O Little bird
What holds me raptured?
Your song?
So dripping with sweetness
Such tenderness
Such gentleness
Such love!!!
You awaken me each dawn
with your song celestial
flooding my heart
with such deep longing
for the One whose
melodies you sing incessantly.
The honeyed nectar
The music of joy supreme
of eloquence and clarity.
The sound of crystal notes!
You take me yonder
to long forgotten memories
of magical sunsets
of flowing rivers
of cool summers…
The breeze nimbly playing the harp
The soft whispers
of the water’s mysterious tales
interspersed, little bird,
with you, frolicking
Amidst the bending reeds!
Each note touches me
more deeply,
deeper and deeper
into the silence within,
where the quietening chatter
and the dreams end,
to the One
Who listens
unattached, non-judgmental
to my minds stray thoughts
holding me clasped
in love’s eternal embrace!
You fly away
into the vastness
my thoughts on your wings,
my heart beat
synchronised with yours!
The knowledge
that you and I are one!
And the Sun slips
into the Ocean,
beneath the waiting horizon.
The skies slowly
change colours.
I stand by my window
searching for you
in the darkening silhouettes,
in the velvety rustle of leaves,
in the maze of branches.
I know you are asleep
peacefully in the knowledge
that you are loved.
You are safe and content
in His warm shelter!
I too sleep assured
with a renewed hope,
an unshakable faith that
He will awaken me
with your magical refrain
of eternal wisdom!
Some dawn I too
will become His flute
through which He will play
His divine incantation!
Bio
Shalini Nandkeolyar is multitalented! She has a diploma in acting from the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts and has acted in a number of plays.
She studied English Literature and Philosophy and has a degree in Business Management.
She is gifted singer and has a music album of Bhajans called, Arpanam.
She enjoys writing poetry. Her poems are exquisite, full of beautiful imagery and dripping with wisdom. Some of her poems have been published in a literary journal, ‘Rainbow’ and magazines.
She is a Reiki Master, an evolved and committed seeker on a path of deep surrender.
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