This is the age of recycling...an idea just stuck me this morning: What if we were to Recycle Emotions...?


Recycle Me

As I send my unwanted, unpleasant, rejected poems
To the recycle bin,
As I save waste water scrupulously to be sent for reprocessing,
To be purified clean, pristine,
As I sit and write calligraphically my poem on hand made paper,
Artistically primed,
Conscious of a cause I am helping there in;

I think:

What if Emotions were to be Recycled?

Would my broken heart be shredded to pieces first?
Mixed with fresh blood into an amalgam,
Then reshaped, remoulded into a new one,
Pure, pristine, untouched by none,
Ready to be written upon by fresh hand
By fresh ink and pen, like a fresh hand made paper?

Would my torn soul be mended, stitched? Melted, welded?
Into a whole new one, inexperienced, uninitiated, unreciprocated,
Ready for fresh love, fresh ecstasy, fresh agony, fresh depths to be plunged?
Like ether float afresh on the clouds of life, soar high and reach lofty heights,
Plunge deep into the Ocean of life, pearls of wisdom to seek, gems of experience to reap,
To nurture with my heart's own blood, the love of new life, with the depths of my being...

Would I change anew my life?
Would I ask my sorrows to be wiped?
Would I command my tears to dry?
Would I balm my sores to heal?
Would I request happiness to stay?
Would I ask my love not to betray?
Would I opt to be free, off all worry?
Free to be on a soulful spree, freeeee...
Would I ...?

What if Emotions were to be Recycled?


Author: Zoya Zaidi
Aligarh (UP), India
Copyright©: Zoya Zaidi




Poetry by Zoya Zaidi
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Written on 2006-03-19 at 12:37

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Stan Cooper The PoetBay support member heart!
Zoya...you've done it again...
You've a wonderful imagination and you wonderfully
poem it...

xxx Stan
2008-12-03


katiiieanne
Very good idea. Only one question..."untouched by none" it's a double negative which gives off the idea that it IS touched by everyone. I have a feeling you mean something of the nature of "pure, touched by none".

Something of the sort. It's a great poem tho.
2007-05-26


pia
Oh-you are so clever ...recycle emotions ...With your poem you make me realize that we can try again (even if its damm hurtful and we might fall again and hurt ourselves ), often we are much to much afraid and therefore we fail....Please - recycle me too!! Wishing you joy-Pia
2006-05-07


Teala
Thought provoking yet again, very nice!
2006-04-10


she
If emotions were to be recycled, I would be the first to give my heart out!!!
Would I ask hapiness to stay? CERTAINLY YES
Would I ask my love not to betray? I WOULD PREFER WE NEVER MET
Would I opt to be free of all worry? Noo...Worry makes me realize that there is something I actually care about and that is very important to me!!.....

These are the reasons I love your work Zoya, you speak right to my heart!!!!!Hats off(appaluse**applause**)
2006-03-30


GB
Yes , my dear Z .... RECYCLE . Our lives are all but that , from the cradle to the grave , the cave to this modern age ...but there's ALWAYS that one thing WE all STRIVE for .... LOVE ...... GOOD READ Z ..... Enjoyed this .... G
2006-03-30


Zoya Zaidi
I wish Marelene, that was possible?
I wish we could; There is a beautiful Quatrain by Omar Khayyam, and I Quote:
"Ah Love! Could you and I with Him conspire
To grasp the sorry Scheme of things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits- and then
Re-mould it nearer to our Heart's Desire!"
2006-03-24


Marlene Tyrell
you really have a beautiful mind, my friend... I think we should recycle the whole world, and take better care of if it this time ^_^

like this very much..
"Would I command my tears to dry?"

*hugs*
2006-03-21


Jon Hanover
I will give this a few more reads to really make sure that I can really give it the review it properly deserves. I see the talent there, the structure itself is something new to me but I am no formally trained poet. I will get back to this soon.
2006-03-20


Feiyn
Oops didn't rate.
2006-03-20


Feiyn
I love your poem! It incorporates what one thinks of "maybe if I could just forget" or "maybe if I had never met you". I know I do. I think that makes the poem really special.
2006-03-20


Rik The PoetBay support member heart!
A poignant message well delivered.
2006-03-20


Alexander
Wise indeed Zoya. Great piece:) Loved it:)


Alex
2006-03-19



A wise poem from a wise woman!
(Let's just remember that toxic and dangerous substances, like Cadmium, should be discarded in special containers...)
2006-03-19

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