Eddies of Life
Eddies of Life
Munindra started writing poems from 1970 - subsequent to his mother's demise.
The book is divided per the period when composed.
1970 - 2007: 1.Love & Strength 2.Humanity & Peace
2008: 3.War, Peace & Action
2009 - 2013: 4.Ditties On Life
Sample:
03 Childhood - Youth - Old Age
The three around the fire sitting,
Gossiping of Life and its doings,
Reached a point thought provoking,
Of their journey and life prevailing.
3 - 2
CHILDHOOD:
“Please do not leave me at this time,
Youth, do take me in your prime,
For I an entertainment will but be,
With playful antics in life’s journey.”
4 - 2
YOUTH:
“No! You can not accompany me,
As struggles exist in my journey,
Your playful antics will not be,
In my stride of any necessity.”
5 - 2
When on Youth tiredness grows,
Childhood memories do then glow,
But Old Age with its aged face,
Now stares at Youth in this race.
6 - 2
OLDAGE
“Of no use it be to remember him,
You move ahead now in this game,
Childhood once gone never returns,
Forget Childhood - Love me in turn.
7 - 2
Struggling ahead as you had moved,
Your tiredness now I shall remove,
Come on my lap relaxingly do lie,
And sleep with my pleasant lullabies.”
8 - 2
Thinking of Childhood - its playful taps,
The Youth now lies in Old Age’s lap,
Who caressing with weak trembling hands,
Sings cradle songs of eternal sleep grand.
9 - 2
4.01 Time
Time - what does it mean to be,
Never existing but changing unceasingly,
With no movement, relaying on it steadily,
Ageless - but ageing other perpetually.
1 - 4
Time is measured but in its flow,
Where does it come from, where it go,
From the past which lapsed but be,
Into the future which never one sees.
2 - 4
We dream the past but never live in it,
We hope for the future but never exist in it,
We prepare for happiness which future be,
That future which never comes to be.
3 - 4
It never decays but be the decayer,
It never is devoured, but be the devourer,
It never is ravaged, but be the ravager,
It never is wasted but be the waster.
4 - 4
It values none - but be all’s valuer,
It bows to none - but be all’s bower,
It never be taught - but be all’s teacher,
It never ends - but be all’s ender.
5 - 4
Of all the times - Time be the recorder,
Of all the things - Time be the robber,
Of all the sorrows - Time be the healer,
Of all the powers - Time be the taker.
6 - 4
In the eternal flow of time,
As the enemy it out-shines,
But for two things sublime,
`Love’ and `change’ - Divine.
7 - 4
Time - the only constant surely be,
With Love and Change its company,
Love - the eternal time truth really be,
Change - everlasting deceiver surely.
8 - 4
4.02 Desire
- If you desire to choose something,
Choose but good deeds sincerely;
9 - 4
- If you desire to control something,
Control your wagging tongue truly;
10 - 4
- If you desire to count something,
Count your life’s wrongdoings fully;
11 - 4
- If you desire to do something,
Spread Lord’s sayings earnestly;
12 - 4
- If you desire to drink something,
Drink the Love Of Divine entirely;
13 - 4
- If you desire to fight something,
Fight your anger ever diligently;
14 - 4
- If you desire to give something,
Give to the downtrodden surely;
15 - 4
- If you desire to grow something,
Grow your knowledge unendingly;
16 - 4
- If you desire to imbibe something,
Imbibe your parent’s teaching wholly;
17 - 4
- If you desire to keep something,
Keep the Lord’s knowledge faithfully;
18 - 4
- If you desire to kill something,
Kill knowledge of righteous enemy;
19 - 4
- If you desire to know something,
Know the path of the Almighty;
20 - 4
- If you desire to leave something,
Leave your ego – the hurdle clearly;
21 - 4
- If you desire to meet something,
Meet people with knowledge openly;
22 - 4
- If you desire to remove something,
Remove all your bad company;
23 - 4
- If you desire to run from something,
Run from the devotion’s enemy;
24 - 4
- If you desire to search something,
Search for good people genuinely;
25 - 4
- If you desire to see something,
See your wrong doings open-mindedly;
26 - 4
- If you desire to speak something,
Speak in a manner most softly;
27 - 4
- If you desire to stop something,
Stop unrestrained desires earnestly;
28 - 4
- If you desire to take something,
Take the pains of others totally;
29 - 4
- If you desire to weigh something,
Weigh your shortcoming simply;
30 - 4
- If you desire to be happy,
Give happiness to others selflessly;
31 - 4
- If you aspire to the very Divinity,
Relinquish all desires absolutely.
32 - 4