Why the Ocean Flows
A family photo session at home
Covid19 LockDown from the following day
Wavelets of domestic jubilation
Daffodils beside the sea you may say
From a newspaper made bag she brought out
Handed him the fresh yellow banana
Patches of soot and dirt on the smooth skin
Palm and fingers of the domestic aid
A forty-something diligent woman
Multitasking, as a cook and helper
Oblique glances mailing little letters
Making fruit salad with a blooming smile
The brimming moments changed in a moment
Physics into ripples of chemistry
A lilac lone time in a crowded time
A whispering breeze in the clueless chime
Heavy boughs from the laden yellow tree
Gapless closeness of the duck to water
Compulsive current in the hilly creeks
Banana soot and dirt turn enchanting
Inside the swollen grapevine of the park
Busy fingers and crazy toes at play
Sunlight and darkness kept fighting in vain
Bubbles from the ocean bottom prevailed
No brake in the instinctive gondola
The boy and girl in a dizzying high
Musky smell painting the hunting tigers
Perpendiculars and horizontals
In the cloud nine the developing chasm
In each atom the dance of micro spasm
A catharsis of stone age protoplasm
Golden wheat field dancing with the peacocks
From base to crest building up the charges
From wave to wave rushing the blue surges
From shore to shore crushing the pink ocean
From zero to absolute explosion
Overwhelmed I looked and looked at the sea
A wafting flavour of Darjeeling tea
A witness to the bliss of melting snows
Yes, "I think I know why the ocean flows"
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22 April 2020
Poetic lines from a Poetry Soup poet - Vijay Pandit Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Silent One
Note: the last line within the inverted commas are from the poet Vijay Pandit's
poem : I think I know why the ocean flows
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