Fame-Virtue Only Stand Firm Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

Life flies fleeting in this transient world,
Youth goes, goes wealth— a migrating bird,
Not for long son, nor wife,
Nor yet family life,
Fame stays, stays virtue too un-bestirred.
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Words well said | 02.11.14 |
It is generally believed that limericks are lewd and tend to be ludicrous. If not, they are light verses of leg-pulling type and often are a rollicking great humour. While this may be true in some cases, even considering their origin, it need not be so. I have made here humble attempt to lift the status of limericks somewhat. I feel they provide a compact structure to express a serious thought in a lighter tone.

A limerick structure as we know is of five lines, but we can also make it a one and a half limerick, or even a double one if need be. There also is some scope for certain variations in its structure.

In this collection I have tried them as verses that are thought-provoking. Some of them are based on Sanskrit Subhaashitanis
(Words well said) , but are not direct translations. The underlying tone is often humorous to bring home the point.