#DreamtOfRamanaMaharishi

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