Friday, January 27, 2023

The Ever Flying Kite

 

See the kite's sway in the sky:

Papered soul pulls for escaping fly,

Corded attachment but to the earthly;—

The life force to its limits finally.

The will of the soul for free float,

Alas! Possible only jerks lot,

Till the last drop hot,

The instinct, the desire leaves not.

 

And the momentary penury released,

As if to get the prisoner appeased,

What a beggar the besieged!

Pious but still teased.

Yes, broken at last! That wondrous free flight,

Alas but until fall for earthly delight.

Thursday, January 26, 2023

To the Spring Bygone

 

Summer hast arrived

As all the spring flowers begone;

When so many smiles shone,

Sun brighter now; perfume fried :

Flowery dust lie buried,

Small whiff and even that gone;

Scented maiden's ashes thrown,

Sis's dusty reaches get seed.

 

Silver Goddess sweetly hiss

Upon everything from leaves to tongues:

Dry leaves' short sway;

Discharmed lips open to kiss

The lost perfumed songs;—

Spring doth seem so far away.

Little Morning Star

 

Little houri! When I saw

Thou for the first,—

Morning star in the horizon east,

Fought which night's awe,

To change my morning's law.

And there I was standing wonderstruck,

Pondering, now when sky has been recast,

Dost this new star takes row

To shine for me during the day?

Sun's light I have'd enough,

What dost this new celestial angel creates?

There I was cajoling my new ray,

The lips parted for a laugh;

O my ears, what heaven narrates?

The Immortal Eating Mortality

 

Death, when thou'll come,

I don't know how'd I feel,

O thou destroyer of life's zeal,

Thou keep perfect mum,

So many noises fall upon thy ears dumb,

Thus, nobody knows how to deal

With the deaf host gulping last meal;

Listening not to prayers and Godly hymn.

 

O thou majestic unknown hunter,

So certain is thy grip on the prey

That lifelong we prepare ourselves as food thine,

And thou quickly saunter

Over the eyes with last ray,

Death, how you'd stamp mortality mine?

Puzzled Summer

 

Wispy summer bides a hesitating bye,

As nature's law forces exile

To the other hemisphere, along Nile,

Awaits which eagerly hot fairy's sigh,

That tropical ever-greenery doth wry

Over the cool lover gone vile;—

Makest love too much in spring's guile,

Over-bred, she calls thou with a cry.

 

Thou but autumn-stricken here:

Pine for these dew rainy nights

Over the winter flowers already sown,

Like a mother thou fear

Warmly for children left alone in cold's delights,

And with a fleecy sob thou moan.

Ode to the Autumn

 

Autumn, thou stand betwix

The summer and the winter,

Still, like divinity thou mix

Contradictions: The soul and the matter.

 

Summer still warms during the day,

As, takes it paddy to its youth,

Winter too sneaks in after the sun's last ray,—

Dew almost rains to water their mouth.

 

Summer's last ripening and windfall;

Last gift to that lonely little lass,

Looking eagerly into some tree tall,

'What'd I offer', the winter guess.

 

Autumn, thou save that farmer from weather bite,

Which the two extremities try to force by fight.

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Moony Mother's Light

 

Look how the night milks

The whole landscape spread infantly,

Like a mother breastfeeding her child gently,

And everything hazy eyed by winy maternal sips,

Vow! O moony night thy motherly lips

Kiss the sleepy panorama; the mother saintly

Strokes everything lying in her lap faintly,

O sleepless mother thy head never trips!

 

Look how whitish the love bathes the shadows!

Aura such that even ghosts seem friendly,

What fear has to do near love such,

Thus, every soul opens all its windows,

So that mother's light enter grandly,

And still she never finds it too much!