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www.the-criterion.com <strong>The</strong> <strong>Criterion</strong>: <strong>An</strong> <strong>International</strong> Journal in English ISSN 0976-8165<br />

<strong>An</strong>other View of a Grand One<br />

* after seeing the Grand Canyon<br />

Vistas, rag-rugged edges, much our crown as a heron's<br />

Comb overcome the greening shrubbery and overgrowth,<br />

But meandering way below gushes the river Colorado.<br />

Stand, breathlessly, enthused before fence-barred edges<br />

On either its more peopled South rim, or lesser visited<br />

North rim, and swallowed in its rust-rock expanse,<br />

A catharsis of sorts rekindles, intoning archaic dreams<br />

Dear their top tier totem: however prickly we reach,<br />

Unlike here—we may not touch our Tao of love.<br />

Genie to ingénue withstanding the zenith intricacies<br />

Of said loss sure superseded this place's mysteries,<br />

Unscripted, spirited like some wounded person,<br />

God, mourning covenant irrevocably broken—<br />

Plummeted causing this second Eden.<br />

Whinza Kingslée Ndoro<br />

New Jersey, USA<br />

<strong>Vol</strong>. <strong>II</strong>. <strong>Issue</strong>. <strong>II</strong>I 301 <strong>September</strong> <strong>2011</strong>

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