‘THE RIVER SHORE’

 ‘THE RIVER SHORE’

On a warm December noon,

Near a small zoo of Baboon;

Sitting idle like loon, 

Staring around, eating a prune.


After a breakfast convene,

Was just relaxing near a river;

Understanding that the nature was not mean,

The way waves deliver.


Trying to play with delight,

And taking shore rocks out of sight;

I was slivering the sand to roughly draw,

River, erasing it all with its wet claw.


On an enormous rock I was looking with awe,

After a while, over it sits a jacksaw;

Having a glance in a second all around,

Then flies and sits on a higher ground.

I wonder how free they are,

Then too, they have tasted all life’s sweet & sour.

Just thinking about all this,

Mother calls!


As I was sprint walking, my sorrow was popping and leaking out of my shoes,

Thinking of the one more precious chance to meet, praise and appreciate nature that I have lost.

- Vaani Dixit
               9th F




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