Long Perishable Poems

????John 10:14-15 NIV??
[14]  “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— [15] just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life...

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Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan 

Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Brahmin poet: Cuppiramania Bharathiyar (cf. two poems of...

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“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
–“He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” by W.B. Yeats 

“I love you...

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Nothing in Excess
(the second Delphic maxim of Apollo)



A mixture of the brute and the divine
                    ...

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She always shouted at me
criticized me full day
Told my husband, in laws and kid I am bad
They hated me
and treated me badly
Every moment everyone only told me how bad I am
It seemed as if I...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Famous poets dedication series, Part One

I.

O' Man Of Perishable Earth

O' priest of golden sun
where hides thy black heart
Pray each day, dark deeds undone
in light, great wisdom impart

O' master of ink and pen
where...

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It is simple to laugh
at this sinister comedy,
ablaze with maddening duality.
A true scene of blood-thick bonds,
breaking never, but
somehow,
tightening, like a noose
around the throat of the last
living,
thinking organism,
ascending beyond basic self judgment,
embracing those strange strings
bound to...

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Tomatoes are red and perishable as are roses,
Specializing in their trade takes a heart.
Eggs are fragile,as are glasses,
It is not easy to hawk them around.
Honey is sweet but comes from a far.
That's why I sell...

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"Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at  hand," John the Baptist 
Mathew 3:2.

As soon as Jesus was baptized [by John the Baptist], he went up
out of the water.  At that moment heaven...

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"Mrs Langley, what did Jesus Christ, tell you recently about  me?" asked Peace.

"Believe it or not , Peace,  Jesus Christ recently told me that you are the very last
person that needs to become...

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1 Corinthians 15:47-58 Death has been swallowed up in victory

The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. v 47
As was the earthly man (Adam), so are those who...

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Can money buy love?
Though money answers all things but not like love
Yet most have sold their soul for cash
And their conscience because of money
They have ensnared their Will with their words
Now they regret how imprisoned...

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There seems to be no lack of opportunities, but an inadequate supply of ‘readiness’. My most recent opportunity came knocking on yesterday morning, Monday, July 7, 2014, at around 8:55.  I was getting gas,...

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A ittle boy of 9 or 10 said, "Want to buy some chips?"  I replied, "How much and for what purpose?" The little boy told me, but I quickly forgot and asked the kid...

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Dad lying on the bed; when he saw me, his eyes glinted.
                     He tried to...

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Under the sun and moon, flawed men linger in the cold 
Who in the mist of darkness, cut and rip apart trees eons old 
While stepping on grass and insects for wood to be sold...

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A body abandoned 
needs to mourns its last breath in death
a heart cast aside 
still aches to meet its last beat

and a free spirit yearns for a winged monarch moment 
to fly in the spirit...

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"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff." Carl Sagan
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We’re all stardust, remnants of Divine Magnetism and celestial fire 
     born in cosmic crucibles, forged by desire.
  ...

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Nothing new in the electrochemistry 
It no longer is a scientific mystery
Waves Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta, Gamma & Epsilon
Descending from buoyant ecstasy to a persona forlorn 

Zodiac signs & rainbow colours assigned to chakras renamed
Esoteric...

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A mixture of the brute and the divine Man is,
That’s why the strife in his soul never ends
As the eternal adversaries for superiority strive
In the depths of everyone’s divided heart.

     ...

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How could I sense when people are in need of hugs? 
I always had that loving heart
Now what happened to it? 

I'm in big trouble...ragged with loathe 
My hugs don't hold the same feelings
It chokes the living from...

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I stand solo, aloof in the snow, a precipitation 
                     of words cascading from a...

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Is your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life?
And do you possess the Golden Key unlocking everlasting life?
Have your sins been washed white as snow by the Blood of the Lamb?
 Have you instead...

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be we in duality
or in singularity 
essence of aliveness
requires a vibration
renewing itself within itself
or what we call consciousness 

the screen of space-time 
is the stage set for duality 
of what is all that is manifest
as...

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John 5:21, 25-26, 28-29 NIV?
[21] For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. 
[25] Very truly I...

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