The miracle that was
\nMakaibari
\nTook on an exciting turn
\nA realization
\nA philosophy of existence
\nSo as to learn
\nAn undeniable positive
\nWhat may have appeared a dream
\nIn the mind of a giant
\nWith an enduring stream
\nThat became indestructible
\nof a tangible regard
\nTo breathe life into growing tea
\nDespite it being hard<\/p>\n
The area in India
\nFamed for growing tea
\nBut on a scale of production
\nWithout reality
\nWithout a true conviction
\nFor the soil and what it was
\nHow Nature set environments
\nReally just because<\/p>\n
There was more to life
\nThan profits
\nAnd the balance sheet
\nBecause
\nSustainable production
\nReally and truthfully was
\nThe keystone a perpetual
\nAnd genuine concern
\nOf replenishing the earth
\nEach cycle and to learn<\/p>\n
Erosion and pollution
\nAnd a disregard for where
\nGrowing takes place miraculously
\nThe bounty for to share
\nWe each have our nirvana
\nAnd some create it where
\nEssentially there is a target
\nSomehow to compare<\/p>\n
Rajah was a visionary
\nInstinctively he knew
\nDeep-Rooted in his psyche
\nCharacteristically so true
\nIndicative and unchanging
\nTranscending Time and space
\nThe biodynamic principles
\nGiving fortuitous grace<\/p>\n
Improving the conditions
\nThe crucial moment when
\nChanges became critical
\nAnd advisable and then
\nThe connectedness of being
\nThe homogeneity
\nThe total interconnection
\nAnd collaterality<\/p>\n
His studies took him forward
\nBy example he would see
\nRudolf Steiner’s wisdom
\nWould be just the thing for tea
\nA haven in the making
\nAn idyll at its root
\nThe wildness in perspective
\nClearly it did suit<\/p>\n
Detached and unconnected
\nFrom the normal methods he
\nApplied the magical formula’s
\nAll done proportionately
\nAnd observed the woven interchange
\nAnd just how it could be
\nIt was the work of genius
\nThe equivalence of how
\nTo see a world of difference
\nHis antidote for now<\/p>\n
Peculiarly out of the box
\nAn eccentricity
\nThe real thing in a nutshell
\nInnovative it be
\nInventive archetypal pioneering
\nOne might say
\nUncopied and atypical
\nOf the growing of the day<\/p>\n
He taught all by example
\nRespect earned by the hour
\nHe created his own matrix
\nAnd born out of each shower
\nHe saw the fruits of labouring
\nUnder an Indian sun
\nHe watched his people growing
\nMore than others had done<\/p>\n
At altitude the weather
\nCreates a climate where
\nThe soil the plants the wildness
\nWhere every soul may share
\nThe spirit of Makaibari
\nWith its suitability
\nTo wild plants herbs
\nAnd ofcourse the tea
\nPure synchronicity<\/p>\n
To compare the conventional
\nGardens
\nTo Makaibari you
\nWould have to go and see them
\nTouch the earth see through
\nThe advertising brochures
\nUse ones eyes and see
\nThe wild expanse of freedom
\nAnd naturality<\/p>\n
See the vivid colours
\nEvery shade and hue
\nSee the flocks of coloured birds
\nAnd the trees that grow there too
\nThe neem provides its medicine
\nThere is never need for spray
\nAll growing is compatible
\nWith the goddess and her way<\/p>\n
Rajah he was generous
\nHe walked his talk and we
\nPlaced him on a zenith
\nOf excellence for he
\nEarned respect and got it
\nA champion in fact
\nA quiet man always studious
\nUnequalled and intact<\/p>\n
A man of great integrity
\nAnd self sufficiency
\nAdopting all the principles
\nOf biodiversity
\nCreating a growing family
\nOf people around him who
\nGained his respect and loyalty
\nLike so very few<\/p>\n
I met the ex king of Sikkim
\nWhen I visited I
\nStayed in Rajah’s house with him
\nAble to see the sky
\nThe wild flowers in abundance
\nThe jungle and the plant
\nI met the rangers and the people
\nAnd actuall I can’t<\/p>\n
Forget nor would I want to
\nThe provenance I saw
\nThe embryo that had flourished
\nWhere less ofcourse was more
\nMethane piped through the village
\nEach family with a cow
\nProviding milk and methane
\nEnergy thats how<\/p>\n
Villagers all growing
\nTheir salad plants the soil
\nRich and blessed with insect life
\nAll ready to toil
\nTo share the fruits of nature
\nTo be healthy to be true
\nTo be caught up in the aura
\nOf Makaibari who<\/p>\n
Encapsulated everything
\nA comprehensiveness
\nAll embracing and loving
\nWho would want for less
\nEach shared the independence
\nThe uniqueness of the place
\nThe truest solidarity
\nAll working at a pace<\/p>\n
For me a neverendingness
\nThe poets words could flow
\nEternity was in the garden
\nWhere the tea plants grow
\nWhere the ladies picking tea were
\nAll their fingers fine
\nUnchanging and unfading
\nWearing sari’s on the line<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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