Signature Wit #3 - Short Poems & Snippets
The core idea to have this blog was to publish my poems. There came a time when I ceased writing them, may be I ran out of ideas or I really lost the knack of doing that - I am not sure. But it never completely eluded me, I kept writing short snippets now and then so, even though there was discontinuity but the connection was not lost.
Here is a collection of few of them, some are my own and others are something that I have picked up because I really liked them.
Arabian Nights Intro
Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam
Where they cut off your ear
If they don't like your face
It's barbaric, but hey, it's home
When the wind's from the east
And the sun's from the west
And the sand in the glass is right
Come on down
Stop on by
Hop a carpet and fly
To another Arabian night
On Love - By Kabir
प्रीत न कीजिये पंछी जैसी, जल सूखे उड जाय!
प्रीत तो कीजिये मछली जैसी, जल सूखे मर जाय!
प्रीत तो कीजिये मछली जैसी, जल सूखे मर जाय!
Translation -
Don't let your love be like that of a bird which flies away when the water gets dried.
Let your love be like a fish that dies when water dries.
Quatrain 1
"Men",
said the Devil,
"Are kind to
their brothers."
"They don't
want to mend
their own ways, but
each other's."
Quatrain 2
It's no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest
It's no secret
ambition bites the nails of success
Every artist is a
cannibal, every poet is a thief
All kill their
inspiration and sing about the grief
Additions to Tolkien's Misty Mountains
Far beneath the
lonely mountain steep
From jeweled throne
to iron keep
Our Brothers sang as
hammers rang
When will our people
cease to weep
The dragon stirs in
the gloom
He takes to wing to
meet his doom
The bowman’s dart
flies to its mark
The worm falls deep
in waters dark
SALE
A
SALE is such a funny thing
It
brightens up your face
You
smile at them, they laugh at you
so
you buy one but you've paid for two!
Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd?
- Alexander Pope
World UFO Day (July 2nd)
Cloudless sky on a moonlit night
Filled with stars shining brightLook carefully between their twinkle
Waving at you is your alien uncle!
SALE and World UFO Day are written by me, remaining all are borrowed.
As I swim through the valley of my notes and find anything worth this page, then it will be copy pasted here.
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