Anasazi
Mesa castles in the sky
Where paintbrush blooms and eagles fly.
A people’s passage marked in stone;
Artifacts of flint and bone.
Cliffy cities – vanished host,
Sanctum haunt of hawk and ghost;
Beseech your mummies rise to tell
The secrets time has kept so well.
Shadow dwellers do you know
The coyote cries – the winds still blow
Like specter voices from the past?
Your dreams are gone – the relics last.
Ancient builders of the rock,
Do you leave your stones to mock?
Anasazi, could it be –
Your silent ruins … a prophesy.
The Canyon
Time’s aged and stony monument
Weathers grain by grain.
What the river’s fury left
Now melts in wind and rain.
A thousand shadow fingers reach
Beyond the grand abyss
To touch unconquered cliffs aglow
In sunset’s fading kiss
A nether world of dark and light
Transfixed in a vision sublime;
A window to the ages
Sealed in the bonds of time.
Behold the ancient rocks
Where primordial fossils trod
And sense the humbleness of man
Before the face of God.
Beutiful rhythm and rhyme schemes.
TREE TOPS
The Wind lives in the tree tops
Visiting plantains at invitation
Serrating waterfall in eddies
Fragmenting the sown
Into shifters of the unknown.
Into the solitude of the curves
Where expressions reside
Without end like eternity
Casting pebbles of fluidic imagery
In expanding circles of the universe.
There the verbs
And the nouns
Get bewildered
Failing to root out
Incomprehensibility
Lamentations in sounds
For some sovereign sensibility.
Demolished by beauty & happiness
A capability of gestures still to rise
A challenge for the attempters to try
An avenge on shaders of the paradise.
Durlabh Singh
Great poems!
I just read A Place Remembered by C. David Hay and had to look him up. It’s a beautiful poem that took me back to my childhood – a wonderful place.