Words of woes
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Sooner go words inconsequent,
For long stays silence eloquent.
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Dawn’s early sun was unfolding its mat of golden rays,
The sky still showed traces of dawn’s soft reddish glow,
Air was imbued with promise of warn days.
What would Buddha say, disciples were keen to know,
Awaiting him to come and say a few words of grace
After a long-held silence, profile low,
As anxious chatak bird awaiting rain,
And keen to quench their thirst and his blessings to gain.
At last, he comes out from long seclusion,
Palpable gets the silence all around,
A bird as if from nowhere comes there all of a sudden
And starts to sing in a voice all so sound,
To pour its joy and bliss as if from vast ocean
As did Buddha from inner joy unbound,
Spell-bound, he holds long-held restrain
Imbibing eloquent silence and song’s melodious strain.
He kept listening till the end, as if to say encore
As all the vast gathering there,
His eyes still closed as if to listen more,
To focus, concentrate on divine fare.
There was no need to say a word more heretofore,
He returned to his hut, silent as ere,
The silence was his discourse for the day,
This sound of deep stillness the world has lost today.
No word can say more, no silence so tall,
Nor is there a discourse that speaks so sure,
Words rarely mean the same to all,
Nor their presence for long endure.
Alas, man’s turned a vendor of words not so small,
Suffering their limitations lost in their lure.
And words enemies are in search of Self,
A mask that helps him to hide his true self.
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Ottava Rima | 08.09.2025 | words, silence
Note: Ottawa Rima in iambic, meter unbound. A chatak bird, Jacobin cuckoo, is said to quench its thirst only from rain drops directly caught in its mouth.
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