O purling brook! How many twists you took
Flowing through the green forest to the east
O beautiful damsel! how slender is your waist
How can a painter or a poet your beauty overlook
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| Purling brook |
What do you carry reflecting God's beautiful taste
To poet's eyes you are a cute fan running in haste
In your run lies your beauty that by a rich poem traced
pictures fill the eyes but pictures by time's hand erased
O purling brook! How many twists you took
How many sharp rocks have kissed your waist
How many glens and ferns have you crossed
O purling brook you have the gentle lamb's look
you are a shining jewel on the green forest cover
The rhythm of this poem your beauty gonna discover
2. Strangers
Not all strangers bring us dangers
All Friends aren't plain but different trends
Most friends have invisible bends
in minds, don't have blind faith all friends
Many friends can't cross jealousy
you know that jealousy is dangerous sea
jealousy hinders friendship's flow
that make your friend sick and low
Plain hearted friends are few
How can you say who is who
Not all strangers bring us dangers
fake friends are worse than beggars
Best friends are emperors add to heart's rhyme
3.Tomorrow
Between our hearts there is a smooth thread
You heart can't feel it when your head is dead
why are you so cold like a desert night
You are not too old to love, love is always right
Love makes life bright, love is life's right
Being loved is the beauty of life, stop the fight
When love commands life sleep in love's lap
Love is not a trap embrace love without gap
Walk into brighter tomorrow holding his hand
If walk hand in hand time can't you command
The path of love stretches long and thin
baulk not and go along you can life win
4. Sleep
O God of sleep hypnos!
Sitting on broken branches of thoughts
why are you watching the buzzing flies
Listen to what aching heart exhorts
Watch how the betrayed heart's cries
My mind is high jacked by serious doubts
and hopes of heart are still early sprouts
My fears wander in unknown jungle routes
and I stumble on my slumber in self disputes
O hypnos come and embrace me
please give me perfect sleep's key
A sudden chill caused dark impression
and pushed me into a terrible depression
O hypnos come and embrace me
please give me perfect sleep's key
5. Beauty of life
Black or white is not your sin
I don't hate the color of the skin
man or woman beauty lies within
that with beautiful thoughts begin
Figure without vigor is sickening
love grows with understanding
understanding begins with thinking
without that relations keep limping
what avail is currency without courtesy
without love and kindness you're at sea
Look at beauty's root don't be a bruit
Only then can you taste the life's fruit
you know beauty goes with age
consider life a sacred pilgrimage
6. Empty
Remember one day the earth will be empty
of you and me. Let's now celebrate it with tea
I know a few true friends of mine are kind
I am sure nothing about me they will find
interesting or worth keeping once I left
my memories will not leave them bereft
I have no children except books
they built wall and stopped people's looks
My name and fame bring me close to TV lens
but they build around me thick tall fence
I am happy with my verse and rhyme
but my rhyme splits me from my time
I shall take along with me the guilt
My time is up and no hope can be built.
7. Message
I walked on the beach watching waves
I shouted in delight in heart's caves
the weather is cool but the water is warm
I enjoyed the clam blue sea's charm
I crossed plains and climbed huge hills
The undulating hills are nature's frills
I played with birds and squirrels
they are lovely unforgettable thrills
I walked in the crowded alleys,
I ran in the sprawling valleys
people reminded me of my age
but I'm in search of God's message
8.Dancer
I dance with glee singing soft and free
what dances in me is the beautiful poetry
Each theme rich, beautiful feelings fetch
but at times touch sorrowful feelings much
I sometimes sing melodious tunes of my soul
what happens is my mind goes out of control
the words and phrases look like latin and Greek
but the flow of the poem is soft like a creek
with archaic words it looks an antique
the themes and motifs make it mystique
The beautiful words my mind seize
I sing the poems in the cool breeze
Many people who stand around often wonder
I know that it is no wonder but God's splendor
9.The Guardian
There is a guardian. There is a flower
without the guardian. There is no flower
your deep love came like a shower
Love is the shower love is the power
The flower got wet and became a nut
who wants the nut who eats the bitter nut
No one wants its now the nut needs growth
The tiny nut prayed for the growth , took a firm oath
The sun gave light the guardian gave faith
the tiny nut early and late took the sun bathe
the tiny nut became a big sweet fruit
who is the fruit who kept guard give your thought
10. Bless me
Bless me with riches but first with honesty
for without honesty there is no gravity
unchanging honesty is the greatest grace
without honesty I wander in outer space
Bless me with glamour but first good culture
Or I will be a prey to some foreign vulture
Ah! I don't have the greed of glamour
of any foreign land. I don't need a manor
by robbing my neighbour in any manner
I need no glory than my country's banner
Let there be true belief in the knowledge
for nation's relief pledge to sit on its edge
Let my language be my ornament
Let mother tongue be my sentiment.
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