The Autobiography of a Brook

You've visited me after a long time: Remember; once, I was brimming with might? Named babbling brook, revered as a singing deity, how blissful was my sight! Have reminiscences of your childhood, in my mellow abode."

"Might be pondering: why I look so barren, with no traces of aesthetic shine left?
Wailing! How the amenity of my native region collapsed with my declining diminishing plight!"

"Grieve not that once I was such a beautiful soul, as ascended from heaven to touch the telluric vegetations! I recall, you drew my picturesque portrait, warbling among lush pastures, with mellifluous rhymes, glancing among grassy paddocks! "

"You plucked the wild flowers from the meadows, made garlands to wonder like a wood nymph! How crystal was my flow, even you had the glimpse of your own shadow!"

"Can't forget by sitting on my rubbles, pony tailing, you took me as your mirror! You put your hand to touch the floating colourful fishes as springing with my rhythm! "

"I enriched the flora and fauna of the terrain, whoever came in my course to rejoice with my luminous flow!"


"Like a serpent, I took ample curves and luscious textures to allure! Bedazzled by my sight, the joyous kids ran miles, only to wonder where I recline!"

"Elated by their innocence, I blessed them with my crystal beams! Neither they, nor you while quenching thirst, failed to applaud my pristine beads!"

"Such spontaneous I was, wondering down the sloping meadows to struck the pebbles, the faded pebbles, rejuvenated with myriads of colours, once I started my euphonic fusion!"

"My sweetness rolled over your senses, you owe me as sacred drops!
Now I taste sour: crumbling, with no vestige of sweetness left! I worth mere elegy now; I exclaim, the erudite folly, 'Can you substitute my purity?"

"Gone are the resonances of those euphonious odes; those mellow strains of glee! Still you whisper that from impaired eyes, my meagre counterparts may survive in far-flung valleys!"

"You replete me with hope to save them, if fortunate to wonder like a vagabond hither and thither on those remote regions! Plea to convey my dictum, earth's sacred water will extinct soon, tenderly treat it as boon!"

"You may pen my aching tale; may revive me with the aid of the waking conscience of the folk of the adjacent thorp! "Never say adieu!" adorable: waiting to come alive with your help: to be the epithet, 'the babbling Brook,' the euphonic cynosure again.

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Date: 2/13/2023 12:42:00 PM
Amazing writing, excellent details, you're so talented!
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Date: 8/12/2022 5:19:00 AM
The lament of this 'babbling brook' sends out an agonizing sigh from me ! The once merrily flowing crystal clear brook has lost its purity and ebullience ! With climate change, the beautiful rivers and streams have become just trickles or smudges on cracked terrains ! Still all is not lost... the brook dreams of a time when it can be addressed as 'the babbling brook'and will become once more the cynosure of every eye ! Silpika, this is poetry at its best. Into my FAVE, dear!
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Silpika Kalita
Date: 8/12/2022 11:49:00 AM
Thank you much dear Valsa, you are not only an extremely versatile poet, but slai a splendid reviewer and your concern for ecology is quite prominent... grateful
Date: 11/13/2021 3:25:00 PM
Sweetness, quite. reminds me of a gentle-flowing small trout stream ((6-10" fish) I visit to admire in the Wisconsin driftless bluffs...
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Date: 11/13/2021 10:32:00 PM
Thank for sharing the golden memory Marshall! In fact, the Brook tells a lot of tale! M also missing those lovely sights of the lush terrains !
Date: 11/2/2021 3:14:00 PM
This is a beyond-remarkable poem. The word usage is astonishing, and the images it creates are world class (I do not exaggerate). It is a poem not just to be read, but to be studied. I commend you, SILPIKA, for a stellar composition. Hugs, Paul
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Silpika Kalita
Date: 11/3/2021 5:03:00 AM
Thanks with gratitude for such splendid review Paul! Do believe, sometimes a composition, has a mission and if it touches, believe, I achieve something! Hugs Silpika
Date: 9/28/2021 6:12:00 AM
Wow! Thanks for sharing this. Welcome to PS. God bless you.
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Date: 9/29/2021 1:56:00 AM
Hey dear ,a colossal thanks for reaching me with those wonderful applauds and apostrophes! Stay blessed always!
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