Elemental Life Poem by Vidya Pandarinath

The cool, pleasant , tickling friendly breeze
Caresses and lifts the hair to tease,
Bringing forth a kind of pompous joy
Of breathing freshness in the gale ploy ;
Stale things look comely and new
Tall and short, light and shadow skew
Truth is what the kind tends to form
And beauty is but its abstract norm !


The gusty storm and the blizzard cold,
Bring down things hard, strong and bold
Giant trees uprooted , mansions neat and fast
Are carried away and scattered aghast
Potent prowess and wildness in the act
Mock at human strength , patience and tact ;
Music of weird horror and insanity is at play
Blatant echoes pervade the ravage stay!


Yet is there manifest the latent fact -
That man should seek his need exact
And stop with the essence of life;
Puff is what he needs for breath- strife
Good and evil are resolved from limit
Boundless and excess are to purge and vomit
The essence of living lies but in order
Death and destruction beckon, across the border.