The One That Hanging Down... Poem by Kesav Venkat Easwaran

The One That Hanging Down...



Up on the jungle legend tree
The witty evil spirit* lived
Upside down teasing easy‘n free
Hung all day long it remained!

He the jungle bound king*
Had there no alternative
But for free it or bring down it
What of questions irrespective
It may ask answer them he must
True or false crooked they be
That should never be his jest!

The king was not to let it hang
Head down on the tree all day long;
The poor king had a full day’s job
Each day pulling the joker down
And trying to answer its quests
And carry it on his shoulders
Until it opted back to flee
On his wise replies solidly!

Life bound souls we have options nil
Other than to face those wits evil
Those questions unanswerable
The joker in our mind asks
Win or lose carry him remain
Through out our life we in vain!


*King Vikram Aditya during his jungle stay confronts the tree hanging witty evil spirit Vethal that tells him stories and puts testing questions… The wise king out wits the spirit and befriends it to augment his power and royal virtues… Ancient Indian legends…

29 04 08

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Subbaraman N V 30 April 2008

What a lovely message to the mankind! Great! Congrats!

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Rema Prasanna 03 May 2008

One old legend turned into a beautiful poem, vikram and vethal re emerged through the lines like a visual. Well composed

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Richa Dhodi 11 May 2008

Sir your poem is awesome to read and it recount the old wondeful characters - Vikram and vethal... and your prose done on them is admirable.... keep going sir.. ric..

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The poem based on the old legend Vikram and vethal is really beautiful--I could enjoy the poem and the philosophy there in. Congrats Mr Easwaran.

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Tsira Goge 06 June 2008

Hi Kesav, Witty legend - a verse, good work, ....10.... thanks for your fine the comment. best wishes, Tsira

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Antonio Liao 02 April 2009

its what we see in our very midst is what we fear....the return will make us reborn, review, rethink and puzzle what is next...your poem is an openner to the world... on what will be our next steps for the next generation... thank you God bless a 10

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Sarvesh Kulkarni 17 December 2008

wow....knew abt the legend from childhood....but never thought of the analogy... thank you very much sir......very true indeed.

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Vaibhav Pandey 17 December 2008

great as always sir 10+++++++++

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Min Sia 17 December 2008

Very well narrated..and great imagery..a legend that had turned into a great poem bringing out a moral conception.. Thanks for sharing this wonderful poem...

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Samanyan Lakshminarayanan 17 December 2008

that was a nice poem brought back the comic picture to mind read before ages and the end moral brings out the fact that we are stuck=10

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