Do something before you’re stopped by Logic,
Logic: scarcely a good friend of Magic
Rapidly grabbing its territories
Even seizing Magic’s toiletries!
Do something before Logic gets tragic,
The hardest of blows landing on Magic.
I see you side fast with Aristotle
In quest of the same size, same title.
Midcourse, you turn Attacked Helpless Turtle
And this would you out of race hurtle…
Do something before Logic screams LOGIC
Or continues to say “Be strategic!”
There has been a helpful “Just say you can;
I would pass a hotel “Be a man.”
Both, of course, neither Magic nor Logic
But upon test deliver as magic.
i wished to plant the seedlings of black tupelo
shumard oak, sugar maple, biloba-ginkgo
for its reddish yellowish beauty on the meadow
For its dance on the air with the wind blow
green all were lured to my eyes
but now on the midcourse of the fly
from its bole by death dry and cleave
autumn birds hovering on the air
trying to catch falling leaves
while children gambol on colorful litter-leaves on the soil
before the wind push it far and make all spoil
The notable royal horse called Chetak,
ridden by 16th century ruler Maharana Pratap,
found place in the annals of Rajputana history
as the valiant and loyal blue horse.
When Akbar’s mighty mughal army attacked
the kingdom of Mewar, and a fierce battle raged
in the canyon of Haldighati of the Aravalli range,
where Pratap rode Chetak to fight the enemy.
Chetak got wounded in the midcourse and
feeling he might fall anytime in the battlefield,
he jumped over a stream, took Pratap to safety
before he succumbed to the injury, died a hero.
October 13, 2021
Contest : A Notable Horse
Sponsor : Robert James Liguori