Ode to Virginia

You lay the bricks
one by one

Bend before the waves
bit by bit

Die from within the chromosomes
thread by thread

all of this while
Virginia smiles at you
through her nightly rains
and
the scattered woods
peeping from
beyond the
well built roads.

--

Anant Dhavale

1

not a story
but a few dots

all the charities
and the endeavours
a little feeble
faded

one long road of trees all along
each with a lifetime

so much lingers on
a lone leaf

hope, a big red sun
arising
every morning


Anant Dhavale