Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Hoof marks of Time


(From my poetry Collection 'Signatures')
Signatures
When to return back home?
What is the time due?
The cattle I brought
to the woods for mowing
never ask me
such silly questions
for they knew it very well
Only I forget often.
When would  I  
learn the time of
returning back?
I don’t know.

The green meadow
which lies around me
under the serene  mountain slope
curls like signatures
scribbled on by the wind.
The sound of chewing
and the smell of green grass
combine with
the cradling wind lullabies 
make me close my eyes

I was transported  away
To somewhere of
no guaranteed  terminals.
The sky roared.
to make me  awake.
No cattle found around.
Knowing the time of return
They had gone.

Following their hoof marks
as signatures put over
the muddy road
of time I speeded up
reading the signatures
flash over the sky
of an arriving rain.
Vaiyavan

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