LONELY VALLEY

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        LONELY VALLEY

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                                           Staring to the Mount Shiva Lingam,

                                           And its lovely dark green tip

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                                           We sat on a piece of stone,

                                           Just  on the sharp edge of a hill side deep.

                  

       ,                                                                       Oblivious of the obvious danger,

                                                                                That awaits a slightest carelessness,

                                                                                We lost ourselves in the soothing lap of Nature

                                                                               Who welcomed and embraced us with loving caress.

                                    Dressed in deep green saree  with white lining,

                                    Of the waterfalls and snowy white patch,

                                    The mother Nature moves around us,

                                   In the floating cotton like clouds with a heavenly touch.

                                                                                Clouds above our heads , clouds below in the hills,

                                                                                 Concealing and revealing the mountain peak,

                                                                                 Giving an impression of a lovely  image,

                                                                                Found and lost in a dream of sleep.

                                In this lovely valley of Lonavala,

                              We enjoyed to our hearts fill,

                            Nature talked to us in the murmuring of the Lake water,

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                          And in the sound of the Water falls flowing down the Hill.

                                                                             

                                                                              The endless blue Sky with patches of clouds here and there,

                                                                              And the sweet music of the Wind that spreads to the  

                                                                                                                                                        Distant horizon,

                                                                            Nature appears before us in the Silence, in the Serenity

                                                                          And in the tickling of the drizzling Rain.

      We listened to  Nature, we talked to her ,

And we felt her presence like a living being,

Wordsworth, the great worshiper of Nature

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Must have appreciated this Lonely Valley,

And could have gathered some more elements,

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For his theory of Pantheism.

                                                                            In an endless interaction with Nature,

                                                                          He must have enjoyed the celestial pleasure,

                                                                          And heard the sound of the Silence in his deep sleep

                                                                          In the lap of Nature in this beautiful valley here.

   I happened to be in the midst of

The wonderful phenomena of this enchanting valley,

With the family of my loving daughter  and my wife,

The sweet memories of this LONELY VALLEY ,

Will  really remain ever green  till the end of my life.                                                                                                                                         

NOTE----(1) Lonely Valley------Lonavala Hills

                 (2)Mount Shiva Lingam-------A mountain peak  in Lonavala Hills that resembles to Shiva  Lingam

                                                                       and accordingly named.

                (3)We---------------Manas, my son-in-law

                                               Jitini, my loving daughter

                                              Little  Kunmun,daughter of Jitini  and  Manas & our  sweet little grand-

                                             Daughter.

                                              Reenu- my wife.               

                        

                                          

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