A huge python crawls in dream again
Massive shadowy figure of long grey serpent
Moves with tremendous force in cold obscurity
From mythological memory I recall of Vasuki*
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An unsusual kind of poem... but a very beautiful one.. the fear wonderfully explained in your poem...
The ancient Indians nailed down the age of the universe with astounding accuracy, according to Carl Sagan. How did they? I call myself a Buddhist but what do I know about Hinduism? Little. I will learn, I can see, from your works!
Beautiful poem. It's really a frightening dream. Some dreams are really scary, leaves one wondered whether it was an illusion or truth... In fact I had many horror dreams especially the snake in childhood. Loved reading it. Beautiful way you have presented it.
Amid the fallen debris of rocks and iron His coils and fang will have mercy For a little room where the most delicate The most helpless of all A little innocent life lies Blissfully unaware of lurking danger. I am sure, it is the thought about the safety of your grand child......! ! A beautifully composed poem bringing out all the horror and fright of a daunting nightmare! !
Fears are in our sub-conscious, and sometimes in unconscious too, when our conscious is dormant, these fears are converted into nightmares.