My father

 

 

 

Invisible is his presence

Ethereal,not unpalpable

On dark nights he acquires

The luminosity of an astral body

At Gaya the waters reflected him

As did the leaves of the pipal tree

I tried the Zen and thought-waves

He smiled through the clouds

The cloud’s shapes were

Mysterious and friendly .

Cant you see him there

In the morning , when the sky

Is bare of the white fluffy clouds

And in the blue distance

The mountains pile one on the other.

On the day of the holy bath,

He comes riding on the ripples

Of the sacred Godavari river

On the annual ritual day

The crow becomes him ,

Pecking at balls of cooked rice

At other times he resides in my dreams.

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