Posting a poem which has always been close to my heart. Though written few years back; i still consider to be one of my best for its allegorical form and the way plot delveloped. Hope you’d enjoy it
On a deserted Island
One, where no one would flock
There stood a lonely
Rugged and ugly rock
Tress grew all around But all pale and withered Apathy of nature was All that it mirrored
Waves attacked the rock
Like fort it endured all
Relentlessly they tried
Could never make him fall
Never a scratch was found On that gigantic rock The hard lonely and ugly Where no bird would flock
But one day a bird dared
To enter forbidden land
And her twitters brought
To boredom, an abrupt end
Flowers started blooming Grass was green again Fresh breeze started blowing And there were the rains
With every tree and flower
Bird used to play
Even on that rock
For long she’d stay
What the waves couldn’t do Was done by the rain The rock was soft and muddy The bird made it her den
On that she hopped around
The rock was thus marked
With claws and beaks
Where she had walked
So it was the spring Days of joy and adventure For eternity it’ll be there Was the thought at that juncture
For every success around
Failure is not difficult to find
And through the Sunshine
Darkness lurks behind
One day when island woke Bird was nowhere to be found Empty was the sky So was the ground
Sad as they were
They went to the rock
One where the bird
Lived, hopped and walked
The rock stood there With wild arrogance Its sadness beneath harshness Everybody could sense
They left him all alone
And he got hard again
But with marks and bites
And an eternal pain
It rained again today But no gentle breeze blew A storm knocked of all trees Over which the bird flew
The rock is still there
Thwarting relentless waves
Neither he gives up
Nor in, he caves
Marks are visible But to experienced eyes A void remains inside With a reverberating voice
Sometimes a moment spent
Worth spending lifetime
Through darkness of loneliness
It shows you SUNSHINE.
The words can be felt.
and I got a reply for the question that arose in my mind when I just read your previous post “first”.
I don’t know may be I connected them coincidently because I read them today itself😁
So, what if first cannot last
Sometimes a moment spent
Is worth spending life time.
It was really a happy reading for me.
Thanks Prankies
Happy reading readers!
Yours loving warrior
NAINA
Beautiful. I loved your story telling.
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