teak forest stream
meandering along
by way of Gir forest green
Maldhari child
sheds tears in fear,
Just recently here in Colorado Springs there have been several mountain lion sightings plus a few attacks. The attack involved a mother mountain lion showing a young cub how to hunt. The target-someones’ pet dog in their back yard.
Indian Gujarat lions
suddenly appear
hunting for cattle,
Maldhari land
love, hope, danger,
India’s commanding voice
African sunset,
sunburnt, dusty haze
outlines of acacia trees,
grazing antelopes leaping,
grasses are swaying
in warm breezes
African lions
napping at dusk
Indian lion, purring
and roaring
They typically are driven to lower elevations to uncover water and food when it’s dry-not inside the middle of winter.
Indian lion,
bends down so low
wandering stream bed,
twisting and turning
sipping cool water,
The Hill
A post-card perfect, sun descends,
Orange ball of soft and gentle heat-
On streets,
Pockmarked,
Sidewalks cracked
Twisting up and about
The hill-
A mini-Calcutta fantasy,
A Bombay, Gujaratan festival of life,
-Throbbing,
They use a stalking technique when out in the back country to obtain their prey. Bears are surprisingly agile and fast but are up to 2-3 times the size of your extremely quick 120 pound cat.
The hill
Descends to greet the sun,
Drums of bangra music humming
Slowly beating,
Rising to an ecstatic frenzy;
Should you encounter a mountain lion or rather a person finds you hiking or camping a single means of self defense is to appear as large as you are able to with arms outstretched and yell and scream. The threatening bluff may well work. It does occasionally on bear attacks too.
Try throwing whatever you can come across at the cat-rocks, sticks, branches but do not run or turn your back. However….
Painted turbans dot the landscape,
Like violet and orange flowers ,
Of a sun-specked Monet oil painting,
A mini-Mecca of Arabic tongues,
Blended in and out weaved in foreign stores,
Like a subdued strand of color,
In an Oriental rug soon to be sold;
Indian spices, aromas rising,
Like winding invisible snakes
Of aromatic wonder,
From restaurants and vendors-
Who could believe that this town of
Italian card games
Irish neighborhoods of 100 years
Could transform, metamorphose, becoming what it is,
An America-Calcuttan Gujaratan Mecca
Of spices, throbbing footsteps and a myriad tongues,
Mahatma Gandhi Boulevard
The gentle hill
Of Newark Avenue.
Jersey City, NJ
The harp resounds with harmonious chords,
a wonderful noise of really like outpours,
a gentle breeze blows as a result of the air,
by means of flowers blooming without the need of a care;
So graceful in their peaceful world
as violets, aquas and reds unfurl
to bloom with lovely, basic grace,
a symphony of color is traced;
On a canvas of springtime and summer flowers,
with oils and pastels alive to light the hours
a graceful painting from heaven bends
dovelike petals with fingers extend,
Reflecting the sun of futures bright,
gently whispers that things are right,
of peaceful days that never will end
to let you know God is your friend.
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