RELICS
Immersive
devotees praying,
Divine
mother Durga worshipped,
Picture
perfect Indian woman,
Extraordinary
beauty portrayed,
Fare
complexions, long nose,
Red
lips and black eyebrows,
Dark
eyes, third on the forehead,
Ornaments
painted golden,
The
crown on the head, ten hands,
Hands
wearing weapons to fight,
Indian
silk saree design fabric,
Feet
small, one on a lion standing,
Another
foot on a demon's chest,
A
trident pierced oh his chest, killed,
Portraying
an Indian village woman,
A
fair-complexioned young woman,
Saree
covered her head face white,
Dark
hairs in the back, up to knees,
The
bracelets, anklets, and earrings,
A
necklace, nose ring in chains,
Glass
bangles in color sparkling,
Ornaments,
gold, silver or bronze,
But
surprised as Mother is wearing,
Dark,
loosen hair, wavy behind her back,
Starkly
matches with Mother,
Neither
ten hands nor crown golden,
Works
hard in grain fields day long,
Maintains
clay house thatched roof,
Polished
cow dung floor walls clean,
Decorated
with chalk white and red,
The
art can fascinate the artist's heart,
Cows
in the back yard in a shed,
A
balcony with an earthen oven,
Her
life deals with earthen pots,
Cooks
rice, keep drinking water,
In
summer, ponds, village-well, dries,
She
walks for miles to collect water,
The
river provides water as her source,
Drew
picture thus a village woman,
Divine
Mother, how similar to her,
Children
from her village prosper,
Today's
baby tomorrow, youth,
Thousand
years of generation tilling,
Village
farmers feed the country,
Strong
presence impresses females,
Wonderfully
beautiful like a wildflower,
Relics
of an ancient tradition of females,
Service
equivalent to ten hands,
Instead
of weapons, domestic tools,
Accomplishes
victory kills poverty,
Poverty
is as if the demon is killed,
Overwhelmed
me the comparison,
The
wrinkled face of aged women,
Still
covered her head with a saree,
Revered
as mother or grandmother,
Children
take care of her duly respect,
Her
advice is obeyed by her family,
Respect
her much like a divine mother,
I
was standing before the idol of Mother,
Owed
to the face of an Indian woman,
She
was a reality in cities, villages,
Hindu
customs still live in homes,
Hindus
worship Mother, believe,
She
is the procreator, signs prosperity,
Matches
with Hindu family females,
Worship
senior women, their advice,
Relics
to Hindu culture are perfectly seen,
Unchanged
little through millennia.
@
Bijayananda Mishra
