Somanathan Iyer Poems

Calamities caused by nature
Limits its impact for few years
Destruction caused by humans
Leaves its impact for times unknown
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Peeping back through my memories by decades four that have gone by
An incident that almost stopped my heart beat with fear
Escaping unhurt from the jaws of a certain death
Still I feel a shiver all over when I recollect that incident
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Defined are hostilities between two enemies
In peculiar and exaggerated ways by elders
A fresh and green blade of grass
Thrown between the hostile two
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Empty sky nothing to worry
Empty pocket something to worry
Empty brain everything to worry!
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Cry not any one when I breathe my last
For my exit deserves a tear-less farewell
This world I came with lots of hopes
The life I craved for like any other soul
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Time waits for no one
But we wait for positive times
Tide waits for no time
But we wait to tide it over
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Prolonged prayers procedural rituals
ridiculed by many who claim a clean heart
by remaining captives of desires and hatred
knowing not that a clean heart treats all lives alike
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Dejection peeps out when things go awry
Frustration surfaces when failures galore
Depression sets in when mind finds no solutions
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We grow in stature by
erasing our mistakes
An eraser loses its life
for erasing our mistakes
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After coming into existence through evolution
Mankind got power to think from Nature’s devolution
Faced everything initially in utter confusion
Realized later that they are under illusion
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