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| Gokul |
Posted
on 17-Mar-01 07:23 PM
Time, You, and I
(Thar desert - Nov 1991)
Let us see, then you and I
Our ethereal world with the dreamless eyes.
When the cold silence permeats the sky,
And twinkling stars seem uncanny and sly.
Like a vast desert with no life to look at
Only sand and cacti; no throb, no coquette.
Where life mocks at life,
And we live only to beget strife.
What's it to be alive? and what's the price we pay?
Let us drink to the lees and say.
Which is more bitter -
A pint of Guinness or life accused of heresy?
Wherein lies my Raison detre? Let me see!
O man, you ask no question.
(The God needs no suggestion.)
Prudent many an eye looks askance at the wilderness.
And pervades everywhere, an uneasy awareness.
The lambency of the sky,
And shining with it a face so shy.
Do I dare ask a question? Why
But my being is sodden with sigh !
The desert so masculine
That it breeds cacti and no roses.
It is very authoritative
Answers not but questions it poses.
Let us make no more visit
To the desert boasting of our defeat.
Let us wade, then you and I
Into the sea and listen to its cry.
Great many a lesson it can teach.
Of joy and sorrow, of compliance and breach.
White spume drifting with the ebb and flow of tide.
Adumbrates the coming of mermaids with waves they ride.
All fairy tales come true in the lonely blue sea.
I scuttle the ship of my being to sink into the fathomless sea(she?!).
The sea so tender
That it moans at every pain.
Yet it can render
Bliss and ecstasy for sorrows arcane.
All the sorrows and sufferings in earth
Are not tantamount to the throe of birth.
And the Man blinded with the virile mirth
Smirks - the feminine of any worth?
How reads the epitaph of a man never born?
Like a bondage attributed to an oath never sworn.
O what matters is just the temporal order.
And I can see a birth previous in the present murder.
(Amor vincit omnia.)
The sea will flood the entire arid land.
Let us be, then you and I
A genderless soul floating on sky.
When the spirit soars high,
And I see you in my eyes.
And I see me in my eyes.
And I see you in my eyes.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 18-Mar-01 12:37 PM
Hi Gokul,
Enjoyed reading the poem.
Thanks for posting it.
Time-permitting, please post more of such stuff.
oohi
ashu
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 18-Mar-01 05:25 PM
Dear Gokul:
I find your poem fascinating.Words are strongly coupled together,
and they convey powerful messages. I am never a good critic, but
I think I need to try to read each word, and try to make comments
whenever it is possible.
I actually remembered my own travel along the Gobi desert(of Sino-
Mongolian provinces). Since I hadn't visited Nepalese deserts
before that, Gobi travel still haunts me. It was a fabulous journey .No cactus there,Gokul, only mountains of sands and dunes,
and occasional herdsmen and oases.Roads were straight all the way,
scenario never changed along the road, sometimes it was creepy,
sometimes it was quaint.Since Gobi served as a location for
nuclear experiment (Lop Chek portion, I guess) for China,a lot of
its parts were heavily fortified . There is a famous Buddhist
shrine in Dunhuang in a Moslem Majority province Xinjiang.
Dunhuang is really spectacular and historically significant and
also features in UNESCO list. Given the fate of Bamiyan Buddhas in
Afganistan, and recent surge of Islamic fundmentalism in Xinjiang,
I have started to worry whether they will outlast this century.
It is really sad that territory along Himalaya and sub-sahara
are so volatile,and so poor, and simultaneously burdened with
the responsibility to save the oldest civil heritages.
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