All planets spin anti clockwise
As they revolve in their orbits
And this is immutable because
Of the eternal gravitic laws.
And anti clockwise on their axes
They all rotate except for the captious
Uranus, that, lying on its side, rotates,
And maverick Venus, who abrogates
Its responsibility, unafraid,
And as the slowest of planets, Retrograde
It rotates on its axis!
GB
RIFT
Sixty million years ago
Inexorable, though slow
India’s continental plate crossed
The ancient Tethys sea
To collide with the Asian landmass.
An oceanic plate would have slid below
a continental one
But both these were continents, and so
The hard edges folded up forming the mighty Himalayan range.
Earthquakes still occur here, causing geologists to wonder,
Whether the rift will split again, under….
The plateau of Tibet….
GB
How cheerfully the warbler chirps
As she rebuilds her storm-torn nest..
Is it because I’m human
That I am obsessed
With permanence?
GB
Lava path- Arenal, Costa Rica
A raging red-hot river had run down
From Arenal’s tall crater-crown…
Now where this lava had once flowed
We walk up the tree-lined, grey-dust road…
GB
I have reached the lofty seniors’plateau
And have paused to look back
I see behind me what I once thought
Was a thorny, difficult track.
The craggy hills seem shorter now,
The deep valleys smooth and greener
Has the world grown much smaller
Or my vision grown sharper, keener,
To focus on the grandeur of life
Instead of vicissitudes of petty, daily strife?
GB
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