That hotspot of grazing delight, the soul dyed with life
In gazing the grazing fields, ink of the sky unfolds its wings
Those solemn threads of lingering thoughts, commend all days long
The aged walking feet, sat like a banyan tree
On the border of the green
Opened eyes, inaction sighting the actions in lead
No falsified hopes daunting the gazing sights and grazing feet’s
Or in contemplating perch of glee,
Through the winking tails of munching buffalo’s in the greens
The lane muddy and the wind remain steady
The sun flips backs the clouds in an adventurous trail;
And the eyes face upwards for inspection.
The aged man with his trunk-en feet’s, waits
It took the whole ramp of the walking sun
To brunch the munching buffalo’s to return
The gravity shunts the dung, awaited field with returns
The wagging tails and slow parades
Starts to bind their creation all in their living bones
O monk with walking roots follows them
Moves from the green, getting blurred with the passing blues
Farsighted the churning glimpses of moving river
Of past patience, or passing daylight, or the cold night to come.
His bodily sack of natural things, hold a wooden stick
And a black tall umbrella hangs at his back shoulder, as a moving rack
It knows not what its like; and gathers them
To restrict the knocks of hunger again.
Once the mud turned concrete, they shall never pass
To keep the breathe alive, the walking roots wonders around the escaped greens
O the buffalo monk as the Vedic sanjeevani makes
The wheels run, to keep the drowsy state awake;
To the humans and central pyre of capital firms
Of what is walking by is flesh, bones with lives
Caught in the sights of neglect
The words from the buffalo monk,
Innate by his un-aged buffalo intellect.
Author – Sonali Gupta
Gumla, Jharkhad, India.
Glossary –
Sanjeevani – A herb that brings life, that is native to India. Sanjeevani translates as “one that infuses life” and derived from a plant that appears in the Ramayana.
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Whose incredible photo is that? …The Peaceable Kingdom personified.
Comment by Heidi Stephenson on 10 August, 2022 at 3:08 pm