The Milk Miracle, An Indian Elephantine God, Lord Ganesha Sipping, Dripping Milk Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

It was broadcast on the radio, aired on the waves
On the basis of the heresies
As rumoured by the early temple-visitors,
Lord Ganesha sipping milk,
People thronged the temples with rock-statues
To feel the Divine Spectacle
Of Ganesha drinking milk,
The euphoria gripping the people.

The news spread it far and wide,
The broadcast aired on the radio explained
From foreign scientifically
As the statue goes slanting
So one cannot
The milk streaming down,
But the spectacle continued it unnoticed
Till the time
And before one could explain,
The spectacle closed by.

Hearing them, I too proceeded on
But by then the spectacle had come to an end,
The crowds had left the place,
Wanting to have a mystical feel of the moment,
But everything cannot felt en mass,
The spectacle was an inner feeling
To be kept in heart,
But they made it public,
Putting it for an explanation,
Whatever be that, it was a moment,
A specific time to feel the blessing of Ganesha.

When the first batch of the people went to the temple
To offer milk and water to Ganesha,
They came to notice it
Milk vanishing from,
It was a Divine Moment, a Divine Feeling
To feel and share within
Rather than making it public,
Ganesha drinking milk,
Sipping link in the Indian temples,
Come and see,
Go and test the Spectacle Divine
Which but Ganesha stopped it later on.