The Taj Mahal:
- Beauty repairs:
- How to embrace such
a monstrously beautiful thing?
- A Mughal Princess
and her Mughal King
- Worldy woman, man;
Power, Romantic love; Poverty,
- Violent autocracy
- Where gods drive,
dictators determine.
-
- The sky's insidious
filter
- And the cobwebs
scaffolding on the Northern towers
- Sadden her
countenance.
- The glazed
alabaster sheen of white marble
- Tainted for me by
both.
- Moved, but barely
moved, moral but barely moral.
- I hear my voice
sing and, sadly, another voice, another time.
-
- There is little
reason nor rhyme.
- Tell me, what's
sublime?
- Where humanity
pours into every crack
- And this great,
extravagant edifice stands?
- Hawkers and beggars
clamoured as we entered
- And now as we leave.
- I am overcome; I
love it,
- But it is not my
world.
Bob
Smith, Thursday 10th January 2002
