When the harvest was over,
grain and chaff separated,
the birds congregated
around the barn had flown to lands distant,
the grains even from the last of stalks
were sun dried and filled in granaries,
it's time to set aside all other things
to take up the one passionate thing.
From it's true inspiration, beauty's intoxication,
poetry begins it's wild run, no holds barred,
the other lives of him as a man about town,
lover, son, father , partner of a woman,
a singer of the soul's wanderings,
a seeker of truth, at last takes an ecstatic turn.
The many lives he lead, the rough riding days
on the road, seep in to the words he collect,
now writing poetry becomes more than a game
of chess, an equation that balances life and death
that allows a peep, in to the abode of immortals.
poet looks at life, still a changing apparition,
mysterious one with an enigmatic expression
on it's face and ask,"Show me all you can,
it would make my day, what else one can demand?"