The   Idyllic abyss 

[the grand canyon effect]2018

   Oh! on my maiden trip to America, I was on cloud nine,

   All  I had learnt and heard is from the print and net

   Vast country that proudly claiming many a time zone,

   Initial lessons cast my psyche an everlasting imprint.

 

   One of my sojourn was a trip to the mountain pass,

   Grand Canyon, they told me, I just gave a deaf ear,

   May be my idiocy, I thought its just another to pass ,

   The curtain raiser, the show, that made me peer .

 

   The word meaning told me it’s a deep mountain pass

   Often a river dividing the pass, here it’s the Colarado

   Millions of years of erosive effort to carve an abyss

   History dates back, Colarado carving this ravine too,

 

   Three hundred miles long, a mammoth one, unimaginable 

   All eighteen miles in width, indeed six thousand feet high

   Layers of sedimentary rocks bemusing even the venerable,-

   Geologist’s paradise, a never ending practical precipice,

 

   The Colorado plateau, the conducive winds, river water,

   Collectively reforming a visual breath taking spectacle,

   Lava turning the sediments, metamorphosis within crater,

   The magmas flowing from under the rocks’ receptacle ,

 

  The melt, the minerals and the gases alter the texture,

  Cooled to form  the granites, the limestone phenomenon,

  The proterozoic era, saw the mountain building nature

  Lifting and erosions did the rest, to form a  rare canyon,

 

  Mezozoic era, reigned the canyon area with  dinosaurs

  Lost out  in the cinozoic era when mammals took over

  Volcanic turbulence, the snow cutting and dry weathers  

  Acted to convert  into a breathtaking spectacle forever.

 

 Violent storms and flash floods, fast downcuts in the rocks

  Combined with slow widening, truly natures’ fascination

  Lack of moisture refines the naked rock’s added stocks,

 The red wall lime stones and the sandstone, sans erosion

 

 Chiseling the older crystalline rocks into the  granite rocks, 

 The pleasant bus drives enabling the breath taking delight,

 The enthralling helicopter, the astonishing view in stocks,

 This idyllic abyss, stands apart, beholds one and all in sight.