LOVE & LANDSCAPE


TWO POEMS

EVEN THEN
[Dr. Mahendra Bhatnagar]

As an unexpected guest
you came to mind
suddenly!

I know –
I was't preprepared for your
overwhelming welcoming
with garland of buds,
and affixing festoons on every door,
eager every moment
awaiting!

You, the dear one,
a visitor!
Say –
have I not been
a receptionist of yours
as ever?

I'm overjoyed,
appear
on my unsophisticated heart-land
simple one!
Ominous moment,
am thankful, grateful!

But,
Why this coyness?

Stay a while
let me feel
these extremely invaluable moments!

I know –
you're a roving,
a guest
how could you be tethered
to the tender trap
of human love?

Eh! even then ...
a little ... supplication
even then!

" "


FROM THE VALLEY OF 'PATALPANI'1

[Dr. Mahendra Bhatnagar]


I,
a wanderer strayed
have come to seek solace
in your lap!

To come down insitinctively
on open breast-slopes,
support with
your arms, strong as hills!
Give the cool shade
of ungauged deep!

Give pleasant touch
of refreshing current of water
to my burning lips,
grant joy
to the mind
silent for ages,
give a happy sense
of love-confluence to the unsatiated soul!
In this solitude
with murmur melodic music
give the rainbow abode of dream!
O deep dale!
I've come —
your life
an everlasting companion!

Let me hold
for a few moments
the helpless emotional tide
with your innocent flow!
I may,
or may not come this side
in this birth again!

Have I,
a wanderer
not even this little right
to leave behind
a few prints ...
signifying
love?

" "
1 A resort in Malwa (M.P.) INDIA













Poetry by M. Bhatnagar
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Written on 2007-08-23 at 05:51

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Amanda K
well-penned, keep it up.
2007-08-23