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A New Place Beyond
I stare at the sprawling expanse that reveals shallowness of existence like a mud-puddle created by horse's hoof - depth directly proportional to the wisdom gained. Through centuries of upheaval, in which ego is flogged like a wild horse drunk with pride, I look beyond the expanse where depth and wisdom cohabit in a new design: a 'stable' - stable of Pegasus Divine. * Divided Square A little bird in the window perched on one of the bars that divide the frame into many parallels. A bit suspicious and intrigued, it hops between the lower bar and the higher and gauges the distance and judges the efforts that would be necessary to transcend the square. -- c s shah * Next | Previous |
The Naughty Sparrow
The house sparrow delicately adjusted her pointed shoes on the frame of the mirror and dotted her image inside - tut, tut; tut, tut... Our son - just past infancy - turned his ears towards the sound, eyes, neck, and head rotated with effort. The sparrow played with the child, and the child acknowledged the friendship. Till that day - before the son was born, to be precise -< I used to admire the sparrow for her benign foolishness... naive I would call her. The question now daunts me: Last year, year before year, for whom the sparrow dotted the mirror? And my wife laughs at the wrinkles over my forehead: You are too intelligent dear to understand the obvious - before our child was born you were the child for the sparrow! -- all poems by c s shah
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