Beauty Unadorned

A poem based on a scene where an Emperor sees one of Nature's glimpses...

The walls, glimmered with jade and precious stone mounds,
The Red Fort was a latticed beauty of several pounds;
The charismatic Jamuna ran close to the Fort’s Heart,
The astounding scene moved the Emperor, on the rampart.

A Moment to cherish, treasure, preserve was the prolific scene,
To have the pavilion on its side, the Emperor was keen ‘o keen;
Preserving the fleeting glimpse of Eternity, thanking the Lords,
“If there be a Heaven on Earth, it is this, it is this”, were his words.

Like a sweet secret and whistling –

thrush emerging from a dark forest,
Call’em raindrops on a sunflower, first rain fragrance,

they’re Gorgeous;
Dew drops on lustrous grass, child’s grin,

compensating for Heaven,
On Nature’s miraculous lessons, shafts of sunlight,

Man can revel.

With discouragement and flagging spirits,

He stood along the seafront,
Gentle breeze and great crashing waves

provided the mood’s preferment;
Whenever he felt alone and alone, losing

his composure to depression,
The captured coalescence of sky, earth n sea,

refined, revived his emotion.

Time, Place and Eternity, the elements

came to provide the touching delight,
The stillness of movement, the chatter of timeless silence,

cheers the soul’s plight;
The Spirit of Happiness, the unseen

morals of Nature, comes round and round,
A sole glimpse was phenomenal pleasure,

so imagine the entire world Beyond………..