The Great Confluence

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    Kumb Mela - one of the largest human gathering on the earth! A feast for all our senses.

    The Great Confluence

    Balancing nectar-filled pots on their heads

    ladies shook a leg or two  

    and sung their gratitude for the land they walked on.

    The naked naga sadhus came

    from all corners to the confluence.

     

    There was the smell of marigold and ashes they wore,

    the sea of sounds from all over the world,

    the trumpeting elephants,

    the colour-clad modern bands and the manly bhangras,

    and the chimes off the devotees' shoulders

     

    Sadhus, scholars, laity

    all moved single-minded to the Water.

    Scholarly sages with not a care in the world,

    discoursed the worries of the world,

    others immersed in the Water,

    launched leafy boats of flowers

    and wished to wash away their worries.

    Midst of it all the journos waited impatient

    for that twelve-year tryst with the earthly sadhus.

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    BusinessPoet commented on The Great Confluence

    10-29-2009

    You have a beautiful way with descriptions. Pulled me in and kept me in this world from the first line to the last. Very nicely written.

    abraham

    10/30/2009

    Thanks a lot for ur comments. Believe me, experience out there is out of this world.

    Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

    T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.

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