Four Despatches, Including The One In The Prosaic Vein
Srinagar, Feb. 16 -- DESPATCH-I
WAILS OF THE VALE
(Transcription of a small poem,from the writer's kashmiri opera,Gatte Patte Gaash; Written in 1991: ADDRESSED TO ALL READERS)
Who
Axed our Chinars
And harpooned
The temple-ponds;
Blistered with bile
My liver asks
Who spilled blood?
On my verdure;
Boils abound
The Pine-wood breast
Yet the pain
Would subside if,
My hand could find
A place to sooth.
With dust of aeons
Settled on glass
And hands of clock
Forgotten somewhere;
Numberless islands
Have erupted
In the Jhelum;
As unfamiliar breath
Separates
The mates of age,
Beds freeze at night
As winter loneliness
Creeps;
Wrinkled countenance
And hands shiver;
Time has embarked
On the wild-run;
Flight of crows
Ra...
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