i look at the glamorous sky in amazement

i look at the glamorous sky in amazement

 

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i look at the glamorous sky in amazement

and look at myself in the same breath in shame

the nature in endless enthusiasm 

with a restless brush in perennial flow 

in matchless varieties through endless ages

creates patterns in myriad colours and shades

all throbbing with life and energy-

no two moments are the same;

and what it fancies, it erases the moment next

with no symptoms of regret-

bereft of imagination on a piece of canvas

i try at times to imitate a moment of creation;

i miserably fail to even remotely gain the grace of a moment ;

yet preserve the rag for years

imprisoning it beneath a majestic frame 

trumpeting my talent in front of everyone

as if it is the master creation to last for eternity!

i deeply meditate and my vain pride commits suicide

and i am reborn into  a pious humility!

o master ! wherever i turn 

i see in wonder your inimitable works -

painted skies,sculptured mountains,laughing rivers,

roaring seas,relaxing plains,mysterious forests,

burning spheres,creations of macrocosms and microcosms --

o master poet! my prostrations at thy holy feet

bless me with a speck of an atom of thy immense power !

 

-----s.chandra kalaadhar