Stingy green <br />Dirty brown <br /> <br />An arrogant girl <br />In a man’s world. <br /> <br />A Drop of green <br />From God’s palette. <br /> <br />The break of planes <br />For painter’s brush. <br /> <br />A Poignant still <br />For a movie’s climax. <br /> <br />Landmark to guide <br />Lost traveler. <br /> <br />A physical marker <br />For Bomber’s radar. <br /> <br />The proof of sanity <br />Amidst, ocean of cruelty. <br /> <br />Not the lusty tree, which tickled, Eve’s nipples. <br />Not the lucky tree, which witnessed, Budha wake up. <br />Not the guilty tree, which rested, the soul of Saviour. <br />Nor a happy tree, which shaded, the resting Prophet. <br /> <br />Resilient to prove <br />Hitler’s theory. <br /> <br />Boorish bully <br />Banished from forest’s chat room. <br /> <br />Uncouth specimen, unfit for gardens <br />Roguish host, greets you with thorns <br />Depressed girl of suppressed passions <br />Orphaned child with a violent rage <br /> <br />Still I like the lonely tree <br />Breath of life in the furnace of sand <br />Dream of a forest <br />In the middle of a desert.<br /><br />Raghavan Warrier<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/only-tree-in-a-lonely-desert/
