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THE UNICORN REVISITED

Apr 21 2008 | Views 860 | Comments (72)

I see the horse, descendant of the Unicorn and feel her plight Domesticated into submission wit... Expand

I see the horse, descendant of the Unicorn and feel her plight

Domesticated into submission with no respite

Willingly enduring pain and death to save another’s life

She lovingly munches the sugar cube…. Her master lovingly threw

Content and satisfied with no unease for her equitable dues

I watch her habituated, conditioned to the blinds

Comfortably reined in by the stirrups and binds

Amazed I exclaim Wow!!!

You don’t seem a horse but more a cow!!

You once were free

Roaming in the wilds, the forest your territory

Now where is your Speed, Strength, Grace, Power, Beauty

All you do is only your duty

All you show are your mundane qualities

Was your magical strength a mythic deplorability?

You were Pegasus sacred to the Muses and Divinity

From your hoof sprang fountains of poetry and creativity

You gave birth to ephemeral dreams

You gave birth to folk tales and legends

You were the water, you were the fire

You were the wind…the endless desire

You symbolized virility

You were fertility and vitality

You stormed the earth independently

You resisted being tamed and harnessed so effortlessly

Now look at you so feeble and subdued

Where is your fiery wild self I ridiculed?

The horse looks at me lovingly and smiles

You are not tracing mine but projecting your own life

The trajectory is not mine alone..it is yours to the bone

Both You and I have traversed a similar destiny

You and I have been the sacrificial object from eternity

You and I have relinquished our freedom for humanity

You and I have bent our wills and surrendered our warrior spirit

You and I epitomize faithfulness and loyalty to man and his merits

But now the time is ripe to undertake a journey of rights…

Travel within your self to discover who you are….

The tear that rolled down her eyes met mine in a place not far

You and I need to rewrite future history

Pull our energy and spirit from purgatory

And make living a part of our daily realm

And from our disconnected world of enchanted dreams

Find and resurrect once again the resplendent UNICORN within

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reflector posted 3 mnths ago

ushasuryamani
Thank you for the kind words:))

reffy

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reflector posted 3 mnths ago

CVRajan Ji

How are you? Seeing you after a long time.. thank you so much for reading and commenting...

What is my obsession ...even I want to know....:)))))

reflector

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ushasuryamani posted 3 mnths ago

' You are not tracing mine but projecting your own..." good one reflector...

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CVRajan posted 3 mnths ago

Oh reflector,

You and your obsession with the single point theme.

Ram Ram

CVR

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reflector posted 3 mnths ago

bhairavis

I have read your poem and it is very nice.

thank you for the kind words

reffy

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bhairavis posted 3 mnths ago

hey great poem .....really liked it....invite u to read a few psosts of mine on bhiravis iwrite2sulekha.com

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reflector posted 3 mnths ago

Rama Rao Garimella JI
greetings to you...and thank you so much for your feedback and your insightful comment..it is a pleasure to read them...whether one agrees or not is a different matter.

your comment in fact adds to the poem...makes it worth a read..

thanks and do keep gracing my writes with your wisdom.

reflector

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Rama Rao Garimella posted 3 mnths ago

My dear reflector garu,
Greetings.
First let me congratulate for scripting an excellent poem. The form and choice of words is indeed suprb, so is the imagery.
I waited for some time to comment as I had some disagreement. Although there is all round praise for ur poem I thought I must show where I disagree with U.

You are not tracing mine but projecting your own life

The trajectory is not mine alone..it is yours to the bone

Both You and I have traversed a similar destiny
Woman had never been wild and free like a horse right from the beginning. Burdened with the responsibility to procreate and further the progress of mankind she had always been dependent upon the man unfortunately. While the horse definetely resisted being tamed and harnessed the same cannot be said of a woman. On the contrary she always sought protection of the strong bodied man. It is only recently she had been her shackles and gaining independence. Anyway I cant imagine a woman as a wild horse. This is not due to any gender bias but a mere statement of fact and sympathy for the lot of women through ages.

I think comparison of horse and woman needs a second look.
My lone comment doesn't reduce the grandeur of ur poem anyway.
Ramarao.

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reflector posted 3 mnths ago

ajitnambiar
Hey!! that is some compliment...:)))))))) thanks

reffy

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