Poetry at Sangam

SangamHouse

 










A VALLEY by Ramesh Karthik Nayak

Indeed it was my bitter sleep
Unable to wake up or escape the dream,
It set a stage in my head for a rehearsal

I woke up in a tortoiseshell,
realizing that I am in a valley

It was shining red with
the coagulated blood flowers
Stinking with the blobs of flesh,
strewn on the dried earth

The planets above the valley
pouring salty rain there and here

Wherever I see the emptiness appears pensive
Throbbing into the things on its way to me
Crushing the bones and dust smeared eye balls

At a distance
Some vanished woodpeckers from my childhood
peck skulls, vultures pluck flesh
No single person in the valley appear to my gaze

I was crouched in the tortoiseshell
Beneath me warm blood founts
The vapour of salty rain passes by my side

As emptiness is about to reach me
The stormy blood rain churned up the ambience

The things in the valley have turned into pieces
The glass-like Turbulent in me was growing dense
I woke up with the tears in my eyes
Wiping the valley I saw in my dream

 

Ramesh Karthik Nayak