Monday, September 26, 2022

Ode to the Early Winter

 

Autumn thus goes for the early winter,

Coolness now starts to tinker,

Topsy-turvy like an anchor,

It takes hold through its lazy days,

When the sun with its cooling grey rays,

Sprays amusing tender maze.

 

A new canvas on easel for painting:

Farmers go working as if hunting,

Paddy’s brown sweep vanish to nothing,

And the barren fields get new beds,

Such a soft soil for the numerous heads

Of wheatlings, to prop up for survival breads!

 

Look autumn’s leaves brown!

Finally, foliage gets them thrown

From the deciduous with a shivery frown,

While the winter sings a lullaby,

As if to sleep a baby:

‘Too much thou played with summer’s gaiety’.

 

Winter flowers blossom bold,

Lo the dahlia, petunia and marigold!

Wonder, soft petals fear not cold!

And feathered friends from distant arrive,

As if only here lives thrive,

Ducks fly V-shaped to nature’s drive.

 

Rosy pastor, tailor bird and wagtails,

Painted stork, painted duck and common quails,

Because those wintery hails

In mountains force their sojourn here,

And same winter will take care

Of the visitors; whom season’s scold not dare.

 

Mynah, drongo and ecstatic barbler,

Depict they cool-spirited farmer,

The air now bothers not the above ‘warmer’,

Its sulphureous ebriety doth sweep

The hairy velvety grass and keep

The intoxication perpetuated to the deep.

 

The egrets fly drollingly,

In the air blowing genteelly,

The air! As if its spring coming courteously

With its flowery shiver,

Yes! It is airy-fairy’s spring here,

While, ebriated birdies fly as its flowers.

 

Such are the days of early winter;–

Fog, mist, dew, cold quietly enter,

Robustness, meanwhile, makes a small banter,

Vow, the invigorating Goddess smiles!

Blessing of wellbeing for miles,

While, the autumn goes for annual exiles.

Sunday, September 25, 2022

Ode to the Winter

 The winter pouts its fishy full,

Shiver as we beneath clothing and wool,

It jerks its foggy locks,

Fed up with chilly love, ye agrestic folks.

 

The mornings, with Silver Goddess

Spraying silver amidst the greens,

Feathers and furs get drenched,

Dart as birds across tiniest droplets.

 

And the trees seem so stoic;

Immortal shades from His brush,

Whom misty mortality fail to crush,

Vow, as if inspiring spirit from the gothic!

 

Look how the rural damsel goes!

As if dew diamonds a perfect rose,

Her salad gyration at misty dawn,

Anklets jingle to her music own.

 

Birds fly in the foggily-low-sky,

Earlier they took autumnally sigh,

For, too high seemed the teasing blue,

Now the flight without any rue.

 

The noon with a milky smile,

Like a bride after first night

Comes out dreamy and royal,

Others, while, enjoy her facial delight.

 

Aha the light breeze!

Steals dew diamonds from the leaves,

The airy-fairy, it doth tease,

Frees as it the beauty from the seize.

 

How wonderfully the day weds its night!

The crimson setting behind the mist,

Intoxicated gets the light,

Worries not the loss, as the couple kisst.

 

Night fog veils the stars, –

Millions shy beauties

Cajole the dark-misty-lover below,

Whose stoic chill gives a look of neglect harsh.

 

And how lonely the night feels,

As everything takes a shelter,

Like an orphan it tries to enter

A homely warmth in some corner.

 

How sleep prospers under the quilt!

The sleep fed by the bodily warmth;

Humanity energising itself,

As myriad dreams get built.

 

But, also the merciless cold

For the calf and the old,

Both cold-preyed and hold

Their souls inside life’s fold.

Saturday, September 24, 2022

Ode to a Scientist (Stephen Hawking)

 

The wonderful concept of cosmos!

Do you know where lies the boss?

The one related to relativity,

Always attracting souls to its gravity.

 

The forces of nature;–

Consciousness where pervades the matter,

And the space-time continuum

Zeroing on our illusionary vacuum.

 

The defined part of universe:

Luminary physicist’s verse,–

Beyond bigness in celestial bodies of the whole,

And lesser than compactness inside a black hole.

 

Still, human spirit takes quantum jump,

For moments few we dump

God as the possessor of all mystery,

And try a taste of the unknown’s chemistry.

 

Theories are what they are,

Spirit, perhaps, at war

With the matter,

One goes only for another’s better.

 

Reality but always one step ahead,

The ultimate expansionist is, perhaps, glad

To be symbolised as the God pious,

While, a lamp burns as faith on reality’s dais.

Friday, September 23, 2022

To the Solitude

 

The jungle and its solitude,

As if a destitute;

Alone and forlorn,

But happy to be born!

 

Silence rustles through twigs,

While, wilderness wispily digs

The deepest grave for its opposite,

And peace doth invest in wind-fallen deposit.

 

Away, away it seems,

Far away! Thus dreams here

Smile like a reality,

Same dreams, which suffocate in a city.

 

Like a mystic gone serene,

Environment here had been

Meditating from the yore,

While, rain poured with heavenly lore.

 

Like a lass too shy,

It doth try

To preserve its chaste privacy,–

Shrink away from any gaze lusty and lacy.

 

Wonder if everything here goes

On awake or enjoy perpetual sleepy dose!?

Perhaps, both enjoy synchronism,

Aha! The heaven without any antagonism.

 

Love oozes here without paired chemistry;

The love purest in history,

As everything here is a born lover,

And will remain such forever.

Thursday, September 22, 2022

A Name which has’n Written in the Air

 

Death, what a patient game

Thou play throughout life!

A life filled with strife,–

Thou always keep thy dark fame.

 

The life desperately tries to live,

Thou but grab a hideout

In its territory to blowout

The final flicker trying a survive.

 

How meaningless thou make

Everything about life’s craving!

Oh, the name seemst all fake,

After its matter thou annihilate.

 

Someone, perhaps, understands the futility;–

Of a name written on water,

Still, it has the trivial most existing utility,

There are names which even the air deter.

 

The name so lifeless,

That it forgets itself,

With whom fate creates such a mess

That even death fears itself.

 

What death means to such a name?

Meaningless it doth seems,

How can it? There is nothing to maim;

Where there is none of lively dreams.

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

A Long, Long Journey

 

A lone man was walking somewhere,

Along the secluded path’s solace,

Brave walk to some distant place,

Eyes had tear,

As step-motherly fate never hear,

While, the only prize of his long race,

Jewelled his brow with grace,

Still, the destination nowhere near.

 

Looked it like a journey to infinity,

The only success of the footsteps

Was the maintenance of their pedigree,

Destiny followed to wipe them out without pity,

And the failure waited for momentary lapse

By the man, to fill its belly hungry.

Monday, September 19, 2022

Ageless Flower

 

The spirituous wine,

How it addicts the adolescence!

Intoxicated heart, then, pine

For a flower awaiting florescence.

 

Most hallucinating is this

Heart’s spirit,

Head goes all amiss,

And soul suddenly becomes bereft.

Divine potion’s first taste,

Pleasure-garden’s immortal flower,

Fade which not to time’s haste,

Occupy heart’s corner forever.

 

And after a long, long time,

Grave finds something still sublime!