Elements

Water

Female wiles, feminine charms
Nascent, warm pure;
nurturing, cleansing rain.
Bewitching, beguiling, sly;
softly chortling stream
Strong passionate power;
rushing, gushing cascade.\
Vast, fathomless, eternal;
mystical, mysterious sea.


Wind

A man of many moods
Cool fragrant gentle breeze,
stirring romance on starry nights.
Grim, purposeful determined
strong rain carrying winds.
Deep, intense, passionate
powerful gales, hinting storm.
provoked ire ,avenging
typhoon wrecking calm.
Trapped
in a lady’s dainty fan.


FIRE

Red, orange, yellow and blue
gaily dressed dancers
gyrating to a silent tune.
Rising and falling
like mocking laughter,
licking and leaping
hungry for slaughter.
Catching and spreading
like rumour on ears.
Cackling like a witch,
devouring like a demon.
Dying slowly
in muted whispers


EARTH

Testing, tantalizing
dancer of the veils.
Now luscious green,
fecund and ripe;
then damp mud,
fragrant with life.
Here scorching dry,
hiding all life;
there snowy aloof,
arrogance rife.
Holds a molten heat
that leaves a flaming trail
in it’s wake.



SKY


Endless, minute, ancient, new
A master’s art, nature’s view.
Pink streaked orange at dawn
Clear blue as the sun goes on
Purple tones ’fore night’s born
Velvet black when day’s gone.
Locking secrets of many hues
Silent sentinels leaves no clues



Kavya Bharathi , No 15, 2003.