Sunday, December 25, 2011

O Himalayas




You stand like a huge elephant,
a curtain on the big black hole.
Shamrock green, tinges of sunglow
here and there; you are the brahma
or the vishnu i worship,
the monocrat that would give us all
and forsaken, we submit.
The bushes now smell rain, like the grasses;
as you cover in darkening tones.
The skies sneak in, flood in thy
caravans of light, and air; windwhirl all around, overwhelm the vales.
You speak my past, from the time this world broke fever.
You end my walk, you fill me gay.
O Himalayas.

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     Mayhem! while it leaf falls
     Severed, and woe-be-gone spells cloud over,
     Alone mother land, her saddling breasts;
     Like an ice flake sails earthward
     Or sink them cellophane drops.
     Hush-Hush - not ailing 'the failing leaf'
     Free; dead airs boil my ears.
     Mayhem! The fires laid warm.
     Home.