Still, thou art such a passion pill
...Well-groomed ye keep thy tresses so curly,
Thy tender big eyes extend nigh till ears,
O thou so slender, heavenly fairy,
White teeth in thy fair visage endears,
Pearl garland adds to thy bosom...
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Categories:
transliteration, beauty, passion, women,
Form: Ottava rima
Poets ill advised
...Indeed poets, ye seem inscrutable,
Should ye call a woman vulnerable,
By just one sharp look if she dares, defies,
Casts lethal arrows enticing with eyes,
If conquer can she e’en gods heavenly,
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Categories:
transliteration, poets, women,
Form: Rhyme
Just two ways to go
...Pray, what use vouching witless words so vain?
For men to trail, only two trails seem sane:
Youthful beauty’s well-bestowed a bosom,
Retire or else to woods, make ho nor hum.
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Categories:
transliteration, beauty, men, romance, women,
Form: Quatrain
Greed governs some love
...Humans, long a self-seeking breed,
Oft concoct love foreseeing need.
With tender grass lush green
Does a butcher fatten
His sheep in his own selfish greed.
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Categories:
transliteration, love, men, self,
Form: Quintain (English)
The golden line of sanguine heart
...The golden line of sanguine heart
That noble friendship sets apart,
I wonder what’s the test,
If indirect at best,
As touchstone be in a gold mart.
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Categories:
transliteration, friendship, heart,
Form: Quintain (English)
Back-biting bites own back
...Who so maligns a noble man,
None but his own self tends to stain,
The ash thrown over head,
On one’s own head gets spread,
O indulge in no smear campaign.
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Categories:
transliteration, wisdom,
Form: Quintain (English)
Merit may not inherit merit
...Progeny of the people of merit,
May not for sure would inherit merit.
Take fire and sandalwood,
The ash born smells no good,
To wit, O never generalize a bit.
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Categories:
transliteration, race, wisdom,
Form: Quintain (English)
From malady comes remedy
...From where so a fault comes to call,
There from hint comes how to forestall:
Boils and blisters that burn,
Back by hot foments turn,
From ailment does its cure unroll.
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Categories:
transliteration, pain,
Form: Quintain (English)
That poem alone pleases
...That man alone seems charming,
Who a fancied lass finds fascinating,
That poem is a piece of art
That captivates a reader’s heart.
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Categories:
transliteration, poems,
Form: Quatrain
Goaded, ego gloats in air
...Stoked and stirred up, fire flares,
If provoked, cobra scares,
Hurt by loss of glory,
Startled, beasts show fury,
Goaded, ego gloats in thin airs.
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Categories:
transliteration, fire, self,
Form: Quintain (English)
When music shall ensue
...The step-well water gets when clean
And lilies then blossom therein,
In drones when bees come to lilies,
Ah, music shall madden the bees,
(And me by their maddening din!)
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Categories:
transliteration, music, water,
Form: Quintain (English)
Let delight trail plight
...Joys thrill upon suffering grief,
In dense darkness lamp’s light as if,
Good days all gone, should one get bad,
All alive, poor soul lives like dead.
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Categories:
transliteration, grief, happiness, joy, men,
Form: Quatrain
Man of merit knows merit
...Man of merit knows merit,
No one else devoid of it.
The mighty knows what might is,
No one else who from fight flees.
Koel knows spring’s worth, not crows,
Tusk lion’s might, mouse ne’er know...
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Categories:
transliteration, courage, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Four ways to test, men and gold
...As gold gets tested in ways four:
By rubbing and scratching,
By heating and beating,
So too a man, says ancient lore:
Knowledge and character’s creed,
By family roots and deed.
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Categories:
transliteration, men,
Form: Rhyme
A drug that works, tastes well too
...Who knows his mind, may not his good,
Who knows his good, may not his mind,
Rare is a learned with good heart,
A drug that works, tastes well’s rare kind.
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Categories:
transliteration, drug, heart, men,
Form: Quatrain
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