Wisdom to one not wise
To uninformed ears
The best of pen plain appears,
To him who can’t see,
A cross-eyed girl is beauty,
To hard to hear, jeers are cheers.
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Tanka (Tongue-in-cheek) |14.07.2023| poetry, beauty
Poet’s note: This is a Tanka dressed as a Limerick.
Based on a shloka in Sanskrit:
Aprati-buddhe shrotari vaktur-vaakyam prayaati vaifalyam |
Nayana-viheene bhartari laavanyam iva iha khanjana-akhinaam ||
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