With Apology

With Apology

P K Routray

Rose Milligan, Hey poetess par excellence!

to you from my heart’s abyss adoration and reverence.

Readers are deliberating on your deed and mood

when “ Dust if you must” compose you could.

Was it during your household chore or looking at a helicopter

smoking the sky with sound carrying for war weapons and armor?

I venture here to dent at it with my thought

after browsing net on its interpretation a lot.

Dustings have dual meanings as dictionaries say

Dusting and removing the dust, both the word does imply.

You have left your mortal body silent to clarify

but at your immortal works wises continue to vie.

Naive is my interpretation that may draw brickbat

the more will be my joy, the more blood if oozes out from beneath my hat.

Dusting is the pollution you meant, in my opinion

that man creates, trying to improve upon the Lord’s creation.

Perhaps Madam! You were too much worried

“One day under man’s greedy inventions creation would be buried.”

Your poem touched at the nature and man’s artistic power

to live the short life enjoying it with a morale character.

Nowhere in the poem have you eulogized the man’s invention

perhaps you could perceive the nan’s greed and his pollution.

Adding a but after your “Dust if you must” you have a words of caution

“Man should cease challenging His creation with a plea to improve upon.

The Lord is the master creator and creates with perfection

we dust it by creating pollutants under the guise of invention.”

( N . B  On Rose Miligan’s poem “ Dust if you must’” )