Asceticism Poems - Poems about Asceticism

Mirza Ghalib English Translations 2

...MIRZA GHALIB ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

Urdu poems about life, passion, pain, night, sleep, thought, longing, laments, death & the heart.

I long to embrace her, Ghalib,
whose thought is the rose in ...

In the twilight of thoughts, where shadows whisper the secrets of ideologies

...In the twilight of thoughts, where shadows whisper the secrets of ideologies,
I stand, a prism refracting the multitude of hues of the "isms,"
Each beam a story of belief, a spectrum of convictions...

FELICIA

...This architectural frame upon your mortal hue
Testifies God’s perfection and generosity in creation
These compartments of yours that dazzle the eye 
Are autographs that you are far above angelic b...

Baptism Of Jesus

...Asceticism and realism were embraced in baptism.
The era of waiting is gone. Emmanuel exists.
The spirit in him fluttered into doves of optimism.
Mercies fell amidst musing humanity like mild mist...

Serling and Roddenberry for Tea: IMPORTANT Epilogue Update

..."What sort of world
be home to those
who goes about
judging all souls
of what they do
be right or wrong
and how'd they know
of this-and-that
be bad or good
be alsoooo, true
lest they were t...

Reputations a Freed Verse

...REPUTATIONS

reputed
&
most moving
devotion
most
 magnificent
  housed
in a  frame
  to be seen
in another
sensibility

representitive
 aspects
of  asceticism
a moment
of instant
c...

Essence

...Isn't the thing that makes a thing a thing that thing's essence?
Concrete being within the being which is quintessence;
Atman, the nucleus, is the essence of human life,
That protects, like a shie...

A Whole Day Spent Saying Sorry

...Can one a whole day spend saying 'sorry':
Can man fill with 'sorry' back of lorry?

Methinks it would make a sight gory
Craving 'longest sorry' for one's glory:
Someone quite like you hairy or f...

The Dissolving Heart

...
“The Dissolving Heart” 

How many keys
played for seeds 
bleeding a life

read, received 
cast out 
in the left field 

planted in the heart
of karma to become
new l...

The Epitaph of An Abdicator

...    There sat in opulent xanadu, the 
 demagogue of empirical hedonism, 
his granary once fuelled regal reign of epicureanism:

gregarious, restive, much-awaited successor of imperial...

Still Empty

...Closed shattered the walking desert!

Moving airy mind in the open sky
finds the wings

Everything is there
In this universe, a full of adolescent beauty

No, I really didn't bring anything
...

View From the Prism of 'Ism'

...socialism  communism  fascism   despotism
  buddhism  catholicism  hinduism  zoroastrianism  
territorialism  colonialism   imperialism   expansionism
positivism  relativism  behaviorism  existent...

Thirukkural: Translation of Canto Xxxviii With Commentary

...THIRUKKURAL: Translation of Canto XXXVIII with notes and commentary

Canto XXXVIII of the Thirukkural on the topic of FATE which I give here in translation (by stages) forms, in itself, a separa...

Junk Mail Again

...Wow, look, we can save $500!

I wonder how much we must not save
to generate this savings.

Oh, I see.
We need only buy a new or used car,
which, of course, as everyone knows,
is something th...

Regretting Cake

...(Not) Regretting Cake

Never ending restrictions are slave driver’s tools a debatable concept wielding

Onslaughts on conscience asceticism zero sums zero size and perfection

To not trespass t...

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