The Poet And The River Poem by Indira Renganathan

'Big and bonnie, wide and deep in spate
Humming in your own way gurgling notes
Adorned ornate with bordering aesthetics
Oh aeonian affluence so beauteous river
I wish you were born a human damsel
That I so take now your hands in marriage..
I'm simply stunned by your beauty dear'

In extolling content the poet praised
The river replied her wavy brows raised

'O'poet, great and bonnie, wide and deep in wisdom
Cognizant of all global dialect and diction
Versifying in your own way well worded praises
Oh hail to you poet with my heartfelt thanks
Your wish, your right..but o' wise poet
Listen, I have my wish too..further births as many
I wish to be the same me wedded to the same wind'

So saying the beauteous river continued
Uttered more with her sinuous flow pursued

'How great to be in this river-body my soul
O' poet, you know how much wind loves me
He strokes me gently breezing over my bruises
That the rocks and stones give me in my run
He makes the green and hues all swing and sway
That they soothe my body and breath
Ambrosially aromatic showing me heaven
And when the sun at times is angry to burn
O' poet, my spouse swiftly herds the clouds
Hither they come and pour on me to cool
And this aquatic children, their love..
O'poet, will I like to be anything else
I wish to be the same me wedded to the same wind
Better you wish to be a river now or in next birth'

'O.k dearie' confessed the poet in a tone of finish
'And now' he added 'in reverie of you for my wish
Let me swim along my dream for you'.Then Swiiiiiish..
The poet dived and swam to his heart's full wish