. Their attainments, their findings, give them the putrid smell they had during their working condition. Now they feel fulfilled.

Márquezian*:

Utterly romantic, mixing the sublime with the putrid and earthly, simultaneously epic and microscopic in scope.

When I was 16, for me love was an invincible force, exciting, enrapturing, Marquezian in its grandeur.

Liminal means

Relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process., occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.

(Adj) Intermediate between two states.

About this poem

The poem speaks about the position/ condition of persons attaining the acme of success. Ninety-nine percent perspiration and one percent inspiration work in anybody’s life. As a baby is given birth by a mother, she rears the child with slender care until she or he attains or stand on their own feet independently.

Before any achievement, they give their hundred percent to the work or assignment they are committed to. When they see the face of success the whole world touches their glory in no uncertain terms. Mere epithet hardly matters to them.

Even a sensitive plant feels the touch of any tangible object. As if they had done some wonders and people throng to praise them. Book works as a silent catalyst. It helps grow the knowledge they nurture or nourish them.

The allusion to the Colombian author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is pertinent here. His use of magic realism derived from the story-telling dexterity from his grandmother. Her narrative bent made Marquez influenced greatly. That is why we find an admixture of romanticism tinted with the decaying smell of realism. This intertextuality is known as Marquezian narrative or sensibility.

In a similar fashion, a man or woman of great stature needs no extramural advertisement. And their very presence seems to be god gifted. The mere sight entertains the crowd they want to have a peep at them. Like an Oak tree, they stand majestic and the whole world waives its gestural communication through applause.

The celebs do not require any conch for the reception. They are great in themselves.

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