Thursday, January 29, 2009

Salute the Sculptors

Searched your footsteps on sandy beach,
fingertips on stones you carved
but could hear the whispers of the bulls
telling the tales of your artistic hands
that could write on stones the poems
I read.

Your vastness I imagined
Saw your signatures on chariots and elephants
spreading across
the lands and oceans
calling the people through years
showcasing your gifts
to us and generations.


Heard the pangs of the stones,
their long waitings with sighs and longings
for your
soft touch and humming with chisel,
perseverance and passions to excel
to make the flowers blossom on sands
and the sea emotes to sing your songs
forever and ever,
to make us hear
as if you are standing there.

Felt in morning mist
as if you touched last night the stones
with your sweat-soaked hands;
Saw you in mystic darks
as if lying along
Mahavali in slumber
to get up one day to repair
the worn outs,
to rededicate it for ages
to come and live
among and make us learn
what should we garner
in this long run!


Salute the sculptors -
the pious and the humbles
preferred to humility being anonymous.
Oh! salute you the great sculptors.


Hrushikesha Mohanty

On visiting Mahavalipuram on 26th January 2009.


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear Sir,
I am proud of your writings,
This gives immense pleasure,
Took me to the almighty
I loose myself
Ponder over the question who am I
Tried my best to see you within Him
And your Godly creation

Understood the deepest of your thought
Its so deep that it need finest concentration
to understand you and HE

Its difficult for me to discover
the touch of the Almighty hands
but blessed me to understand you
your writing
thoughts
devotions
and emotions for Him

With regards
Rati

Anonymous said...

Dear Sir

The poem is the thoughts that have come from your heart that you had when deeply involved in the praise of the sculptors of the mahabalipuram ROCK TEMPLE while visitig it.

C.K. Rajendran

Anonymous said...

Dear Sir,

I visited Mahabalipuram as a child, and now I have a desire to see the place again.

Your salutations to the sculptors of this place is very touching. The anaonymous ones have left a legacy for us to be proud of. I join you in saluting them.

Regards,
R. Anand

Sapna said...

Sir,

Emotions in words.

The lines have articulated what one feels seeing the sculptures in Mahabalipuram. Your lines sum up the place - the sculptures, the sea and the sand. Also, it makes us look beyond the obvious, the sculptors and legacy they have left behind.

A B Sagar said...

A sculptor wields
The chisel, and the stricken marble
grows
To beauty.