A Poem is nowhere else
But moves amongst us!
When conversation
Between two people
Fails to flow freely
Poem suffers silently
Shuttling in the gullet;
A poem convulsing
Standing on the dais of
Conflict and mistrust
Between people of two regions,
Is a disheartening spectacle;
When the camaraderie
In the faces of people disappears
Poem, too, slips all of a sudden
And walks with heavy and pitiable gait.
A Poem is nowhere else
But moves amongst us!
When cuddle it endearingly
Taking it into your hands
It submits without demur
And snuggles like a pussy
Sneaking into your bed in winter.
And then, like it,
Leaps out suddenly
As if it had remembered something
And searches vaguely here and there
And retreats back into your bed
Or curls up at your feet.
A Poem has too sharp a wit!
It slumbers
With eyes half-open
Longing for a hand
That caresses and
Puts her to sleep.
Poem is nowhere else!
One man at dawn
Carries it off with him
In his yoke to places.
It opens its eyes
Either at a farm
Or on the bund of a field;
Another man, a potter
Places doughs of clay
On a wheel and turns it
Round and round with a stick
As if he were
Wheeling the earth.
Then like the Sun
Shooting off through
The undulation of hills
A poem gradually emerges;
Yet another man,
An imaginative visionary
Who can scoop colors from ether
And dab them to a rainbow,
In his presence
The Poem stands hands-crossed
With all humility:
For the painting steals the heart.
A Poem is nowhere else
But apprentices
Under an archer
Who, burning with
Hunger – anger – and dreams
Patiently spins counter-strategies
As assiduously … as a spider!
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Bala Sudhakar Mauli
Telugu
Indian

Balasudhakar Mauli
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