‘NOCTURNAL NATURE’

Wren Magalong (any/all) is an amateur digital and analog photographer based in Treaty 4 territory in Canada. As an emerging artist, they are constantly trying to push beyond their own limits: stumbling and badly exposing rolls of film every step of the way. But their greatest trick is falling in love with every little imperfect thing they create.

NOCTURNAL NATURE

Pensively promenaded I, as impetuous as a poet
To accumulate few jocund inkling on dusk

For sure, not as a bard
But,as a novice to nature

Stalked I, bare-footed anigh lake
Jabbed some spines beneath my foot

Yon reconnoitred I, do any luminuous light clandestined in water?
Else, any celestial gem floats in lake?

Nay! it's the waxing moon in the sky
That seemed to tread on water.

Paddled I into the lake
To grab some pallied lillies

Hardly perceived I any bloomed one!
Had the lillies been sailed under false colour by moon?

I knew not their intrigue
Nor had I, prescient criteria

Chillness of water benumbed me
Retrieved I, as cool as a cucumber to the bank

Is this terra God's palette?
Obviously! nature is the art of God.

Dark grey was lake's scenario
Stood reeds augustly amidst the lake.

Casuarina broke into tumult
When the west wind passed adriftting it

Glow worms scattered round the bushes
Heard I, croaking of frogs.

I felt languished by chillness
That pierced my chest and nostrils

Homeward bound,strolled I
For I had been there behind my father's back.

As being benumbed by drastic cold
I was at the end of my tether.

Soon felt I, in the arms of Morpheus
On the grass, supine anigh lake

By morning, I began to fly off at a tangents
When an highland lass harped on my shoulder

I began to know the ropes of that wintry night
For it cajoled me to sleep resembling lullaby

N. Mohanarangam, born on 25 September 1973 in Chennai,Tamil Nadu, India, studied English Literature and has been passionately engaged with the English language since teenage years. As a devoted student of English Literature, they began scribing poems early in life. Inspired by many illustrious English poets, they developed a deep affinity for free verse poetry and aspire to emotionally captivate readers, immersing them in a sense of euphoria.

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