Half-baked unwise vouch no words pleasing,
One-- frank, plain-speaking knows no cheating,
Greedless longs for no governing chair,
One-- desire-less aspires no pluming.
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Sanskrit Translation | 22.01.2026 | desire, frank, officer, wants, wise, quatrain
Note: Some quatrains called shlokas in Sanskrit are known as Subhaashhitams, words well-said. This one presents some practical wisdom on half-baked unwise, frank persons, and those desire-less. Transliteration is as under:
na avidagdhah priyam brooyaat,
sphuta-vaktaa na vañchakah |
nih-sprhah na adhikaari syaat,
na a-kaamee mandana priyah || Subhaashhitam ||
Rumi can seem Love loony
his verses make us rosy bloomin’
we cannot be fuming, our crown feathers pluming
when swirling to his songs, swooning
Learning to swim, when a baby fish
Finds in a secret power to unleash
The power within to fine swim
Underlying, to just push and trim
To open the colourful energy to bloom
Too soon to enjoy the freedom from cocoon
The baby fish, pluming himself on its fins
Finding ways to break comfort zone –wins
The baby fish rides on swim like a sea horse
Quick enough to rush in &out to let her secret bubble Morse
To find the power within to all the aqua bezzie
To make the world of water – full of power pals
And float the message of power within in Blue Ocean
The joy of discovering the hidden power in one’s ocean.
They offer no rope nor traction.
Following a prolonged icy tongue-blast.
A slow slide into the greasy crevasse.
Where lie soul-stiffening white jackets.
There seem to be infinite oceans of infinite critics.
Vast deserts without an oasis of empathy.
Powers that be will steal the last of the cherries.
Leaving mountains of bluish pits and pluming death.
Drunk clowns are juggling our happiness.
Squirting flowers filled with ink and lye.
To cloak the last bastions of gilded sanity,
To poison any goodness in our lives.
So, what are the children of silence to do?
Sit in their blackness and lick a sticky candy dish.
Surrender the ghost of a million to appease a few.
Or come out swinging in the light-with fiery fists.
Rejuvenating flowers are blooming
Connecting to earth as life is renewed
A kaleidoscope of colours booming
Spring is the time for some garden grooming
Squirrels jump up and down in search of food
Rejuvenating flowers are blooming
Carnations, crocus, lilies are looming
With roses, red bells, jasmines all bedewed
A kaleidoscope of colours booming
Sunshiny weather is now resuming
Joyful energy, nature does exude
Rejuvenating flowers are blooming
Songbirds tweet tweet and spend their time pluming
Lush verdure enhances everyone's mood
A kaleidoscope of colours booming
The zephyr has a pleasant perfuming
With vivacity, bright skies are imbued
Rejuvenating flowers are blooming
A kaleidoscope of colours booming
12th April, 2022
For Sotto Poet's "Springtime villanelle" contest
*lemon tree filled*
*with colorful melody*
*blubbering hearts*
*and lumbering luminosity*
*it’s countenance cheering upward*
*ferocious in it joyful cacophony*
*spreading wide its branches*
*buffet of pluming propensity*
*bullish in its bittersweet*
*its red and yellow sweets*
*swathed resurrection*
*Summer-squeeze of fruity leaves*
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5/19/2021
love's a voluptuous venom, wanky wares
until between cruising couplet it's shared
make no name if seeped'n felon flaunt
porous penury outsmarts wielded wealth: wanky whore
whooshing war's better for jolting justice
if for fame, moaning mistake feigns thrills
melting mind carves a cave for choice
many lodge in insanity, pruned politic's foil
if trained taking groomed you not to give
death drools, more you take less you live
lanky lust's a pluming plague love cures
well! Inky infatuation often love lures
if life pores patience that you seek refuge in death
you've been dead ere then - callous selfishness' crest.
'20:05:27:10:58
Note: of airy acumen.
there was a tale told
which wanky water wrote
callous contractions crumbled
trailing taunted throb, gaunt grumble
eerie syllables dripping dances
impi imagination hoisting advances
pluming porously punctured perception
felon future featuring fusion
he was the thrilled theme
trained by ferocious tendencies' flea
salient sucks, moaning myth's might
wishing lame time would hog furious flight
make your endeavors the mirror
at least a rusty reference to tortures.
'20:05:18:16:46
Note: Of moaning mirror.
eerie vision vied
pluming perforated plights
dark dribbles dug
masticating munching mug
hoisted hankerings smothered
felon zeal fostered
moaning mist cloned
thorn ocean thrown
gloating gaunt glows
salient shaver sucked
la-de-da lures lust
wielded wits gulped
airy alakazam ailed
porous pupils' plight
'20:05:13:18:47
Note: Of porous perception.
sassy spell snapped
trailing taunted trance
callous clouds cruised
bounty blitzkrieg bruised
nocturnal nymph nudged
pluming lanky lust
amputated atmosphere bled
alakazam cremating crest
fostering phlegm fetched
felon flesh flipped
dark dribbles clipped
tampered trees gripped
leering logs lobbed
kaleidoscopic chaos clogged.
'20:04:30:20:37
Note: Of pained picture.
wielded wits wept
bruising bounty belch
felon feelings fetched
taunted callous cleft
hoisted hurts bled
moaning mist melts
meagre metamorphoses squashed
pluming punctured prank
tolling toiled trance
masticated memory lurched
basked coup's birth
vying voluptuous verge
braced ocean breaks
drown drooling mistake?
'20:04:23:17:47
Note: of pestered picture.
eerie eyes etched'n
cloned callous crest
felon face featured
fostering porous punctures
dark dribbles drooled
hoisting haggard pukes
voluptuous vision danced
taunting tempestuous trance
bewitched aura bagged
irking instinct itched
hoisting sassy skills
coursing mouth clipped
bounty battle birthed
saline liquid slipped.
'20:04:22:18:35
Note: Of pluming picture.
bruised brush bled
oozing, drooling dreg
puked pulpy pledges
wielded wits etches
hankering zeal hoisted
dribbling fiery drills
yearning fingers flickers
dragging moaning meter
delicate gaze glisters
gaunt grasped gibes
itching dainty drive
mystic art's aisle
crisp contractions yawns
pluming porous pawn.
'20:04:21:19:26
Note: Of porous picture.
smirk seeped'n acme
damping dainty drips
of salient scrunchies
punctured puke pitched
on callous crest
pluming pulpy pests
hoisted aura hankering
fostering flattered feelings
callous contractions crumbling
la-de-da limbs lurching
aiding cranky catastrophe
on prurient priest
costly commotion vying
daring damsel dangling.
20:01:06:11:55
Note: A lady passing by...
Snippets of a discarded song breach my unguarded ears,
Dive through a drowning of blue-soaked years,
depth-charge submerged memories,
Send lost love pluming through the surface of my pacific mind.
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