http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/ Nature Poetry Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:05:01 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2006. Poetry Writing Arts http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/archive/28.html Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:59:34 GMT The trouble with these old, gnarled trees Still standing upright in the earth and air Is that they want to remain homes To the many homeless evening-birds Which incessantly chatter to slum kids Pouring out of their improvised shanties With tin roofs glistening in the sun Through old cycle tires and tarpaulin tatters Kept defensively in place against the wind By a motley collection of gray stones. They do not realize even in their death That our gardener’s three-stone stove Is waiting impatiently for their dry logs To arrive in its enormous, crackling fire. http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/comments?id=28 http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/archive/27.html Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:07:09 GMT On the Babughat the Ganges wore A splendid necklace studded with images Of inverted candle lights under the bridge The flickering flame of the lantern in the boat Refused to dance to the wind’s death-tune Near the jetty stood a dark monstrosity Brooding over unillumined loneliness Its cavernous stomach ached with The darkest secrets of the high seas . http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/comments?id=27 http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/archive/26.html Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:36:07 GMT My birds are twittering constantly; Their colors refuse to climb the sky Amid scattered sounds and sunrays. My mornings are many-hued skies Rising from treetops of birdsongs. http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/comments?id=26 http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/archive/25.html Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:11:57 GMT It is this luminosity, my dear, Of the gilded leaves in the sun The magic eye promptly catches A silver flicker, a yellow transience. A palliative to the chemical pain In variously knotted entrails and The reddish tinge in eye-whites. http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/comments?id=25 http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/archive/24.html Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:10:32 GMT In my nights of waiting For sunrise and flowers I look pain in the face. I wake up bleary-eyed Trying to catch beach suns Before they turn white. http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/comments?id=24 http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/archive/23.html Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:07:39 GMT The flowers spoke nothing Waiting for indifferent lovers. Their colours touched the sky. Their existence was close-ended Being closely trapped in the sun. Drinking moon-beams, they want to be As birds in the higher zones do. http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/comments?id=23 http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/archive/22.html Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:06:32 GMT The rock is being cut Slowly disintegrating Real existence, ours. The drill pierces time. The sky becomes bluer With nothing between The blue sky and us. http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/comments?id=22 http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/archive/21.html Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:05:29 GMT In the recent monsoon Our rivers felt as if The mountains had bled From fresh wounds Their flesh has gone, Across the green seas, To the distant Chinaman To fill out his bones. http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/comments?id=21 http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/archive/20.html Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:04:37 GMT Things remained unsaid Beauty had cried in torrents Of words bereft of thought Till the blazing March sun Beat history's scraggly stones A midsummer celebration Ensued with images galore Beauty returned from the hills. http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/comments?id=20 http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/archive/19.html Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:01:26 GMT The banyan's shadows played With yesterday’s leaves The words were leaves My shadows played with. http://ajraosnaturepoetry.blogdrive.com/comments?id=19