A Bird Has Just Commenced Its Flight
[ Prologue ]
This is my preface poem of my first collection of poems in 1990.
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A Bird -
has just commenced its flight
amidst milky cloud herds
in the blue heavens!
So long-
years upon years-
in the dense jungles of its 'mind'
perching on the topmost branches
of its 'intellect'..
combing its wings of 'poesy'
in the warmth of sweet 'solitude'-
Feasting on every bit of
horizon's holy 'delights'
and greener plains' finest 'ecstasies'
and harvesting its crops of 'fantasies'-
With dreamy eyes inhaling deep
the unpretentious and unceremonious
dripping of droplets of 'time'-
Crumbling dejected in its 'failures'-
waning weak in its crazy 'longings'-
Inconsolably weeping and sobbing
in inexorable 'miseries'-
Recreating itself again and again
to totter on lean bones of 'hope'-
swaying its mind to the moods of 'fate'-
To the sturdy ropes of 'hours'
fastening the yoke of
the fleet-footed steeds of 'seconds'
cracking the whip of gentle 'minutes'
it has piloted the heavy-wheeled chariot of 'years'
on the dusty roads of eventful 'past'! -
Perceiving realistically things as they are,
torturing not its torrent of words
into the tight crevices of grinding grammar,
allowing them to glitter in the brilliance
of natural emotions, emitting 'freedom',
it has begun its music of melodies!
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poem by Sundaram Chandrakalaadhar
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