Glass Tree Poem by Konalli Rajeev Naik

Mukundan the Malayalam author
Told me the story of glass tree;
The emperor travelling in
Palanquin aircraft
Ordered the foreign mason
To fell the Champak tree
For carving a glass tree.
The falling tree roared like a lion.
Alas! the nests were crashed
With the nestlings broken hearted.
Mother birds returned to feed,
Flew around the fallen tree lamenting.
But the foreign mason
Hurled the pieces of rock
At the birds to force them out.

And then the glass tree stood still
Invading the hearts of the traveller.
The wood hanged around it
Capricious plants bowed.
Urchins grabbed the gleaming
Glass pieces to play
But the bleeding cracks in fingers
Made them moan.
The glass tree was
As proud as
The gleaming palanquin king.


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