Scrutiny Of A Psyche Poem by Indira Renganathan

Scrutiny Of A Psyche

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Never a hallucination did she never fear
Snake gourd like a snake didn't delusively appear
Yet all changed smacking her heart to drear
One day with a basket by a snake charmer

Came on the charmer to capture with glee
Embedded her boldness drove him to flee
Devotee of snake-God she on a spree
Eerie-less so her heart was cheery

Around the house garden a dense forest
But seldom a treat such so left
Can enter in no foreign body
Permission granted only to known somebody

Appeared a week later snake- charmer
Simply played his magudi the snake catcher
Grew her nerves anguished in temper
Controlled herself but with all prayer

On and on went the magudi
Bushy hiss, a snake up on eerily
Asked her piety to let it flee free
But lo, caught and thrusted into his bag gunny

Disobeyed he, hence obliged not she
Nothing of his money paid she
His turn, released the reptile angrily
All the world's curses throwing on her badly

Sleepless nights thence haunted her gravely
All the charmer's curses gunning fiery
And her psyche accounted the destiny
Bad to worse to the worst of scrutiny

Of course life writhes, squirms and wriggles
Serpentinely venomous at times
Spreading its hood trouble- flickering
From its satanic fang sufferings out flowing

Althrough trustworthy her serpent God
Sudden susceptibility yet in sunken heart broad
In the grip of a comminating serpent
Bewildered life in mirthless thought

Her guts unnerved why?
Recessed her devotional ply?
Who the serpent, charmer or the reptile?
Or the Lord Himself for a while?

Unknown person, unknown reasons
Coiled down life with curses
Revere the Lord and dread His wrath..truth
Seldom more prayers, she with vigilant breath

Thursday, May 1, 2008
Topic(s) of this poem: social
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Mahtab Bangalee 05 August 2019

Of course life writhes, squirms and wriggles Serpentine venomous at times Spreading its hood trouble- flickering From its satanic fang sufferings out-flowing....//// great and outstanding writings; I think this poem is the pure spiritual lessons on the life and its theology/// excellent

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Kumarmani Mahakul 30 August 2018

Unknown person, unknown reasons Coiled down life with curses Revere the Lord and dread His wrath..truth Seldom more prayers, she with vigilant breath......nice poetic expression. A beautiful poem nicely presented. Thanks for sharing.

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