Long Favourable Poems

Our lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
     Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;     
 Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above      
 ...

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Telling tales or stories is a favourable pasttime;
But using pictures to tell stories of past and present,
Yours remind me of days back in time,
Would not be all very  recent,
Last ones of grateful recline
To golden...

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The year has finally yawned and turned       
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging 
Enforcement of the strengthening light, 
In its deliberate and unconcerned   ...

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K375 and K376 of Canto XXXVIII of the THIRUKKURAL Translated with Commentary

(Biographical details of an author, especially of someone having thrived in a land given to scant regard for documenting history in a systematic manner...

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Rhyme  Quatrain



Telling tales or stories is a favourable pasttime;
But using pictures to tell stories of past and present,
Yours remind me of days not so recent,
And ones of grateful recline
To golden years so sublime.

Mother, telling...

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After the rain, 
the Sun will rise again
we have been in darkness since they arrived
in their caravan of dreams with empty promises of change, 
and constructive untruths, with which they tricked us to abandon our...

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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 separate "book" in its own...

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Life is a continuous journey beset with troubles
So long we live in this universe,
Trouble becomes part and parcel of human experience 
Life swings like a pendulum, 
One moment swings towards favourable conditions;
That brings name,fame,gain,praises and...

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January 13 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 37-39

Key Verse – Genesis 39:23 … The LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE...

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Dear Marshall, I'm writing this knowing you don't know who I am
You've heard it millions of times, You'd probably laugh and call me Stan
But growing up, your music prevented me from committing suicide 
I just...

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Tomorrow is pregnant
no one knows what it would bring forth
Boy or a bouncing baby girl 
Perhaps the unfolding mystery of good and evil
Thou art the hand made of Nature
dearest blessed and adores by nature
flew thou...

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August 10 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Ezekiel 25-28

Key Verse – Ezekiel 25:17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD,...

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December 2 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Timothy 1-2

Key Verse– 2Timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ...

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June 23, 2023 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Proverbs 5-8

Key Verse – Proverbs 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

LORD GOD,...

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When would the vegetables in my farmland grow?
Others have harvested theirs but mine is yet
To germinate after many month of impatient wait
Take the children away and share them among my brethren
I have no money to...

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July 4 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Song of Solomon 5-8

Key Verse – Song of Solomon 6:3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

LORD GOD, YOU...

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We’ve all  been a part of universe,
though not as older as nature,
& its not wise to think of only us as adverse,
as we’ve got something as imperfect as this creature.

We’ve always been aware of...

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December 26 Scripture Meditations Based on Revelation 13-14

Key Verse – Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

MY GOD, THANK...

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April 29 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Chronicles 1-4

Key Verse –1Chronicles 4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and...

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July 9 Scripture Meditations Based on Ecclesiastes 1-2

Key Verse – Ecclesiastes 2:3  I sought in mine heart…, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom… 

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR ACQUAINTING ME WITH YOUR WAYS

Thank You...

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Stands a beautiful tree firmly with its gracious branches and boughs 
On a bank of a running or on an edge of round pond 
May be it is on the skirt of triangular lake 
Natural...

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Life is a combination of different strata and classes
with the upper classes feeding on the states of the lower
which is the usual, displayed in most societies and cultures
and such a web between nations even more...

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We, my wife and I, were living 
With our son in an Indian Metropolis.
It was sometime before 
I took up my assignment in Africa. 

I was just vegetating,
When I came across an ad—for holiday-homes.
Prospective customers...

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In God’s  goodness*, always abounding.
He keeps us within His compassion’s  surrounding...
While in His Word we are abiding.

Within His goodness of tender mercy
The Lord attends to our prayer of faith’s fervency...
Exhorting us to have...

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Prayer, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem : Prière

(One of Paul Verlaine’s later poems, after having gone through early success as a poet, love, family life, and yet another kind of relationship with Rimbaud, crime, prison,...

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