Dr. Tulsi Hanumanthu Poems

This midnight bids farewell to parting year
Who then, on chariot Time, his seat vacates.
The New Year succeeds him as Charioteer:
To drive us on, he's waiting at our gates.
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Peace, Be Not Proud (A Reverse Davidian)

Evasive Peace, be not proud
That world's entire wealth can't purchase you.
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Happiness perhaps once had features
Of a single, compact whole,
But countless are the craving creatures
Praying God some bliss to dole.
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Never Say Die (A Rondeau in Pentametre)

Never say die though hardships hound your head:
They come not singly, has it not been said?
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The Butterfly and the Lark (Shakespearan Sonnet)

Much like a painted picture taken flight,
With wings wearing yellows, pinks and blues,
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CANINE FELINE FRIENDSHIP – PART I

Once our tom-cat brought to our house,
As honoured guest, his feline spouse.
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To the New Year

If Life be a Sea and your are a Wave,
O kind New Year, will you not save
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Canine Feline Friendship - Part II
(This poem was composed in 1995. My dearest Julie is now no more)

Meanwhile came our jet-black Julie -
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Facing Death

'O hoary Age, of fear you bear no trace,
Though dreadful Death you soon will have to face:
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Marvellous Man (A Rondeau in Pentametre)

O Marv'llous man, what else can equal you
In brawn of brain? The wondrous things you do
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