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Saturday morning readers share:
[Devendra K Mishra]
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Walking with a Griffin
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Are you real
or a reverie plain
or a crop of fertile brain
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In ancient, mediaeval
and modern thoughts–
trailing around the creative plots
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Herodotus and Aeschylus
sang your songs
gold treasure in your arms
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Rick Riorden, Harry Potter,
Dante, Milton, Brothers Grimm
you were in the Carroll’s dream
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What made you
walking along the lake
watching falling the snowflake
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As if in delirium
I asked him straight
but after a nerve-wracking wait
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He read my mind
like a shot
but replied after much thought
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No need to be afraid of
I am real, I am fake
all depend how do you take
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I am from a trusted clan
a great fan of human gaze
since the ancient golden days
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Loneliness struck me really hard
and brought me here for a walk
I am in need of a lovely talk
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It’s a gift to human race
but getting eroded by digital rain
wounded under tremendous strain
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You will trust your eyes ever
if you come out of reason’s door
welcoming imagination to your floor
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Suddenly sun blazed
making the day difficult to bear
and he vanished into thin air
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Devendra K Mishra
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Devendra Mishra is the author of The Cursed Crow, Whenever I Feel, The Cara Coffee Bar, and The Colour of Forgotten Sounds. He is drawn to the classics and sees living poetry woven through the natural world. Following no creed but a quiet religion of humanity, he feels blessed, contented, and serene. He lives in India.
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Years ago, I came to know the Griffin while I was going through a mythological article. This wonderful allegorical character with an eagle part golden and a lion part white attracted me a great deal.
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What will be the scene if he suddenly appears before me? I imagined it, and it made me realize how boring the world we live in today is with cognitive reasoning and digital life. It reconfirmed to me that a human life without imagination is bleak with profound loneliness, while imagination has the ability to fill the desert with colourful flowers. It gives hope and joy, leading to a meaningful life.
— Devendra
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poet Mishra may enjoy one of my all time favorite short stories, The Griffin and the Minor Canon by Frank…