Bristling with grizzly thorns, a weird
shape I saw
A monstrous pale dry figure with rugged
looks
A crooked creature bred in solitude;
With prickly, parched skin without a
touch of green
Ev’n goats shudder to smell and fear to go
near
A sordid work
of art in dry burning sands
A distorted
work of some crazy soul
Catching
attention by its cranky view
Like a lonely
mansion with broken spires
In Tartarian deserts where none resides
Where howling
winds wail with a ghostly strain
Where hissing reptiles crawl through narrow fissures;
Whence this ghastly dry stinging specimen?
From driest Libyan soil or Egyptian clime?
Or sandy seas of Arabian deserts
Where scanty rain drops turn to instant
air ?
This freakish work of art in the living
room
Mirrored the owner’s train of thoughts
Self-exiled,
with sordid struggling thoughts
A modern mind mechanized to the deepest
core
Confined in his own palatial mansion
Like a desert plant far away from flowing
crowd.
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Grizzly =Covered with grey scales
Cranky = strange
Tartary =A vast desert area in central Asia
Libyan desert=part of Sahara desert
Egyptian clime = western part of Sahara desert
Freakish work = peculiar
Sordid = ignoble or of low quality
Mechanized = alienated without feelings
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23rd January, 2019 Somaseshu Gutala
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