Posted for Poets United Wonder Wednesday #13 Postcards:
Tiger, or no Tiger,
it is
exquisite!
The haunting
beauty of
lush green
mangroves,
With a strong smell
of forest,
Rhythmic flights
of
Falcons and herons,
Sea of green
waves
Flowing,
slipping… relentlessly
Untouched by
the wind
Eerie
jungle-sounds,
Scarlet mud-banks
covered
with swarming red
crabs,
Yes… all seems possible
In Bay of
Bengal
A space…so
crowded with life,
yet so
dangerous at its roots…
The unsleeping
water
Scurrying into ordained
sea
Display its
lust, its impatience…
The surface blushes and blinks
The surface blushes and blinks
with mobility of the Sun
Sitting on a
deck of a country boat
With fog
frothing around the bow, even the
Soft lapping
oar sounds prying;
Mind gets lost in
the depths of channels
Thickened with
legends of death!
The water tangled
in mangrove limbs
Ebbs
and flows langurously; it
carries the wind
and the rain
The powers of the
quiet nights
reveal the magnanimous universe
hidden under its fringes;
And darkness lingers...
And darkness lingers...
Naked
Defenseless
yet, shimmering in ecstasy.
In the perilous silence, I see
and hear every object with clarity
'Forest murmurs
rise in the darkness
The roars of
the hungry tigers
The river
lapping at the hull
Dolphins circling
in tandem
The wind
howling through the mangroves
Mosquitoes, flies scampering
up and down
Massive jaws of
the crocodile
A lunar rainbow in the sky.....'
All things take shape effortlessly; and
the place gets crowded with life
the place gets crowded with life
Silence heaves a sigh of relief....
Oh, the excitement is still present
The exact flavors of the Tide Country.
Answer is Sundarbans National Park--
densely covered by mangrove forests and biggest reserves for the Bengal Tiger....
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