The Universe Is Maya-Illusion-W

A bird in hand is worth two in the woods
Teaches us to take care not to be greedy
In the air, quite very easy to build castles
The water and the image are not a reality.

The image of sky and pool, even the wood
This material world is, philosophically, illusion.
We know the way to create imaginary world
We humans can not dispense with illusion.

Now slowly taking the hands apart or aside
The water, the image will disappear soon
It was just an illusion in one’s mind created
We live immersed in dreams and illusion.

“We are stuff as dreams are made on and
Our little life is, with a sleep, surrounded”*

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 *A quote from William Shakespeare

* Maya means illusion in Indian languages.
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First Placement
For the contest : The power in your hands by Carolyn Devonshire
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010


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Date: 6/24/2010 6:32:00 PM
How wonderful is this winning poem!! Congratulations on this profound and insightful poem! Best wishes! Carrie
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Date: 6/24/2010 2:25:00 PM
NICELY DONE>>>> NICELY WON
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Date: 6/24/2010 11:48:00 AM
Very nice, thoughtful and true, everyone seems to have been meditating on these things lately. Perhaps Poetry Soup folks are evolving. We all need a dream.
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Date: 6/24/2010 6:01:00 AM
Congratulations DR. on your win in Carolyn Devonshire's contest "The Power in Your Hands". Love, Carol
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Date: 6/23/2010 3:22:00 PM
great poem! Doc! good on yer! mate! well deserved! jimbo
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Date: 6/23/2010 1:32:00 PM
Congrats.. on this wonderful 1st place win... very well deserved... Michael
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Date: 6/23/2010 11:47:00 AM
Wonderful poetry Dr.Ram, many congratulations on your win in Carolyn's fine contest >> James
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Date: 6/23/2010 11:36:00 AM
Good for you..1st place! congrats..this win is not an illusion...lol. BG
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Date: 6/23/2010 11:15:00 AM
Congratulations on this first place win with this intellectually worthy poem. Well done. Love, Joyce
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Date: 6/23/2010 10:42:00 AM
Congratulations on your success in the contest. A well-deserved first place. Love, Iolanda
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Date: 6/23/2010 9:38:00 AM
Congratulations Dr. Ram on your worthy presentation's success. Agape, Moses
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Date: 6/23/2010 8:46:00 AM
Congratulations on your first-place win in my contest, Dr. Ram. This was a beautiful, unique interpretation of the photo! Love, Carolyn
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Date: 6/20/2010 9:10:00 PM
We humans all over, no matter what the nationality, have our mind illusions, don't we Dr. Ram. Smile, A bird in hand is worth two in the bush, is the way we say it, but the wood is quite bushy too. Thanks for your comment today. This is a great presentation. Agape, Moses
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Date: 6/20/2010 5:48:00 PM
I like that word...Maya--Thanks for sharing.
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Date: 6/20/2010 5:21:00 PM
good good one!!! so true...yet reality is different for each of us and is determined solely by our own focus...we have the power to chose how we "take" things, aye? That's is the only power we have. Light & Love Always from the woman attempting to see the glass as COMPLETELY FULL ;)
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Date: 6/20/2010 11:09:00 AM
Beautifully written Sonnet, Dr. Ram! This poem should make you a winner in Caroly's contest! Thank you for your recent comment and have a great Sunday...Gert
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Date: 6/20/2010 6:41:00 AM
thanks for the compliment on my purple & white tanka:) appreciated!
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Date: 6/20/2010 6:17:00 AM
Definitely a winner's circle choice...Good luck in the contest...Keep the creative pen flowing with new and excellent ideas...Thanks for stopping by and commenting on my work..It isn't an entry in the contest but was inspired by the picture...I have been thinking on the picture for several days and finally it flowed but too late to enter...Sara
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Date: 6/19/2010 9:57:00 PM
Amazing poem beautiful yet sincere, keep thinking deeper just like that.
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Date: 6/19/2010 9:09:00 PM
Great write, Dr Ram. Good luck in the contest. Thanks for your comments. ...Ralph
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