Pray, what use vouching witless words so vain?
For men to tread only two tracks seem sane:
Youthful beauty’s well-bestowed a bosom,
Retire or else to woods, make ho nor hum.
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Translation(quatrain) | 21.08.2025 | men, romance, women, forest
Note: Here is a verse from Bhartrihari’s Shringaara Shatakam (hundred verses on love and romance) in this case in Maalinee meter. It says, let us cut down all words of wisdom so vain. When it comes to bare basics, there are only two ways in this world well their worth for a man to pursue, both as last resorts: a youthful beauty’s well-bestowed bosom, or retiring to forest, far from the madding crowd as they say. Note the rhyming assonance and alliteration: yauvanam va vanam va. Here is transliteration of the verse:
Kim iha bahubhih uktaih yukti-shunyaih pralaapaih
Dvayam iha purushaanaam sarvadaa sevaneeyam ||
Abhinava mada-leelaa-laalasam sundareenaam
Stana-bhara parikhinnam yauvanam vaa vanam vaa || 72 ||
Categories:
vouching, beauty, men, romance, women,
Form: Quatrain
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
Categories:
vouching, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Soldiers never tire of “Yes Sir”!
Forgetful lips a long storm stir,
Disciplinary frog jumps for an hour
Or a free fall from a waiting tower.
Soldiers love Ear-Dividing “Yes Sir!”
You lower yours you’ve robbed them their fur;
No defaulter who won’t seem damned sour,
The Newest Bride might just lose her flower.
Solider could never stop feeding on force
At short notice quite ready for a course
They should want to ascertain its source
With a clearly disinterested horse!
Soldiers keep to the mischief of slouching
Towards a quarry by some fireside crouching.
So, why should one ever be heard vouching
For a shaky honor in innocent words couching?
Categories:
vouching, career, violence, voice, war,
Form: Rhyme
Voice of the Lord*
Verily victorious in my life
Verifying my personal vows
Vanquishing my worldly vanities
Vexing my violent vengeance-vice
Vindicating my heart from hatred’s vandalism
Vying Scriptures' veracity along virtuous verdict
Vouching for my heavenly voyage of faith-ventures!
*Deuteronomy 13:18 …Hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
July 2, 2019
Categories:
vouching, bible, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Alliteration
A dog in the couch
Sighs deeply
Knowing she is cherished
Not so long ago,
She was being kicked and beaten
In a house, not a home…
She welcome death
Once upon a time, long ago.
She is the queen bee here,
Six years commanding and being
Graced by humans who were as kind
As the others were mean.
When they are called home
She will be sitting on the couch waiting
After vouching for them
Along with their other pets
Who have already taken
Their places on their
Couch in Heaven
Categories:
vouching, angel, dog, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Jealousy consumes and destroys the insecure
Over-riding love with pain in the fantasy of the brain
Yelling wolf, while the wolf waits till everyone feels secure
I am not sure the world can be saved again, for trust
So rare now, defines the sense of equality that make some believe
Believe we are all alike, when they seek escape from their past
Endeavoring to be born again in somebody's else's worship
Littered with themselves as cannot be. You must come mature
Irrepressible with confidence to this relationship to find
Embodiments of love in what I do more than what I say
Vouching for what is consistent in my character by continuity of actions
Instead of this blatant backlsiding of words. I am
Naturally prone to silence as a man, but I will shriek with delight
Glad for your attention, your confidence, and your total praise.
Infer nothing from what I say to others for I cannot speak the same to you
None is like you, difference demands different meaning that is love
Undulating memories are always of the better things, the bonds we did not break
Selfless in affection that we are committed for life to this cause of love.
Categories:
vouching, friendship, love,
Form: Acrostic
Loyal
Opposites
Vouching
Eternity
Categories:
vouching, love
Form: List
It was an old crow medicine show
At the border of Louisiana
I was looking east toward savannah
Caught a train out of Jackson
Now I’m stranded somewhere near Atlanta
Sing me asleep, in a midnight hour
Sing me away, like a folktale crier
Sing me asleep, on the back of the bus
Sing me away, you’re the only one I trust
Back in Kansas City
Lost my shadow on the rails
Found myself no pity
In the land of poverty tales
Vouching for a pass
Last stop for the Jefferson bus line
Bed time stories
Were nothing more than lies
Found a trail of tears
Collecting my wildflowers in spine
Sing me asleep, in a midnight hour
Sing me away, like a folktale crier
Sing me asleep, on the back of the bus
Sing me away, you’re the only one I trust
Heard the banjo playing
Missed the band wagon
Trying to hear
What the old man was saying
Heard the last call for supper
Persimmons unripe with a pucker
Learned the art of resilience
From a west bound trucker
"Tales of a no one"
Categories:
vouching, adventure, caregiving, life, music,
Form: Free verse