Sunset Splendour

                          Sunset Splendour

              The Kohinoor of nature set yesterday,with such splendour,

               that I was left breathless with joyous wonder.

               So utterly magnificient was the setting sun's grandeur.

               Dark grey clouds acquired a heavenly golden yellow hue,

               blue sky and soft beams of orange sun seen by so few.

               A halo of light cast by a retreating God ,so strong and true.

      

               A riot of colours strewn on the canvas of the sky,

               by the strokes of a master artist, was created this rare beauty,

               resplendent leave taking ,after performing a life giving duty.

               As if in reverence, the flowers opened and blossomed,

               A cool breeze blew and the surroundings transformed,

               into a scented and divine garden like Eden,that man in his folly abandoned.

              Drinking the ambroisia of natures unparalleled beauty,

              All her crteations were exuberant and tremendously happy.

              So exotic and strangely sensual is nature in the height of ecstasy.

              

              Then like a wave which rises and falls, then finally dies out.

              The mighty sun even in death, finally defeated in this bout,

              and then rushing in comes Black night,full of fear and doubt.

              So transient and momentary, this jewel's brilliant light,

               yet so fulfilling and satiatingly bright.

               that everything else seems so puny and of very little might.

(dates back to June 1990 at AFMC)