NAKED NATURE
A. PADMANABAN
With all doors and windows wide open
With the soothing breeze wafting along
With the aroma of fresh flowers scenting the scene
With the gay garden and the gyrating plants
doing delightful dance .
With the dear company of guileless poets around me,
Let me live in a hut amidst verdure and Nature.
Let not concrete cubicle confine me
Let not closed doors cloister me
Let not shuttered windows stifle me
Allow me, my Lord, to see and enjoy Nature
in its form, true and wholesome,
Let its soft and cool breeze surround me
Let its verdant vitality invigorate me,
Let me see Nature in its nakedness,
it is pure beauty,
and in its pristine glory.