Simply for the childlike inquisitiveness which is wonderfully depicted in it, I post the poem.
During the festival season in Kerala, the newspapers are flooded with the cruelties and offences committed towards the temple elephants and the ordeals that they undergo in the scorching heat of summer sun in the name of festivals and enjoyments. Our poet Sugathakumari has fervently appealed several times to stop this outrageous atrocities committed against the poor animals but in vain. Now see, even the Lord of Animals (Pasupati- Lord Shiva) has also done the same thing.Yes... no one is bothered to find what happened to the elephant.
Now read " GANAESHA a poem by R.PARTHASARATHY"
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The god Shiva did not take kindly to it.
Who was this whelp trying to stop him,
from entering his wife Uma’s bath?
Ganesha’s rashness cost him his head.
A distraught Uma vowed to get even.
Where was her husband, she cried,
when she made the boy
from the scurf of her own sweet body?
The Lord of Animals then planted
hastily an elephant’s head on his son,
who rode off snorting
into the sunset on, of all things, a mouse.
And no one ever bothered to find out
what happened to the elephant.
Whose head, you wonder, will roll next?
R. Parthasarathy:-
An Indian poet, editor and translator, and lives in
Works:- 1. Rough Passages
2. The Tale of an Anklet: an Epic of
Courtesy: It was published in the Journal of Literature & Aesthetics, July – December2001, Vol.1 and No.1 under the chief editorship of Dr. S, Sreenivasan, the veteran English Professor in Kollam. I got the old copy of the Journal from Hari Books Karunagappally
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