Friday, January 20, 2012

Beauties ,Doubts, and little boys


My blogger friend , Bikramjit Singh Mann, posted this amazing picture of the forest area behind the Sukhna lake near Chandigarh, in the state of Punjab, in North India, as part of the Wordless Wednesdays Series.

There is an eerie stillness about this scene. The bare trees, the tangled branches and statuesque tree frames, the clear amazingly reflective water, and the sky watching it all.

While some may hasten to photograph this, it occurred to me that somewhere, someplace, there was a little boy, just itching throw a disturbing pebble into the water, and watch in glee, as the perfect images helplessly mesh into each other.


(photo by Bikramjit Singh Mann)
Bare
anorexic model types,
posing with raised limbs,
or
firm, shapely maidens,
in intense effort
to project an “S”
or
some
older maa’ms
intricately ravaged by
the passing of time,
and
inter-offspring fights,
all
freshening up
in an effort to be
what they are not,
as they look down
with the sky,
at
the fluid mirror below.

A little boy,
throwing
a small pebble of a doubt,
and
the images dissolve
beauties into beasts,
and the sky,
with real ordinary features,
has the last laugh……

7 comments:

  1. OH my god , now this is really one of those moments, I always use to see you writing such beautiful poems on other blogger friends pictures and FINALLY you found this one worth putting ..

    THANK YOU SO MUCH..

    and yeah that little boy is me .. I had doubts :)
    and the nature always has the last laugh because look at what we are doing to it .. the bad human being ...
    Bikram's

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    1. Bikram, the poem happened because the photo was so fantastic ! And thank you for the heartfelt appreciation !

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  2. You do such a wonderful job with matching poems to photography. I can remember my three sons, oblivious of the beauty at Lake Tahoe in the US Sierras, shrieking and breaking the peaceful stillness and never pausing to see all the beauty before them.

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    1. Carmen, thank you so much ! And I guess boys will be boys :-)

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  3. Your thoughts go in an entirely different way when you see a picture, Suranga! Very apt words for the picture!

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    1. Thank you ! Don't know why the thoughts happen the way they do, but one has to be honest about how one feels !

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  4. A fitting poem for a beautiful artistic photo. I love the scene, it has soothing, calming effects on me...

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