arvind shah: Cheerful Camp

My Weekend Poems # 8

Cheerful Camp - Sweet Home

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You believe: market upbeat is freshness

and my old hold and bond is stillness -

choose to develop and grow in market fashions

and find joyful glee to see many occasions

in dazzling rooms, for timely joys, to be cultured

but, I love the legacy cultural hold and bond to be cultured.

I, be the stream within my own soil , sky and air

live - not to surrender my being - myself: anywhere

I will bear, maneuver and brave, not to give in

not to give up - me and my source virtues in me.

I am still a deodar, keep no little value to be

grow - sure and slow in the rocky terrains: am a tree.

Market cuts to size to be a plank and then a panel fixture:

a timely cheerful camp, but soon into wilderness future -

can a camp be an elated home to get progress to see -

I can camp anywhere on globe, but my home it can't be -

can one be a commercial commodity and be happy

my joy is economic well-being and bond of ancestry.

Call me obstinate and call me names full

I keep bonds and inklings that you call, still.

your vision may be oceans and outlook for a sea

I am happy and gleeful to be a stream and a tree.

arvind shah