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A shiny new movie camera I acquired

Brief sojourn to the Kumaon hills

Enough cash in wallet- cards to pay my bills

Long, comfortable railway train to Kathgodam

For my concrete cage back home I cared a damn

Winded up snaky hill roads to Nainital Lake

The sight - a feast for the mind to partake

Clean, clear blue lake, light blue the sky

The sight was such that I thought I could fly

Cottage atop the hill, comfy, cool and bright

I looked out of the window- savoured the air so light

There wasn't any way I could hold my delight

Picked out the movie cam to hold the view

Lofty pine trees................. beauty of nature !

Hope for life returned - I again looked to a future

Bounced around the hill town its beauty began to capture

The movie cam I patted lovingly strolling through untamed wild

Hiking through the hills, lush green bushes

Forgot all about the steamy smoking buses

My moviecam was happy! I was happier!!

Imprisoning the lovely scenery, mountains, greenery, birds, people

I fancied I saw a distant form resembling a church steeple

Wandered high up to Ranikhet Tourist Lodge

No way I could make myself nature dodge

Wild life sanctuary sans all glitter

Heavenly pine cones I percieved tha street to litter

If they were swept clean, would it be better?

I bent down in reverence- knelt, picked up a cone

The sun shone happily- i was in nature's home

Vagrant trees- tall, majestic, unkempt- yet pretty

Sights I tasted with pleasure & glimpsed into nature's kitty

Sad I became- the moviecam couldn't catch the scent

Of the pine trees, cones, fresh breeze- into the pictures they went!

© Bishwanath Mukherjee