Woman

We had this activity of writing a poem about women for last month’s Birthday Bash at work, which took on the theme of Women’s day.
Below is the poem I wrote.
Many a man’s success, many a nation’s demise
Bear the footprint of a woman, with virtue or vice.
Love of the mother, for life given,
Bond of the [...]

Ninaipathellam Nadanthuvittaal… if all thoughts become reality

If all your thoughts become reality, there is no God!
If you keep thinking about what already happened, there will never be peace of mind!
A concluded story does not continue in God’s books!
A continued story does not end, in a man’s house!
A heart with thousand gates, in it rise a thousand thoughts
Someone comes, someone goes… their comings and [...]

Read somewhere on the web…

“Fate served me meanly, but I looked at her and laughed,
That none might know how bitter was the cup I quaffed
Along came Joy and paused beside me where I sat,
Saying, ‘I came to see what you were laughing at.’”

No escape?

Blind and weathered, the old man sat
composing hymns, not caring for a mat
Feel he did, his lord’s presence near
listening to his song with a tear
Tried he did, to behold truth by his hands
waving his arms like wind across lands
Better he would have done, to catch smoke from a fire
for the lord disappeared every time [...]

Patience

Life never moves at our pace
either too fast or too slow
Fury wind in the face
or oxen with a plow
Nothing is too soon
nothing too late
When time and luck meet
people call if fate
As pebbles form from rocks
shaped by the flowing water
should we be in facing life
with patience now and after
For the one who waits
good things come
For the [...]