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Mithasini’s ode to nature
View(s):Young writer Mithasini Ratnayake was a winner in the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society Youth Wing’s ‘Converse to Conserve’ poetry competition ( senior category) held recently. Published here is her winning entry:
oh,
take me to the untamed…
sacred lands,
untouched for civilizations
or so
where you barely encapsulate
the subtle secrets of
silverton trees,
and the woeful whispers of the
warm winds.
Willowy woods,
where infinite arches
of entwined branches
reach out, aching to touch one another
and humbled tree trunks lie,
waiting to be noticed.
Where in
bounteous bodies of
golden water,
mud massages
the soles of your callow feet
and a temptatious thirst,
one you never knew existed within you
is ever so palatably
quenched
where in
the heart of the frenzied forests
the carefree cry of an
innocent fawn
makes you wish
civilization never impeded
with the untamed at all