Tuesday, January 22, 2019

A Thorny Bush (Blank Verse)


     
                         



             
                    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.

                                   ___________________________


                              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

                                ********************************

                  23rd January, 2019                               Somaseshu Gutala



            

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