R is for Rann of Kutchch #atozchallenge

I came across quietude
yesterday.
A few times actually.
It was Q day, you see.

Quiet
Hmmm...
I thought
I haven't been that
from A till now.

Maybe, it's time.
Perhaps a pause, I thought
A bit of quietude
is what I need before
S follows R
tomorrow.

Come in silence
in your own quietude
and walk or stroll or wander
beside me.
I like your company
when I'm quiet
and you are too.
Silence speaks an ancient tongue
one you speak
the one I infer
without ever uttering a word.

So come.
to these silent salts of Kutchch.

Where a smile, a nod is enough.

Sun sets us alight 

Golden and bright

While he goes off

after kissing Earth.

I'm sure he can taste the salt on his lips.

  

They are warm and proud
and hardworking too--
The people of Kutchch
who give you free rides
and call you behen (sister)
even though you're a tourist
and this is their tourist season.

An extract from The Essential Rumi

by

Coleman Barks

Wean Yourself

Think how it is to have a conversation with an embryo.

You might say, "The world outside is vast and intricate.

There are wheatfields and mountain passes,

and orchards in bloom.

At night there are millions of galaxies, and in sunlight

the beauty of friends dancing at a wedding."

You ask the embryo why he, she, stays cooped up

in the dark with eyes closed.

Listen to the answer.

There is no "other world."

I only know what I've experienced.

You must be hallucinating.

*****

Stay safe and relish the silence

till we meet again:)