UNDER THREAT
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Manas Bakshi (India)
Rhythmic rain
Enrapturing a quaint landscape
Far away from
The Amazon rain forest
Sketches your face;
The strawberry mark
Prominent on your right cheek
Always you grumble to bear with
Emblems a bumble-bee
On a white lotus
When the earth's rain washed.
Unable to speak your mind
Before a solitary tree
You think your reticence's identified
with,
You turn towards
The adjoining vast lake
Awaiting the migratory birds
In non-stop flight
Day in, day out---
The ocean-deep maze
Of all that's intangible
They brave outright....
Wind scrawls invigorating words
On their wings,
Weather favours they reach one day the land
Where it rains amid sunshine.....
Bardic your mind's struck:
Neither the tranquil lake
Nor the gracious tree
A safe refuge anymore
For the winged beauty!
No myth, nothing fabricated--
Truth is
Silence of the tree in your mind,
Truth is
Silence of the lake in your eyes;
Greedy marauders everywhere
Are often disguised,
Sufferers' fortitude has always
The blade of light to fight and
survive.
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