JK PANORAMA VOL 3 ISSUE 1 JANUARY

Winter!
G N Ahangar
Clad in frost,
look dim and dull;
turn the gay hearts sad;
And the dawn deceits
Thy pride lies in storm,
the on-lookers
snow and the icy rain.
The long evenings lay their beds
Everything shrinks in nature,
and induce nature with its poppy seeds.
blizzard after blizzard,
The mighty nights slumber
coupled with whirling snow
in dead silence,
reflects your arrogance.
and look as if
The ice and frost decays
possessed by a demon
small plants and even
with a cosmic yawn.
some seedling shrubs.
The harvest fields are forsaken,
The naked trees look silence descends the snow
like supernatural beings in the fields and the mountain heads.
in their grey and old look.
The troubled sky
The feeling of sterility darkens the mind, reveals grief.
And man becomes
People speak in broken words;
the winter's eunuch.
And the birds in silent syllables.
Birds flee in fear Mysterious music of melancholy
and hide in their nests.
is felt everywhere.
Some winter birds from foreign lands Hearts throb no more,
visit the Valley,
hands benumb
and stay in
and the soul- the inner man is palled.
snow clad lakes and ponds.
Oh winter!
Oh Winter!
Your countenance is like an old
Thou art dull
worn out woman,
and surly!
sitting down the way side,
The clouds descend
and waiting for godot.
down and down and
Fires on the untrodden paths
wrap the valley like
are pale like the setting sun.
the shroud.
The bells in the temples
The mellowing sun
lull the people
struggles hard to pierce
for the ultimate rest.
through but often fails.
The chilly mornings
13
January 2018