Ascetic Poems - Poems about Ascetic

Perhaps one day I’ll join the rest beauties placed upon the stage embodying nature’s tendency to demonstrate the female grace between the age of young to old each so comely in their way time will dictate consequence though forward movement will occur a legacy that all must face to embody their own display a statement made by design as age descends with every year perhaps one day...

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Deprive yourself pleasure, so you may Gain a reward beyond measure....

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SOLILOQUE ................. Alone in the way; without seeing even a single way amongst thousand ways. But he could see a lamp where cobblers and emperors stand together, lamentably begging. Some of them were not reluctant even to steal the iris of the God. And their prayers turned out to be a question towards the God. Went back. Free from edifice. Since then,...

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Niitthaar Perumai, The Fundamental Role of the Ascetic: Canto 3, K29 and K30 of the Thirukkural by Thiruvalluvar (In these kurals, I give both the "unrefined" versions using connective particles and modified post-positions (in Tamil: according to the rules of "punarcchi", etc.) of the seven groups of words and, subsequently, the "refined" versions where the alliterative...

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Niitthaar Perumai: The Fundamental Role of the Ascetic, Canto 3 of the Thirukkural-K27 and 28. Translations and Commentary. K27: kunamenung kunreeri ninraar veguli kanameeyung kaatthal larithu. The wrath 'tis hard e'en for an instant to endure Of those who virtue's hill have scaled, and stand secure. (Tr. G.U.Pope)* The anger of...

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Niitthaar Perumai: The Fundamental Role of the Ascetic, Kurals 24, 25 & 26, Translations with commentary K24: niraimoli maanthar perumai nilatthu maraimoli kaadti vidum. The might of men whose word is never vain, The 'secret word' shall to the world proclaim. (Tr. G.U.Pope)* * In the...

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Niithaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of Ascetics, Canto 26 of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classical Treatise on Ethics, Translation and Commentary by T. Wignesan [Given the scarcity of information (mostly conflicting even then) on the origins and times of the author of this classical Tamil literary masterpiece, I have selected the above decadal canto for...

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my rage is something else lives an ascetic life- pathetic glances about space taking time to choose- erase- delude & replace. come to me on your knees whispering quiet submissive "please" tickling my fancy, covering me in wicked delight. i refuse to stop you & our fight is a merging (collision) bloody bonds, bared teeth & shared defeat....

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