—The Gravity Newton Did Not Measure—
Beneath the apple's fall, he marked the ground,
and read in its descent the law of weight;
from that brief wound where heaven touched the bound,
he drew the occult grammar of our Fate.
Had he observed us with that fathoming eye—
the hand withheld when mercy sued for bread;
the father schooling silence, lest the cry
of what he loved arraign the prosperous dead;
the man who heard a stranger's final plea
and found his inward kingdom void of voice;
the prince who minted grief into decree,
while living names were forfeit to his choice—
he might have measured, under civil skies,
the altitude where human uprightness dies.
Uprightness and kindness stands
They speak to your heart
Your heart clouded by anger
Anger and kindness
Separate paths to virtue
Three years he took delight in the embrace of his mother.
He lived, his mother's love and care replaced by no other
Love for God and every being grew with him as he grew.
As desert daisies and blissful birds, divine care he knew
From his teachers and nature, the teacher, wisdom he gained
In credence, courage, honour, and humbleness, he got trained.
Love for uprightness and joy of freedom dawned day by day.
The null and void earthly life too choked him in every way.
He penned something always. Did he know what he truly wrote?
On seas of fancies, like a weightless wood, he used to float.
He might be a bit reckless and foolish in his dealings.
He's not crooked yet; he's sensitive to others' feelings.
Right, not might and concord of physique and psyche, he knew
From the fairness of all beings, his source of life, he drew.
In his love and care for the poor and weak, he's not blinded.
Like tigers, lions, wolves, bears, and beavers, he's single-minded.
O humanity doth like flower like something ever
even when night falls or tis twilight of dawn.
Or humanity is a word tolling, tolling, tolling of course
or tis like a summer snow or winter gale or doth kind
of autumnal windy tides of a thing.
H may stand for hope or hinter or peace
U may stand for uprightness or utilitarianism or
something merer or better
tis N may be a smile about the word man.
O why when a swarm of something will follow
we may behold remember such and such words?,
why when the world will awaken in the morning we will
do the same thing and when also it goes to sleep?,
why the bush even though is green is fearsome
or wild and war is pale or the moon is beholder
entertaining the eye or doth grasshopper?.
O for a content of eerie and vampire tonight?, what is
sometimes the best way out?.
I wish for full freedom,
at every step of life full freedom to function.
No boredom.
Uprightness twined.
Freedom in speech and in action.
Free mind.
No fight.
Satisfaction.
Right !
I wish full freedom.
Freedom in speech and in action.
Right !
Zenith of perfection is the aim of my existence.
My pilgrimage towards this, I know, is my persistence.
I align my senses like a predator towards prey.
My physique and psyche are synthesised in every way.
The social fibre in me, like thread in linen, is knit.
Doesn't the quiver of optimism endlessly transmit?
I dig the mines of cores of self-searching for the truth.
Thoughts, words, and actions are in unfeigned perpetual youth.
The fulfilment of feelings flows towards fullness of life.
Between uprightness and vileness, there is a constant strife.
Virtues, like treasures of vast oceans, are hidden within
Could stains of sin, before relentless goodness ever win?
Divinity, like vast skies, endlessly gets expanded.
Fullness of spirit within innermost shrines is implanted.
Values are revalued. Sensual pleasures are channelled.
Hindrances towards integral liberation are annulled.
All that the almighty meant for humans to be is won.
Eternally, in everything, the divine will is done.
June 9 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Job 32-34
Key Verse – Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO INSPIRES US
Praise be to God for inspiring us:
Giving us understanding
Granting to us usefulness
Gearing us by His uprightness
Governing us with His upholding
Guiding us against untimely unions
Job 33:12 Praise be to the Lord
for being the greatest with His:
Wise ways
Worthy will
Wondrous works
Watchful wellness
Winsome warning over wickedness
Job 34:23 Praise be to the Saviour for
making us delight ourselves in His:
Victory and valour
Values against vanity
Virtues for our vibrancy
Veracity against vagueness
Voice vouching valid ventures. Amen!
June 9, 2024
Just as the blush will always leave the rose
and leaves of fall will crumble on the ground,
the love that comes when you’re in the throes
of lust can’t last, for love must be profound!
True love is patient and forgiving too.
It’s wise and cheerful, and it’s built on trust.
There’s nothing that your true love would not do
to keep love strong; uprightness is a must.
Most people can’t conceive of love like this.
It takes hard work for such love to be sure.
The expectation of a life of bliss
is why a common love cannot endure.
The lucky few who live and know true love
are those who can expect great joy above.
Perfection I should gain; as perfect as the warmth of love,
Affluence, aspiration, and uprightness too should shove;
That substance, that essence, that omnipotent power sway,
That formal and final cause and effect only will stay...!
Could I call it Narvana, the confident negation?
Could I call it ethereal, eternal elation?
Is it one from whom the comely universe came to be?
Is it the source of all that I could see and cannot see...?
Is it Tian, the highest principle of all creation?
Is it causation, collation, and conscious cessation?
Endless energy, crucial truth, yet, indescribable,
Could its foundation and finish be so ascribable...?
Such as Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, All-embracing Allah,
The Father, Son, and the Spirit... Amen Alleluiah...!
Waheguru and numerous god-men and women, great,
Through them, with them, in them... I'll be in an ecstatic state...!!!
17 April 2023
Can I, your eternal touch, ever comprehend?
Can a dew drop within a vacuum suspend?
Quenching and refreshing like the freshwater streams,
Your saving grace, in my physique and psyche, gleams...!
It's your grace that makes me generous like nature,
And love and respect your unique legislature;
It's your gracious glance that cycles my constant change,
It leads me beyond stress-filled situations strange...!
Care and concern for every creature it evokes,
Virtues, like the breeze caressing the crops, it strokes;
Granting courage to endure trials and temptations,
Bonds, like thread tying the flowers, our relations...!
May your touch, Divine Master, be on me each day,
As the sun and moon, and stars may this, guide my way;
May my uprightness and integrity, I pray,
Like a lighthouse, firmly, in me forever stay...!!!
26 March 2023
If there were
only MORAL coins
and no MINT coins
people's would have
conducted sans sins
Sin smeared
Moral coins
would be akin to
Self Demonetised
Unfit coins for trade
good for scrap grade
Pristine Moral coins
would be like medals
glorifying character
Premium coins
best for any trade
It's time to have
NOBEL PRIZE
for High Morale
rewarding uprightness in
socio-political category
It's time, schools have
Honesty, Integrity
as mandatory subject
laying gen-next's cornerstone
of character super structure
Immorality, Corruption is blooming
having 12.months spring season
Corroding roots of Values
How long tree will hold terrain?
With no oxygen, no fruits
how long Society will sustain?
Nursing Roots,
Nursing Morality
ought to be top priority
Else corruption white ants
feeding on cellulose of greed
will disorient stability, safety
and hollow out society timber
MORAL coins or
MINT coins?
Value based society or
Anarchy based society?
Time to mint Chances
Time to make Choices
_____________________________
© Dr Hitendra Mehta, India
My House - Life
My house- life is constructed
with bricks of dignity and self esteem.
Enthusiastic emotion has erected
columns of uprightness.
Perdurable passion has completed
pearly painting.
Fortune favours through
wide window.
Destiny forces foisting glass ceiling.
Phrenetic frustrations and pococurante stagnancy
to escape through back door.
Open terrace to savour
lustrous lavender love in liberation
and dinkum dreamy desires to desseminate.
01/26/23
Brian Strand No. 1175
Contest by Brian Strand
(My uncle who has been my father’s younger brother was almost like a father to me. He began his life as a commissioned officer in the Indian Air Force. He married my mother’s sister and is connected to me from both sides)
"I carry your heart with me(I carry it in my heart)I am never without it" Quote _ by E.E. Cummings
Gone you are, but shall not be forgotten
Love you and cherish the values you sowed
Through life’s strenuous paths you have trodden
With truth and uprightness you were endowed
You sired four children, a beautiful brood
From a heart of gold doled out love and care
You showed the path and your trail they pursued
Climbing ladders of success, they did fare
Heaped not any wealth, but worked without rest
Taught your children to accept life with grace
Gave up your pleasures to give them your best
You braved your days through life's perplexing maze
Uncle, to King eternal, you have fled
In our hearts, your loving memories flood
Sept.14.2022
Lost to Heaven- My Uncle
Writing Challenges- In My Heart- S forms
Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France
God knows the future from its beginning
His eyes see all things in His sight
nothing is hidden from our creator
who works always perfectly right
I was married in my mid-twenties
to a lovely Christian girl Jean
her witness to me really changed me
giving me a bible to make me clean
Through Jean's influence upon me
answering my questions on scripture
pointed me in the way to God
learning much along this road to endure
Jean and I wed in November '81
but Jean's health had not been good
for a number of years been a struggle
this causes thoughts so misunderstood
But things got worse needing an op
which was successful thinking all's great
but the illness came back again
leaving Jean in an unhealthy state
Jean died in October 1982
at 28 she had only a few years
God is sovereign in all He does
we must bow before Him in godly fear
("The righteous man perishes,
and no one lays it to heart;
devout men are taken away,
while no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;
he enters into peace;
they rest in their beds
who walk in their uprightness.")
(Isaiah 57: 1-2)
Don't fear
My children
The light is near
Is this present but a game's kid?
Feel gratitude not for what rain falls upon thy head
But because heavens keep us reign
Think feelings
Ovations of the breathing
Reappraised havoc,
Sore living;
Let their kingdom crumble--fallen
Uprightness of the muddled
Rising in pain--contemplation's following
Yet both as One
Loving, wholesome act
Be reappraised
From the core to the skies
Benevolence, like time flies;
Relaying deeper eyes
My heart is yours
Lead my way to the loving
Heaven's encore
Truthful bestowing--
Blooming cohering--
In turning the harrowing.
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