White Rock Poem by Madathil Rajendran Nair
White Rock
In the middle of nowhere
On the new national highway
Transfixed I stood
With a broken down car
An April sun fumed above
I had just passed a board
Which named the place White Rock
There wasn’t anything white around
Just a small village of scattered huts
Looming black granite hills
Surrounded by desultory woods
Perhaps a pearly rock hill white
Had stood there before
An extreme singularity
And unwillingly given way
To the tapering highway
A geological marvel
A prehistoric volcanic spit
Or a meteor that landed with a fiery thud
No one knows
And in moonlit nights
It might have resembled from above
A domed UFO hidden in the woods
Lovers of the village had sat on it
Shared their sweet aches in tight embrace
Or in the morning sun
Cobras had mated at its foot
Their moist mouths in rainbow hue
Hooded bodies coiled like vine
In sublime dance of ecstasy
It has vanished without a trace
A keyhole to prehistoric past
The Sun sprang illusory pools
On the unending asphalt tape
That fumed and ran further down
Into an unknown future
Christened a nation’s dream
Sans any link to the past
Beautiful! Just a name has evoked so much imagination in you! The Sun sprang illusory pools On the unending asphalt tape That fumed and ran further down Into an unknown future.......................... Lovely lines!
Downright original. Who could have thought that the result of a vehicle break down would end up with a little town come alive in a poem. you have so many questions. and answers that make me wonder too. Lovely reading.
Woooooow, beautiful sir. Beautifully penned description of wild imagination...simply superb sir as is always...thanks for taking us to those imaginary worlds...
Imagination and description are well penned.Loved reading the poem.
Description of flowery imagination made this poem an excellent read. I loved it. Thank you
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/25/2024 4:18:23 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Wow! Another wonderfully written tale my friend. I assume you got your car fixed before you wrote this.: -)
Thanks. I had only passed that way. The name of the place caught my fancy.