Taken in November of 2017 in Rishikesh
DAILY PHOTO: Ganga River at Rishikesh
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DAILY PHOTO: Kameng River at Dusk
DAILY PHOTO: Darbhanga Ghat at Dawn
Taken in October of 2015 in Varanasi (Benares)
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DAILY PHOTO: Across the Ganges, Rishikesh
DAILY PHOTO: The River’s Bend
DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Ganga Aarti at Triveni Ghat
POEM: River to Sea
The river twists through a barren landscape.
Filling with flotsam, detritus, and silt,
dragging death downstream,
it will pour into a bright, blue sea.
You should savor that scene,
but your view is from above,
and so you see a shit-colored plume
splaying into the clear, calm waters.
And you fear the shit stain
will spread across the sea.
But it doesn’t.
It seems to settle.
You never knew the clear and calm could
subdue those murky, mucky waters.
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POEM: Sacred River
Sitting on the ghat,
folded legs
&
spine straight.
Gazing at the flowing river,
&
thinking that sacred waters
must answer sacred questions.
But they recoil from the answer.
From being shown that they are the river–
a river which forgets that which happened,
while remembering events that never did.
They crave a gift of clarity.
But the only path to understanding
is a backwards plunge into an abyss
in a moment of sacrificial madness.
