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THE ORIENTAL MYSTIQUE: a sonnetEntry #423900
THE ORIENTAL MYSTIQUE: a sonnet


What's the so called oriental mystique?
What mental images does the East bring?
Is it the black magic and the rope trick?
Or, the elephant, or, the jungle king?

Is it the half clad monk, with shaven head?
Women in veil, too shy to show their face?
Children, who starve simply for lack of bread?
Queens attired in pure silk and golden lace?

East is all this but in reality,
It is a way of life, cultural prism,
Which is steeped in spirituality,
Away from outward materialism.

That East is East and West is West was said
By Kipling in true earnest, not in jest.




* Rudyard Kipling’s The Ballad of the East and West: Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently ...

www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/1457/poem3.htm



• Related poems:

"EAST IS EAST AND WEST IS WEST" 
"WHEN I THINK OF ENGLAND" 


M C Gupta
6 May 2006

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