TD. Kumar Poems

Many times tough can be very soft
Like mother's slap when some serious mistake is done
Like the healing knife of a surgeon
Tough is the protection and strengthening rib of soft
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Should our equanimity and other basic values be conditional?
Or independent of other's behavior and circumstances; be unconditional
And elderly man after bathing in the Ganges saved scorpion from drowning
It bit him and fell into the river; the man saved it again and again from drowning.
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Are two key components of achievement and change
Both are important, are necessary and complimentary
But we mostly' latch on' to one treating the other as adversary.

normal view is that larger the resources larger the achievement
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The man who single handle dismantled the bleeding cold war
Shading Afghanistan, Eastern Europe and the Central Republics and downing the Berlin Wall
The man who surrendered a part of his empire for world peace
The great Gorvachov gave a new lease to world peace
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There is Grandeur in anonymity
Nameless celebrity
Sans name and individual personal biography
It is still part of oceanic universality.
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Love is mostly Loveless
Corrupted by the desire to possess
A great deal of suffering when the 'object' is missing
By separation, divorce and death's fatal sting!
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Sense name, forms, attribute, paradigm and concept
You are left with nothing, a zero, non existent and unmanifest!
It is ‘Shoonyataa' of Buddha and ‘Nirvikalp Samaadhi' of yoga
After ‘sagun' mountaineering you have at the peak god's empty nest!
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