Five Poems Poem by Bipin Patsani

1. THE EARTH

Unfold like an epic
Of agony and achievements
The Earth is where we stand
When we descend.
No place for dirty delight
Nor of perpetual pain,
The earth is where we learn
Dignity out of despair.


2. THE WIND

I see no difference in you
And a gust of spring wind.
I feel alive in your touch
And in your thrilling embrace
I feel fulfilled,
Ripe and vibrant
With the green suffusion
Of your love, pregnant
With buds and blooms smiling within.
In me they play and relax,
In me they quarrel,
But when I stretch my eager hand
To catch their gleam sweetness
They hide, they hide somewhere chiding.
I look for them every nook and corner
But mysterious as they are,
They remain a mystery to me.

3. WATER

In the unseen centre
You strike the water, my love,
And the soft rapturous ripples
Come laughing
Like sweet little infants
To drench by their wet feet
My thirsty white bosom
That spreads to the river-bank.
Sometimes I think
You are the centre
And I seek for you
At the centre of
Every drop and droplet
That comes to me.

4. WOODS

Lively with green youthful foliage
And a history eternally present
Whole in itself in unity of all things,
The woods foster some primordial premises
With a spell in them, an anxious call
To their wilderness that covers time and space.
Looking into their depth it seems as if
I am looking into your eyes, looking into myself
With all the light and shade reigning there,
The warm adoring awareness we inhale,
The freshness and beauty
Of the consciousness the woods breathe out,
The consciousness of the root and the shoot
While, like trunks, we hang about
Feeling cut off and alienated in the night
And contented all the more in the morn
To be joining the exhausting emptiness
Of the earth and its erotic soil smell
With the blue nothingness of space
Where there is nothing but freedom and joy
Smothering the ecstatic openness of the sky,
At one with nature, unbound and binding still
To the thrill of its moving wheel.

5. FIRE

You are the fire in me, my feeling,
My faithful companion
And spark of imagination!
When the creative urge upsurge
Your flames close around
Like arms where I crystallize;
For you are the beginning and the end,
And the cause of all beginnings,
The repose and eruption of the embryo
Resting in chaos and creation,
The agony of death, labour pain,
And in the void of darkness and doom
You are dawn, the simmering infernal fire
Of the hot summer afternoon being just
A ritual rhapsody of the warmth of the divine
Which comes in the music of rain.