Niceties of November rains <br />In a lordly remote touch <br />Brought in guests <br />Who took me on a state-highway <br />That was anew greenish afresh <br />Paddy-sided right and left <br />In big puddles but tanked <br />That the grey sky puffed bulky <br />Very willingly was duplicating itself <br />To which betwixt sunshine peering <br />In a play of hide and seek <br />Upsetting the watchful Ayyanar <br />All which His evidential horse <br />In silent neigh signalled, reported <br />That other village-deities spared <br />In secret enjoyment but in open escorting <br />In divine drizzles then and there <br />And new, new visiting birds <br />In total rejoicing coo-cooing colourful <br />On rhapsodic trees swaying in dancing plies <br />While the rainy breeze rollickingly caressing me <br />I lost myself in a different world... <br /> <br />But approaching sea-roaring <br />Brought me back diligent <br />To step into the Lord's abode <br />Ramping up and down, up and down <br />Through the cramming swampy crowd <br />Unto Lord Muruga's feet <br />Which beat back once the conceited tsunami, <br />Like the defeated three demons aeons back <br />Alike even this soul be conquered <br />I held the Lord's feet tight in full surrender <br />But as Matter mattered much I left my soul there <br />Just to return with this stale body <br />And started spinning around the precincts <br />With my heart and mind once, twice, thrice <br />In restarts of abrupt slokha-recitation <br />And when my soulless feet got fatigued <br />Transcient me on sudden realisation.. <br />Where are the accompanied guests...? <br />And almost on a fall I sat O'Muruga... <br />Just to hear prompt that moment <br />From the godly tower an utterance <br />From a beautiful peacock in unfurled dancing <br />An unsyllabled cry but voicing special <br />'Searching the Truth...? ' <br />To which unanswered my heart pondering on still <br />Though I joined the guests on return journey<br /><br />Indira Renganathan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-visit-to-thiruchendur/
