Radha's Gaze Poem by Uma nair

RADHA'S GAZE



Still amidst the jasmine shower

Seeking solace for a pensive prayer.


Radha's rituals still the chants

Lyrical hums of a flute's haunts





Bolts and crevices gloom

Daliesque dense colours croon

While yet within the woods

Widows lie in wait, in broods



The Raaga drips and dips as it drags,

The notes of moody crags

Thy mystic notes fan out

Into a feminine feline's pout



And when the celestial melody plays

Hearts and hands throb with Radha's gaze.

2012