Sedona - Land of Gods

by Madathil Rajendran Nair



Sedona Ethereal celestial land Of red rock mountains Vermilion on the plains Of Arizona’s forehead You have me seduced Charmed and bewitched With the golden sun Rising and sinking In your curvaceous folds Like a lover in eternal thrall Your hills are a pantheon Of unfinished visages Of Gods no one knows Sculpted perhaps By wandering aliens Who left on some emergent errand Across infinite galactic spans To return some day with chisels in hand While the clouds and winds Bathe and wipe the gods With unflinching devotion Every turn of the seasons While the humming birds Hover and sing their praise Beating their wings prostrate Over paloverdes below Their boughs all yellow In silent veneration While alders, ashes and sycamores Stand motionless Peering their ears Yearning for the staccato Of ancient horse-hooves Of Apache Indians Speeding down the slopes For friendly rendezvous With their ever-loving spirits While a lonely desert quail Unseen in a bush Pours out her heart Dissolving at dusk Calling the ancient artisans to work Sedona You have me seduced You are the land of gods None other on earth can surpass The beauty of your mounts Oh aliens, whoever you are Come back to this blissful land And chisel out our future gods

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25-Mar-2014

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Comments on this Poem

After reading the poem I feel as if I am visiting the place. Nice description

Ramdas Menon
31-May-2014 12:44 PM

A beautiful writing !

shinojalex@gmail.com
29-Mar-2014 09:49 AM

Nice piece of Poetry.

truth seeker
28-Mar-2014 04:48 AM

Nice one Nairji. Worth mentioning it.

Murali Meleth
27-Mar-2014 06:11 AM

Thanks Rian and Kamal.

Kamal, it is imagined that the rocks of the Sedona mountains are shapes sculpted by aliens in the ancient past. Our current understanding is that they are geological formations. Perhaps, the area was once under the Pacific. However, most of the rocks look like human/animal figures. One can even see Lord Ganesha and other Gods of the Hindu pantheon in them! In the last two stanzas, the quail and the poet are calling out to those aliens to come back and finish their unfinished work.

madathilnair
26-Mar-2014 12:08 PM

Excellent poem. But didnt understand the last 2 verses.

Kamal
26-Mar-2014 10:23 AM

One word - fantastic!

Rian John
26-Mar-2014 09:19 AM