Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Under the village sky

Stars in the village sky
Faint among the bright
Bright among the faint
Extend far into the fields.
Lying on our backs
we counted them and narrated stories
till sleep silenced each of us.
There was a story about wolves
someone happened to mention.
I slipped into sleep thinking
about the missing child.
The night was dense and dewy.
The trees swayed wildly
as if to breakaway from the roots
and walk towards us.
Like a thousand tongues their leaves
reflected off the syrupy moonlight.
I turned this side and that
groping for a hand to hold.

2 comments:

pranabk said...

Like a thousand tongues their leaves
reflected off the syrupy moonlight.

I liked that!

Avi said...

Nice.Trees breaking away and walking reminded me of LOTR.