Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
The steeple shrieked
bells of the temple shivered and shook
as the frightened gods sped out
chant and metamorphic mantra
froze in the gullet
of the shuddering brahmin
staring in lidless awe
in the deserted sanctuary
a roaring wind fiendish and fell
battered him into his private hell
he shut his eyes in holy terror
only to confront visions of horror:
the country green caught in an epileptic fit
looking for leaves to hide its naked shame
a bathing woman broad in the hips
bursting into mind a bloated corpse
a fly entering her wide-open mouth
probing a sore on the swollen lips
glistening rain-drops dripping down her breasts
her deep navel reflecting his dazed face
twisted steel and uprooted tree
birdless branches looking forlorn
sharpening their lean and hungry beaks.
Witness and victim to elemental sabotage
blazing wrath of the ‘unchilding, unfathering’ deep
would he succeed in his search of the gods?
would he lure them into their proper places?