IMMACULATELY

 

IMMACULATELY

 

 

Eloquently fingers shaping life,

Revolving wooden wheel below,

Rotating wet clay slowly at the top,

Amazes fingers work surprisingly,

It was making clay pottery eons ago,

Ancient civilization certifies discovery,

Clay, porcelain, bronze, and silver,

The design for millennia continues,

Society has forgotten its intricacies,

Still, the potter failed to extinction totally,

Potter wheel is a village sight beautiful,

Human progressed, I was thinking,

Unstoppable spirit achieved many things,

Wonderful creations handcrafted,

With iron machines, threads, cloth,

With fibers carpets design noticeable,

Gold, silver, platinum, and diamond,

The crafty fingers create filigree, jewelry,

People perform for generations to get rich,

Compare village iron smith weaver,

The community still is found assuring,

Poor thatched cottages less changed,

Charcoals are burning, listen to sounds,

The hammer sharpens molten iron,

The lifeline keeps village activity alive,

Poor, bare chest, loincloth, rustic,

I learned at college, educated, skilled,

These men, women less educated,

Never have gone to college to learn,

Inheritance, my country may look to,

Century-old art and craft is valuable,

It carries inherent ancient culture,

Should not be lost at any cost supported,

Stay in these communities with peasants,

Their products are still prized by females,

Clay mug for tea stalls at rail platform,

Visible when plastic is prohibited,

Provides livelihood for potters, prosper,

Rural industry takes shape for youth,

A vast range of pottery items need homes,

Replacing plastic, iron, steel utensils,

Water coolers, clay idols perennial,

Potter mint a small business nicely,

Water cooler natural method cheap,

People buy in hot summer for home,

Idol-making shows potters' artisan fingers,

Goddess idol dressed with ornaments,

Colors natural ingredients prepared,

Paper, jute, aluminum foil crown,

Decorations created by an artistic mind,

Potter's life is linked to festival seasons,

Diwali time clay lamps million are sold,

Temples, thousands oil lit lamps lighted,

The potter wheel rotates, forming lamps,

Family do good business on Diwali,

 On occasion, homes in the street are bright,

Unique sight spreads happiness, joy,

I was thinking about immersive fingers,

Skill in the blood acquires ideally,

These fingers never read books studied,

Nondescript rural men do muddy work,

Inconspicuous their social presence,

Only for an ultra-modern person educated,

Vanity acquired from books digress,

Immaculately shines Indian potteries,

Questions civilization to rethink,

Look back to the past glorious shining,

Finger with clay creates an intricate product,

Immaculately arranged at the street, sold!

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra