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
