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....

Sand-Dunes

Dr. R. R. Menon

SAND-DUNEStc "SAND-DUNES"

I am no star, nor want to be one,
stabilised by its celestial stare.
This green earth which my
species need to live by,
has hardly any use for stars
or star-struck pretenders
not brilliant enough to give light.
Politics are damned with pole-stars
engaged in secret fratricidal wars,
the surviving big star, a Black Hole.
Lying on my cushioned couch
in the cozy, wind-wafted room,
I see the lurking luminous ones
fall one by one on the downs
like meteoric ash, and as
insubstantial as an eye-wash.
Each had aspired to be a sun
by courting the devil, the darkest one.
The weather outside so bellicose
and varying with every pose;
neither knows nor allows any repose. 
It’s pinned by the glass shield
of my closed and cautious window-panes
Lightning lightens the load
of darkness on the long road
that winds blowing up and down
in its mad search for eves and dawns,
confuse until the blighted night
decodes the music in the pebbles
rounded and chiseled by rolling waves
I wistfully wait till democracy prunes
All sound mounts into sand dunes.
It’s indeed a long, listless sojourn.

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