PLANT LIFE

Three beautiful girls

dressed up like wonder flowers

float along the luminous street ~

An orange butterfly

comes in gentle delight

with the caressing breeze

flutters around them thrice

pays homage to the new plant life ~

ETERNAL WATERS

Fierce thunder storm ~

Paluskar’s voice sings through

The voice of the rain ~

labyrinths of silences

inscribe

hieroglyphs of eternal waters ~

Circa 1991 ~

Note ~

Paluskar ~ Pandit D.V. Paluskar [Dattatreya Vishnu Digambar Paluskar][1921-1955] the legendary Hindusthani musician ~ Son of the illustrious Vishnu Digambar Paluskar he was recognized as a national figure when he was barely 14 ~ His music was the connoisseurs’ special delight but it appealed even to the common man ~ His music was so steeped in devotion it grew anew on each new hearing ~ Very little of his music exists in recorded form ~ I have obviously heard only these ~ As I was listening to Paluskar sing Raag Bhoop, there was this fusion with the rain song ~