I thought of making the last line “lonely through the gloom,” which is more what it felt like, but glow seems more evocative of the scene of a dusty Pakistani sunset with long shadows.
I”ve read the three “why the dusk still aches” poems, and I like how you pair the calls to prayer with loneliness. It reminded me of this strange depression I used to feel hearing the bell ring in the local church tower. I only really heard it at night when the streets were empty.
Yes, Heidi, I can see how a church bell ringing would have the same effect, or at least an effect in the same family. There is something very asian/middle eastern in a sleepy dreamy kind of lonely way to hear the call to prayer at dusk, or at least those are the feelings I attach to it.
The tube well’s I describe were these wells in the Pakistani country-side which we would see when we went on long walks in the evening. The motors on them made this chirping noise which echoed. And this clear water would flow in abundance out of these large metal pipes and flow down irrigation ditches, in an otherwise dry landscape.
Funny thing, huh, that I am writing about Pakistan after writing the article I just did?
Does anyone have any other sounds that produce a similar feeling? Several times in songs I have heard train whistles described as eliciting it. And, I believe, a specific style of bluegrass music is called “that high lonesome sound.”
Lots of the cord progressions in the song “Mad World” make me feel that way. I know the lyrics are responsible-in part-but the actual notes produce much of the sadness. As far as other “everyday sounds”, I’m not sure.
I thought of making the last line “lonely through the gloom,” which is more what it felt like, but glow seems more evocative of the scene of a dusty Pakistani sunset with long shadows.
I”ve read the three “why the dusk still aches” poems, and I like how you pair the calls to prayer with loneliness. It reminded me of this strange depression I used to feel hearing the bell ring in the local church tower. I only really heard it at night when the streets were empty.
Yes, Heidi, I can see how a church bell ringing would have the same effect, or at least an effect in the same family. There is something very asian/middle eastern in a sleepy dreamy kind of lonely way to hear the call to prayer at dusk, or at least those are the feelings I attach to it.
The tube well’s I describe were these wells in the Pakistani country-side which we would see when we went on long walks in the evening. The motors on them made this chirping noise which echoed. And this clear water would flow in abundance out of these large metal pipes and flow down irrigation ditches, in an otherwise dry landscape.
Funny thing, huh, that I am writing about Pakistan after writing the article I just did?
Does anyone have any other sounds that produce a similar feeling? Several times in songs I have heard train whistles described as eliciting it. And, I believe, a specific style of bluegrass music is called “that high lonesome sound.”
Lots of the cord progressions in the song “Mad World” make me feel that way. I know the lyrics are responsible-in part-but the actual notes produce much of the sadness. As far as other “everyday sounds”, I’m not sure.