My imagined escape [villanelle]
I'll bring with me few books & no computer
I'll sit beside the hill & sing darbari
being of poetry a mere wayward suitor
I've lived in modern cities (tasting fruit or
enjoying urban blossoms) though not chary
I'll bring with me few books & no computer
No horn have I! how could I be my tooter?
no battles hence no salvo & no parry
being of poetry a mere wayward suitor
Ah memory can be such a fine diluter!
is all grist for the would-be vidyakari?
I'll bring with me few books & no computer
Reclusion could prove poetry's fond rebooter
yet convivial nights where skies are mooned & starry
can be suitable yet for poetry's wayward suitor
If all things are good my question: which is gooder?
the lone mountain study or the bright town safari?
I'll bring with me few books & no computer
being of poetry a mere wayward suitor
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darbari -- a particularly serious, sober, stately late-night raaga
vidya [knowledge] kari [one who does]: so the meaning (in context) should (I'd propose) be -- an apprentice-practitioner of the path of knowledge
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