Poems  
The Forest
by TA Ramesh

A dense forest I found I was stranded at night;
Blind in darkness I probed a way out at first.
An impossible effort I tried using my eyes and mind;
The progress if any I made I understood was equal to nil!

A light music, pastoral in nature, I heard at last;
The music moved me to follow in line where it led to;
It was a golden great to enjoy moving with it at that hour,
When and where there was no beginning and no end!

Very soon the smell of flowers too I sensed very much;
The pleasant perfumed atmosphere elated me to a joyful state;
Walking or floating I knew not in that half wakeful state;
Yet in slow motion I floated on the waves of fragrant music!

Slowly I entered, I knew, into the sparkling Gold mines there!
Charged with power and wisdom I emerged out with bright eyes
To see eminently in what forest I had been at that hour of the night!
Was it a dream or a reality? I couldn’t understand then there!

All the mysteries I found unraveling itself like in a dream!
With the powerful light of my eyes I saw everything before me;
Animals, men and angels lived there as good friends;
Majestic men lived on the green land with blue rivers.

They lived in diamond caves, golden huts and buxom boats!
And carved statues, drew paintings and played moving music!
The best walked on fire, air and water as a feat of achievement!
They entertained in dance and revelries accompanied by music.

Music, the deer, the peacocks and the swans welcomed there;
Lovely and colorful birds sang sweet songs as to its tunes,
For which all the animals guarded them against all disturbances
And silently loved listening to the music in great ecstasy ……!

Suddenly there ended the glow of my eyes to see anything further!
Once more moved I in darkness on the path of music to the mines
To recapture the power of my inward eye to see the other parts
And go out of the forest to inform the world what wonders I saw!   

November 19, 2006

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