Aniruddha Pathak Poems

If what ye love renders much of pain,
A lesson for life let this remain:
Forget love if pain's prime,
If love's prime then pain's crime
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A story this of how Life proposes,
But Death is it that always disposes.
A king once dreamt a pre-dawn weird dream—
A forewarning— Death lives a life so rife,
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Things easy to beget
Earn no man's fair respect.
Leaving aside one's own,
Man's known alien wife prone.
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O Son of Pritha,
When cravings all of worldly kind
Ridded are from man's mundane mind,
Content one feels when in his Self,
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Reading tomes of wisdom world vies,
Getting for it none any wise,
Truth of love's-letters-four that toes,
Wisdom of what matters he knows.
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Green getting so lush
Birds in welcome sing from bush,
Leaves listen in hush.
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Vain is to ocean a rainfall,
Vain, food to him filled to the full,
Charity to one wanting none,
Vain as lamp to radiant sun!
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(A poetic translation of a story by Rabindranath Tagore, kśhdhārto pāśhāņa, Hungry Stones, for convenience split in 13 parts) . It is set in blank verse with stanzas that rhymed in between.


IV
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O Auspicious One,
As spoken I've awhile ere,
Subtle and moving in no straight line,
The path of Dharma hard is to divine,
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It's body that suffers and the mind,
But thou art the soul never inclined,
Father and thou art one,
Rejoice, O heaven's son.
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