By V. Shruti Devi (quill-o-the-wisp)
I wish i could recall the trick
For how to write a limerick
A simple feat,
one could tap into the beat,
and google would solve the mystery quite soon
(i’ve done it before, a syntactic score
of minor import
in the larger picture, no doubt)
But a simple rhyme
ought to suffice this time
-twixt this era and another divine.
Woke up to a near-holler-heard:
“Do you know a Monk!”
(ah, that bottle of dark rum of the said nomenclature
that was a part of the previous day’s caricature resurrected
as such) (and one returns here to clarify that one hadn't imbibed any, so that wasn't why!)
But what was a bit much
To comprehend
Was the visage of a monk-like
Or, rather, sage-like persona
That came into focus without any hocus-pocus
Followed by the visual of a yantra
You know, a diagram of the holy sort
All authentic, with a dot and what-not.
Just researched images of saints and monks
And believe it or not, the funk
-It was the face of Ramana Maharishi
(one barely recalls the names of individual saints and
suchlike
So the coincidence was not entirely trite)
And the bio says born on 30/12 (just like me)
Though neither of us uses linkedin much as of yet
the right-hand felt the stirring of an
electro-magnet
