A SOLITARY PLUCKER

A SOLITARY PLUCKER

Ah! Once, I chanced upon a rustic and solitary plucker

Plucking jollily in a fancy garden, flowers of myriad hues,

With raptest attention, sweetest elation and utmost care,

Smiling, on the emerald blades, like sparkling dawn dews!

I was caught, unheeded, by her mystique, but melodious croon

I feared, lest I should, by her mesmerizing symphony, soon swoon,

And be oblivious of my own mortal enntity by that heavenly Sprite

Who did, perchance, alight to spell-bind all with her gluing sight!

Oh! Her pleasing presence produced around a hallowed and elysian halo

That instantaneously stole my heart, beckoning with a twinkling ‘Hello!’,

Tickling with her tantalizing Aura as if, to treasure fondly, to swallow

Metamorphosing a poor, common wayfarer into a rich, fortunate fellow!

Ah! The distracting loads of cares pressed me to bid a sad, hesitant adieu to her

Still, she will keep resonating in me like a nimble, murmuring Stream forever…….

N.B:  The above poem is inspired by William Wordsworth’s poem “SOLITARY REAPER.”

1. Smiling, on the emerald blades, like sparkling dawn dews!

The above line is in inversion.The correct order of the line is:

Smiling, , like sparkling dawn dews, on the emerald blades!

2. Tickling with her tantalizing Aura as if, to treasure fondly, to swallow

The above line is in inversion.The correct order of the line is:

Tickling with her tantalizing Aura as if, to swallow to treasure fondly.

GLOSSARY:

* rustic and solitary - country and lonely

* chanced upon - came across/met by chance

* jollily – happily

* myriad hues - countless colours

* raptest – keenest

* elation – happiness

* emerald blades – green coloured blades of grass

* mystique - air of secrecy

* melodious croon - musical song

* lest - for fear that

* mesmerizing - attention-grabbing

*symphony -  piece of music

*swoon - lose consciousness

* oblivious – unmindful

* sprite – fairy

* perchance – perhaps/ possibly

* hallowed - sacred

 *elysian halo – heavenly circle of light

* instantaneously - at once

* tantalizing Aura - tempting atmosphere

* treasure -save

* swallow – conceive of immediately

* Metamorphosing – transforming

* wayfarer – traveler

* hesitant adieu - unwilling farewell

* resonating – echoing

* nimble - lively

*murmuing - speaking softly

 ©Shankar D Mishra 28.08.2017

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