Orchard of Perspectives
Black boxes atop a vintage shelf
adorned with dust of opinions groan.
Oh they are overweight with burdens
quivering to shed a few genuine thoughts
but they burn in the fire of red dragon
that engulfs snow-clad valleys somewhere
or those driven by processed thoughts
cocooned in silver foils of inclination
Insane frenzy still remains for verdicts
declared by those deemed righteous
yet this orchard boasts of supremacy.
I've bubbled a thousand crimson ideas
nascent and pious they seemed to me.
Alas! we all have been presumptuous
every human is conditioned thus to be.
A folklore lost in the Indian ocean
fills my blue cup to the brim
'succumb to the obvious or breathe'.
My bougainvillea seeds sprout in cacophony,
I let them dance in multiverse of drops
my eyes witness dimensions in perspectives
stagnant rivers now rush to travel
as far as my mind opens rusty gates
displaced neutrons explode in a Big Bang
here's to another beginning of existence.
My mind sprays fragrance of blue roses
extinguishing raging flames of supernova.
This trench needs to be extended
beyond seven seas and continents of Rome,
let bees and butterflies fly in unbiased harmony
to suck nectar and produce infant honey.
I've planted my primrose of valor and hope
in the orchard of perspectives at last,
wiped dust of assumptions from black box
wrapped in banana leaves under oak tree.
I'm not free of my opinions but let them be
no longer do I succumb to frenzied wars.
I've got a song for my cuckoo to orchestrate
my tunes absorb opinionated fumes in universe
and crush them till they nourish aroma of light
that builds an abode for explorers that roam
in a luminescent entropy of ideas that flutter
around judgement but not pulled down by it
pumping superimposed energy to newborn pearls
that breathe free with all perspectives.
June 25, 2020
Opinion Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Kai Michael Neumann
~Premiere Contest Winner: 1st Place
Copyright © Aditi Mishra | Year Posted 2020
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