Monday, May 15, 2006

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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