Flowers And Buds By Maha Nand Sharma Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Flowers And Buds, which appeared in 1984 from Meerut,
With a foreword by Prof. C.Brian Cox of Manchester Univ.,
Is indeed a noble and pious attempt
On behalf of Maha Nand Sharma
As poetizing the myth of Shiva,
One from the Shiva cycle of stories,
Shiva and Sati,
Sati going to her father’s home uninvited
As for her husband
Being a sadhu and a fakira,
A dweller on mount Kailash,
An aghora sahdaka.

As for the insult she could not bear with,
Sati jumps into the sacred fires
And ends her life,
A scene so pathetic and disturbing,
So pitiful and poignant,
So painful and unbearable to view it
With the naked eyes,
Which the heart takes to not,
Sati marking the prestige of her husband
Being at stake finishes her life.

Actually Flowers contains the long poem
While the second Buds is inclusive of stray poems
Included in it,
Prologue, Fire and Light (Summary) , Fire and Light (Poem) ,
Shock and Peace (Summary) , Shock and Peace (Poem) ,
Dawn (Summary) , Dawn (Poem) ,
Night and Morning (Summary) , Night and Morning (Poem) ,
The Test Divine (Summary) , The Test Divine (Poem) ,
Each part preceded by a short summary.

The poem seems to have been drawn from
Hindu mythology and folklore interpretation
And the texts Sanskritic
Is a handiwork of addition and alteration,
Personal feeling and emotional
Tagged with and adding to
Permeate and dispense with
The topic in hand, the mythical text under deliberation.

King Daksha, the father of Sati, does not want
To call and invite his daughter
As if he invites, Shiva will naturally be extended to
And so as a result of that, the event reaches the climax
And the Lord in remorse destroys the Yajna
And unable to uphold in agony,
Moves about taking the body of the Mother Divine.

Again, when Parvati, the daughter of Himalaya, proposes to marry,
Her father dissuades from her,
But finally succumbs to her will and request
And gives the nod for,
But when the Saintly and Simple Lord comes in,
His attendants and attributes too come in to attend the party
And all aghast to see the strange bridegroom party
For whom the gems and diamonds mean they not at all.