Image: detail from "Angad The Teacher" - an oil painting-in-progress by L.T.P.R.
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Angad's Gurmukhi
A Poem by MICHELE GIBSON
Angad saw the symbols
In random disarray
Images of phenomena in the apparent world
Script that ushers to the mind, reality
A mark for sorrow, a mark for war, a mark for lineage
Angad saw the symbols
He ordered and refined them
A palette for the poetry of Gurus
A medium for reverence
An opus for the people
A mark for One,
A mark for God -
The primary
And the perpetual,
Two human strokes and stylistic curves
Become the precedent,
From sheer propensity
Gurmukhi sings
Angad saw the symbols -
In service, in humility
The essence crafted the imagery he saw
The script and the scripture,
Emanate from God
January 3, 2010
Conversation about this article
1: Manbir Banwait (Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada), January 03, 2010, 11:08 PM.
Beauitful!
2: Gurbani Kaur (New Delhi, India), January 04, 2010, 11:49 AM.
You touch chords that no one else does. You seem to have the knack of piercing right into the heart of something. Now I understand why we revere Gurmukhi as being a sacred gift. Thank you!
3: Jessie (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), January 05, 2010, 5:19 PM.
You have put volumes into these few beautiful lines! Thank you ...
4: G. Singh (E.U.), February 13, 2010, 3:41 PM.
Thank you for posting an awesome poem.