Only I Want Poem by Gajanan Mishra

Gajanan Mishra

Gajanan Mishra

Tikapali, Patnagarh, Balangir, Odisha, India now at Tapobana, Titilagarh, Odisha, India
Gajanan Mishra
Tikapali, Patnagarh, Balangir, Odisha, India now at Tapobana, Titilagarh, Odisha, India

Only I Want

Rating: 3.8


Only I want
Only I want food and water
That are necessary
To fill up my belly
For my sustenance, my dear.

Only I want
Only I want a piece of cloth
To cover my naked body
And I want a shelter
To save myself from sun and rain.

I want knowledge
Knowledge of self
For a healthy living
And to love and to reach at Truth.

Thursday, May 29, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: desire
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Tim Kitchin 29 May 2014

I like the spirituality a lot. Not quite sure why you didn't echo the 'Only I want' line in the third verse to keep the structure. Also I wondered why you wanted knowledge... The strength of the poem is in questing knowledge with subsistence. I would have liked to have felt the pain and hunger a little more. Also 'Only I want' is ambiguous in English implying isolation of the 'I' -i..e I am the only one who wants... Bringing that ambiguity out, or at least the loneliness behind it would be very powerful. Will spend a lot more time on this forum in the days ahead, listening and learning. Thanks for very your direct contributions, Gajanan.

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The poet's contribution of more than ten thousand poems is a great start in the poem world and in this poem hunter com. which I watched with interest. This particular poem is a good one and have a say to the society the conditioned mind of a poor whose contentment of life is through getting a peace of cloth and bearest minimum necessities of life that is the food for sustenance. He stands for the perfect knowledge and truth which makes it a great poem and I loves it.

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Gajanan Mishra

Gajanan Mishra

Tikapali, Patnagarh, Balangir, Odisha, India now at Tapobana, Titilagarh, Odisha, India
Gajanan Mishra
Tikapali, Patnagarh, Balangir, Odisha, India now at Tapobana, Titilagarh, Odisha, India
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