Alankar(Decor)-223 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Friendly Intruder(Jagati)

Jagati (the god of nature and animals) , in Hindu tradition Jagati is associated
with the 4th horse harnessed to the golden chariot of the sun.
This Vedicverse is a stanzaic form with a lot of room to maneuver.
The defining features of the Jagati are:
stanzaic,4 lines or padas
syllabic, lines of 12 syllables each.
metric. The heavy-light or guru-laghu pattern of the lines is language specific and
probably impossible to duplicate in English.
But for the purist you can try by converting heavy-light to Long-short vowel sounds.

Friendly Intruder

Craving small girl waiting.Mango ripening golden
Swift a parrot comes and pecks the mango golden
Small girl crying pleading mango tree for justice
High sun peers to say 'but season's pals are parrots'