Saturday, December 25, 2010

Who is sHe?

I have been very much influenced by poetry. Mostly shayaris. I have made an effort to write a few as well. To those who do not know what shayaris are, those are mostly Urdu and sometimes Hindi quadruples. The most common themes being love, separation and life.
I came across a blog where the blogger’s identity wasn’t disclosed. The blog had hundreds of shayaris. I was deeply impressed reading the various themes reflected, the language and the gracefulness in which the shayaris were written. I wish I could share with you the link but unfortunately the blog is now open only to selected readers.
There was some kind of a smooth flow and seemed to make things so easy. Like everything was so pleasant in the world and there is nothing beyond hmmm.. ah! I fail to even express my feelings in a mere sentence and that person so carefully and beautifully has knit lovely poems out of his feelings (lovely is an understatement).
I have rarely been influenced by a person to THIS extent!

Anyways, I was overwhelmed by the way it was presented and started liking the anonymous writer and for some reason assuming it to be a HE.
One of my friends thoroughly enjoys poetry. He writes some great stuff and is too humble to consider himself to be good at writing.
I shared the link with him as it was something of his interest too. I glorified the poems to an extent which might have seemed unreal but I had a reason! It WAS that good. My friend enjoyed it very much. (Stress the ‘very’)
We were so swayed by those writings that we spoke to each other in similar tones for a few days. Sounded filmy to be speaking that way on a daily basis.

Coming to the point why I wrote this post was, after reading the poems in the blog my friend texted back to me and said, “Whoever it is, she is a complete person, the most beautiful of them all.”
What struck me was, he assumed it to be a SHE. There was nothing so evident in the blog to have implied by either of us that the writer was a male or female. I asked my friend as to why did he think that it was a ‘she’. A shrug and he said he assumed it to be a lady and it didn't strike to him that there is another possibility. I had a similar explanation. It dint occur to me at any point that it could've been a lady.

I still am in search of an answer. Any inputs?

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