A Giant Rock Poem by Praveen Kumar In Shobha Priya

A giant rock, atop a hill,
Arrogantly rises to infinite sky:
Stands upright in lonely splendour
In dazzling backdropp of the lighted heaven,
Like a battle-scarred victorious knight
Towering high on humbled battlefield
In imperious frown of heat and stroms
That touch and shake far lower mortals.


A pack of strength in divine expanse
In silent concert to the dizzy height,
Stands in stolid frown of the dwarf world
In defiance of the shocks of time
While all senses in focus on the immortal plane
Of stoic calm and immobile peace
In striking contrast to the cycles of change
That obtemper 'neath its high stature.


Distance does not hide, nor the nebulous cloud,
Pleasures do not touch, nor pains or praise;
Birth and death, it absorbs in self
And spreads calm confidence to the surrounding world;
The selfless strength that crowns the world
In gay abandon of liberated soul,
Builds a bridge beyond the earth's crust
From where descends sublime godliness.