The most predictable thing about life is probably its unpredictability, at every bend, at every turning new challenges, new obstacles, new surprises greet us; a new world awaits us; a chance happening can change the whole course of our lives...Serendipity
A Bird's Saga
Every flower smelt so sweetAir was fresh with morning dew,
Every sunrise brought a hope,
With sunshine spirits rose,
Every day had its innocent charm,
An Arion*, he sang the sweetest of songs,
The moon shown with a soothing light,
The firmament with stars was bright,
Aeolus* was its God and Lord,
Ariel* was its friend,
Life was carefree
Exciting, full of promise...
Then came a change,
The bird was caged:
There was suffocation,
There was torture,
There was burning,
There was scorching,
The sun was too hot,
The moon too pale,
The days forlorn,
The nights too stale...
But one day it broke the chains,
The bird was free,
The cage empty...
It flew and flew,
Till it was weary,
The wound did hurt,
The blood did trickle,
It flew and flew,
It gave up not...
Slowly the wound did heal
The spring came back,
It found new strength
There was peace & quiet again,
Quiet, but very quiet,
Lulling it to sleep...
Suddenly a melody,
A sweet disturbing melody:
The sun became bright again,
Star shone in its eyes
Raindrops kissed its cheeks,
Moonlit night played a nocturne sweet,
A storm broke forth,
Passion filled days and nights...
The bird soared high,
Very high,
Alas! Too high,
An Icarus* in the sky,
Too close to the Sun,
The swan song was sung...
Now it lies at the bottom of Aegean Sea,
Waiting for the next Tsunami*...
An Aeneas*, hoping for resurrection!
Author: Zoya Zaidi
Aligarh (UP), India
Copyright©: Zoya Zaidi
*Arion: (7thc BC) legendary Greek poet and musician of Lesbos who had mastered the dithyramb; A legend has it that when sailors on a ship tried to drown him he was saved by a Dolphin who had been attracted to his singing.
* Aeolus: the Greek legendary God of the winds.
* Ariel: the carefree, airy spirit of Shakespeare's play Tempest
* Icarus: son of Deadalus, who in escaping from the prison of Crete, on artificial wings made by his father, flew too close to the sun so that the wax that fastened his wings melted and he fell into the Aegean Sea.
* Tsunami, the giant wave, which swept away more then 250,000 in Banda Aceh, Philippines, East coast of India, and SriLanka, also unearthed in its wake many temples and other ancient monuments, which had long ago drowned under the sea: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4136781.stm
* Aeneas: The wandering hero of Virgil's Aeneid (a Latin hexameter epic poem), after years of wanderings, went to the underworld to meet his dead father Anchises; came out to lead the Romans and become the founder of the Roman Estate.
Poetry by Zoya Zaidi
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Written on 2006-02-17 at 12:23
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