The Wind Is Blowing Poem by Prof Niamat Ali Murtazai

The Wind Is Blowing



The wind is blowing like an addicted one,
Not mindful of the remarks of the Sun.
It pulls shoots and twigs to lose the balance
Today she need not know resistance.

She laughs at the falling grey haired leaves,
As sand- grains fall down from the holes of sieves.
The time- sieve drops down the weak, and the old
To be buried in dust fold over fold.

The blowing wind also makes dust restless,
As Fate makes human beings totally helpless.
The whirling Wind seems to have drunk a lot
So much that her thirst has emptied the pot.

She also makes flower- petals scatter far
As if there was coming some dreadful war.
Like the war of man against his surrounding
Or the decay that is always hounding.

The long processions of faeries dancing;
Light denizens of air lost in romancing.
Some festival seems to be going on
To which the hilarity of the Wind is prone.

O, it seems to be filled with past memories
Of passed dear moments’ glass menageries.
She is sobbing and moaning like a girl
Who in modesty her hair does not furl.

Or she is upset with her today’s matter
Some sad call from clouds or some bad letter
Has ravished her calm and peaceful posture;
Or she is invited in some green pasture.

Or she is carrying fate to souls’ houses
In this hazardous task makes noises.
Or she is lamenting on death of man
And has become worthless her airy fan.

Or she is passing through summer’s threshold
Where she will ever wait for showers cold.
For some months she will inhale hell’s hot breath
Will turn into frying pan her sweet, cool berth.

Or she herself is scourged by tyrant Time
Unhoused she moans all around without rhyme.
Or she is ringing an alarm of danger
For the coming time is much stranger.

Or she carries a mirror for each face
To observe relevant species and true race.
Or she is asking man to keep moving
For life is, in fact, reaping and sowing.

Monday, April 27, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: nature
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