How many of us ever spare a minute to glance at the clouds changing their shapes? Sit in the moonlight for a while? Keep a pot of water in the garden for the birds? There would be a selected few who would answer in an affirmative. While watching clouds once, I gave it a thought that it actually sets the reigns of our imagination free. And is indeed an exercise of our brain.
W.H.Davies in his poem 'Leisure' wrote:
WHAT is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?—
No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
The sight of the full moon is thought provoking and entertaining as watching the birds come to your house to drink water from the pot. Then there is the "never ending line" of flowers in the garden. But things have come to such a pass that small kids take the planetorium to be the original thing and the star-studded sky, just a facsimile copy. This is bound to happen when the kid has seen a planetorium first and not the starry night's sky.
2 comments:
Very aptly put into words what I have been wondering that I had lost since the days I have left my village 'Chauke'. YOu hits bull's eye when you todays children see planetarium before night sky !! Congrats for making such a herculean literary effort !! & thanks for praising my photography !!
my favourite poem only after Tagore's - Where the mind is without fear. Glad to see someone else appreciates this poem too!
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