Young Yogi Poem by Peter Long

....a poem series about a young yogi and his method of being successful in the face of problems based on meeting of yogi and bhagavad gita..

young yogi was walking to pushkar

he passed a stranger holding a camera

the stranger was a jnani knowledge yogi

the stranger was pointing the camera all about the place

recording the many scenes

the karma yogi was in the eye of jnani knowledge yogis camera

and he did not like being there

he thought to himself

if i was holding that camera

there would be no separation

no abuse or misprint from that camera

i would sleep with that camera

i would eat with that camera

i would breath easily only if that camera had film in it

i would hold that film stock to a common ownership

not a solitary confinement like that jnani

not by an ordinary way or even too much of a practical way

but as real wages

and not

only for travellers and pilgrims

my pictures would flow towards life.. like a sacred river feeding healthy nutrients into the diamond harbour in Bengal

and those laughing pictures

and those crying pictures

would rest gently

into those sands

i would stand meditating amidst those sands

all ways

the best and worst of time

at all times

living together with my camera in those

memorable pictures

two lovers never apart or alone

in equilibrium.... wow.....

........but alas..

someone else has the camera

is pointing that camera

has come here to this city to take pictures of us

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