SOME BEAUTIFUL POETIC PIECES

DREAMS

Here we are all, by day; by night we are hurled


By dreams, each one into a several world.

GREAT THINGS ARE DONE

Great things are done when men and mountains meet;


This is not done by jostling in the street.

FRAGMENTS

Language has not power to speak what love indites:


The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

KHALIL GIBRAN ABOUT CHILDREN...

I don't know when and from where I copied this beautiful poem by Khalil Gibran.The piece of paper on which I had written it was found recently lying between the pages of a book.It's really worth reading and worth digesting.

Your children are not your children

They are the sons and daughters of

Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you

And though they are with you,yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

IF WINTER COMES CAN SPRING BE FAR (BEHIND)?

What was in the mind of PERCY BYSSHE SHELLY when he uttered these words? Definitely: HOPE...because Shelly was certainly not a pessimist and like Edwin Way Teale knew that spring will definitely come.Teale says: How sad would November (winter) be if we had no knowledge of the Spring !

WINTER is a tough season...it is a rude season...a sad season...and its cruelty brings pain everywhere. George Herbert says:"Every Mile is two in Winter."Why does he say so? Because there is pain in winterwinds.

Spring on the other hand, is a pleasant season.What happens when Spring returns? Rainer Maria Rinke says:"Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems." See the effect of spring on earth.It becomes live and blossoms to its peak.

Charles Kingsley's comparison of winter and spring is a clear indication that winter reminds us almost of death whereas spring brings back life to us.His words are:"Every winter, when the great sun has turned his face away, the earth goes down into a vale of grief, and fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables leaving her wedding garland to decay...then leaps in spring to his returning kisses."

Certainly Percy Bysshe Shelly wants us to remain hopeful to life as nothing is permanent in life...Just as each night is followed by dawn, each painful suffering is followed by joy. Temporary reverses do come in life but we should not fret and fume if they come.

Anne Bradstreet has rightly showed us the significance of winter:"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

We should always hope for the better when amidst adversity for spring is always near in our heart.As you keep believing its coming, whatever difficulties you are facing now are going to be over sooner or later.You will remember them later and smile for how strong you have been.What is coming is much more beautiful and definitely worth waiting for.

To conclude with a quote from O.S.Marden:"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."