Oh Today I Bring For You
Oh! Today I bring for you:
The Apricots of blue-hilly Ladakh
Almond beans of verdant valley Kashmir
Cashew-nuts and coconut of coastal green Kerala
The raisins of old-arty Iran
Wet dates of sizzling sandy Arab.
Forget not! To have them every evening—a few,
Opening these slow-days’ fatiguing fasts,
Reclined after dinner having a cup of hot tea;
When the old crows belatedly return their nests
Inside their burrows—the woody lofty boughs
Of the hefty chinars, and make some pleasing noise;
When the day’s dozing
And the night’s washing her long-slept eyes.
(written in the holy month of Ramdan- perhaps august 2011)
Copyright © Fayaz Bhat | Year Posted 2014
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