CLAY IDOL

 

CLAY IDOL

 

Mesmerizing moments of spring,

Arrives unknown thrill, happiness,

Grain fields meeting horizon golden,

Swaying in the gentle breeze in waves,

Resemble happiness in waves visible,

Intoxicated rural panorama festive,

Fragrant village road shopping malls,

Crowded here, busy on a buying spree,

Hypothetical Mother descends to earth,

Grain ripe at this time shine prosperity,

Worth watching fruit gardens ripen,

Birds mean nesting time chirping,

Dews in the morning, flowers bristle,

Nature witness period blossoms,

Nature colorful invites visitors,

Exciting trips, a vocational season,

Road, rail,  and air travel early booked,

Planning city life to escape in time,

Children got holidays school allowed,

College and university student tour,

Time for a picnic for teachers,  students,

Memories freeze by clicks of cameras,

Videos of sight, classmates do perform,

Parents buy new dresses for children,

Busy internet, phenomenal traffic,

Mindboggling concession mad buyers,

Business soars crop output forecasted,

Every street cross-section, a stall,

Mother Goddess being worshipped,

The decorations are competitive, lighting,

Music, orchestra, public ceremony,

Spray vermilions dancing wildly,

Human forgets all for a short time,

Mother has arrived, stay till Dussehra,

 The eighth day is treated as auspicious,

Dussehra Diwali festive happy times,

Time to visit parental home holiday,

All family members united once,

Time erases tension, worries, fear,

Urban life dominated troubles,

For days divine mother to be prayed,

Trust Hindu community graced,

Removes misery can breathe a while,

Yearlong people wait for Mother,

Bidding adieu equally pomp splendor,

Processions drum music louder,

Dancing all the way to the river or sea,

Immersion is a human duty, gratitude,

Belief Mother kills negativity, evil,

Establish love, care, prosperity, plenty,

Clay Goddess painted with colors,

Eyes are given by brush to worship,

Emersion time brush redo erase,

Mother lives from clay Goddess,

Anything raised from the ground merges,

Clay idol quickly dissipates in water,

How similar human life matching,

Raised from soil clay is human,

 A mother's womb takes nine months,

Reshapes Human limb from tissue,

Instills life, then given birth,

At shed of pottery molds clay,

Colors give limbs real ornate,

Myth instilled life worship,

Mother's home, not earth to return,

Return humans in time to an unknown,

Immersion is the same as cremation,

Not water but fire dissipate body,

Elements clay, water, fire, air merged,

Clay idol life worships Mother in clay.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra