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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Message Ethereal...Part 1</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Note: These poem excerpts are my independent works based on the story material of the Sanskrit poetic work ‘Megha Dhootham’(Cloud Messenger) by Poet Great Kaali Daasa- 5th centuary AD </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>1<br>O worthy Cloud! I bow to thee; <br>Bestow your eyes on this hapless me, <br>On this Yaksha* unlucky; <br>I am standing on my weakened feet, <br>In front of my hermitage, down this valley<br>2<br>My master, Kubera* the lord of wealth <br>Has expelled me from heaven<br>For my accused negligence to duty; <br>Accused I was, I pampered my spouse<br>Failing to fall in time for my lord’s service; <br>I bear his wrath; am in exile now on earth <br>In this Ramgiri* for one full seasonal cycle<br>Unfortunate I am, left to live alone, <br>Separated from my beloved young wife...<br>3 <br>Was it a crime? You tell me<br>For someone as youthful as me <br>If allotted his time his heart<br>More to his beloved new bride? <br>They are lords their words are rules<br>They enjoy all the celestial bliss, <br>Despite having their own Devi*<br>They share shamelessly the Apsaras* girls; <br>O virtuous Cloud! I salute thee, <br>Tell me who have more sinned now? <br>They or the poor servants like me? <br>4<br>^O Cloud, you mighty and dark, <br>As if a tusker in *madh, <br>Butting against a mountain bank, <br>You appear high on the *Aashaad awaiting sky, <br>Full of water virile, of life; <br>You arouse my desires my lust <br>You rekindle my enthusiasm the fire inside; <br>What if my armlets <br>Have slipped down my forearms <br>Weakened by the sustained blows of parting? <br>I pray to you, may you carry my message of love, <br>My feelings, in the distance to my grief stricken wife...</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">(To be continued)  </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">1. Yakhsha- one of the working classes in the heavens...the singers<br>2. Kubera- The controller of heavenly wealth<br>3. Devi- the lawful heavenly wife<br>4. Ramgiri- a place in the Chitrakood mounts of central India where prince Ram and Sita stayed briefly while in exile from their kingdom of long fourteen years <br>4. Apsaras girls- the celestial dancer nymphs<br>5. Aashaad- the month beginning the winter season<br>6. Madh- A periodic condition in bull elephants wherein they remain sexually charged, aggressive with copious discharge of thick secretion called ‘temporin’ from the temporal ducts<br>7. ^ Simile original of Kaali Daasa</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=563693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">18 04 2009</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Kesav+Venkat+Easwaran">Kesav Venkat Easwaran</a></strong></div>