Someone is walking away
sacking the clay
sedimented
on the banks
abraded and
shoved by Time.
*
Wetting the heap of argil
on the potter’s wheel occasionally,
The Moment is
Pressing it to shape.
Separating it from the wheel in a trice
like a midwife who snaps the umbilical,
Youth harmonizes it
tapping it with a spatula.
Manhood is the brittle,
shapely, unburnt pot
dried up in the sun.
It is time to burn it
in the kiln of life.
*
Sir !
Putting your ears to it
and tapping it with your knuckles
you test my quality.
Am I sound?
*
O, my dear son!
You circle around the pyre
With potful of water
Without looking back.
Child!
Hold the pot rather carefully!
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Ravi Verelly.
Mr. Ravi Verelly is a Software Architect with TMEIC. Currently, he lives in Roanoke, Virginia. He went to US 15 years ago. He is very nostalgic about his village Amudalapalle and his childhood memories. He published his maiden collection of poems in Telugu … Doopa (Thirst) recently.
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