Is Love Eternal ? Poem by Bharati Nayak

Is Love Eternal ?

Rating: 4.2


Is Love eternal?
Sometimes I doubt it
When your memories do not come to me
As often as it used to be.

Has someone else
Occupied your place?
Then suddenly
I feel you by a familiar scent
Coming from a nearby tube-rose
Or a whiff from mango blossoms

I feel you
When a cuckoo cooes
From a distance
Or a hovering cloud wets me
in sudden showers.

Fond memories fill me
Every time I sit on a rickshaw
I feel as if you are on your cycle
And looking at me through a side glance.

How wonderful that
In thousand things
I find you
A familiar shirt worn
By an unknown person
A piece of film dialogue
A joke, a laughter,
A smile, a tear
A grass lawn,
Bhawans Journal or film Devdas
Yes, yes- - in so many things
I find you.
Then why I doubt on
the permanence of love?

Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Topic(s) of this poem: love,memories
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kumarmani Mahakul 06 November 2019

Part - 2 me / As often as it used to be. /....Has someone else / Occupied your place? Here love may be called ephemeral. When lover or beloved remains closer to each other without any doubts Love may be called eternal or permanent. I want to cite here...How wonderful that / In thousand things / I find you / A familiar shirt worn /

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Bharati Nayak 07 November 2019

Thank you Sir Kumarmani Mahakul for your wonderful review of this poem. Love may be present without one being aware of it or consciously feeling it. I am glad that this poem draws great poets here for a discourse on the topic 'Love'

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Kumarmani Mahakul 31 October 2019

, I feel you When a cuckoo cooes From a distance Or a hovering cloud wets me in sudden showers...........touching expression with insightful imaginary. A brilliant poem on love is astutely delineated. Thanks for sharing.

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Bharati Nayak 31 October 2019

Thank you Sir Kumarmani Mahakul for your wonderful comment.

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Valsa George 31 October 2019

Memories of the loved one can sneak in any time. If love is real, memories will linger and each time one sees something used by the loved one, old scenes will flash before our eyes creating waves of excitement. It is not necessary that we should think of the loved one all the time. Though such thoughts may lie dormant for sometime, it doesn't mean that love has died out! Beautifully put!

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In thousand things I find you....Then why I doubt on the permanence of love.. Yes dear sister Bharti, love in its strict sense is eternal. In case of a love not eternal is not love. You can call it by some other names. It's a meaningful piece of poem deserving a full 10

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Edward Kofi Louis 14 November 2019

Memories! ! ! In sudden showers of love and art. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Glen Kappy 08 November 2019

hi, bharati! i hope this finds you well. with some time this morning, i came to see if you'd posted anything new and found this one. to your question, i immediately think, of course, convinced that God is love, and God eternal. as to the type of love in your poem, i note you begin with what is summoned by smell, that most primal of senses. then sound and touch. then sight, dominant for so many of us. your poem highlights the importance remembering can have for us. -glen

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opoet me poet 06 November 2019

I would like to read your reply to SIR KM'S three pointed note Then I shall apply my mind ma'am

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Kumarmani Mahakul 06 November 2019

Part - 3 By an unknown person / A piece of film dialogue/ A joke, a laughter, / A smile, a tear / A grass lawn, / Yes, yes- - in so many things / I find you. / Then why I doubt on / the permanence of love? / Dear madam, you have brought here a brilliant poem regarding Love with an impressive inscription. Full vote. Thank you again.

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