VEILED MOON

 

Some denounced, some defended,

Unending arguments are rendered,

Some poets used it as a metaphor,

Faces behind veils left many in a stupor.

Poetic fancy for stubbornly romantics,

The pace of their heart became so frantic,

Restless eyes look for 'moon' behind 'clouds',

Face of "Noor Jahan", in it mystery shrouds.

Those times when 'ghazals' were composed,

For veiled beauties with faces not exposed,

Hidden, still were seen through mind's eye,

That pierced the veil, made them emit sigh.

Vacillating between veiling and revealing,

The faces are caught in the battle of feelings,

Controversy has replaced curiosity,

High velocity drama giving birth to animosity.

To veil or reveal is sole choice of faces,

Let us respect face's personal spaces,

Let veils stay in fantasy and poetry,

Allow life to flow in rhythm & in symmetry.

(c) K. Radhakrishnan