Tune of merriment blowing breeze
Roars crash flashes senses seize
Splashes play joyful jittery sound
Swaying Redwood Pines earthly bound
Soothe suspended shivering night
Quiet loud flickering candle light
Peeps in the wintry freezing cold
Clutch close the blanket one more fold
-r_Prab
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Year by year came and went
Wandering in life was all that meant
By grace so kind though at the end
Miracle! To find one true a friend
Winged words from mind and tales to tell
As if have known for eons so well
Divine The Force can only send
Blessings! To meet such true a friend
-r_Prab
*The poem expresses the joy and exhilaration of meeting a true friend. I have had many such experiences and feel very proud about it. I think friendship is the most wonderful of all relationships. Even in our father, mother, brother, sister, husband or wife, we seek a ‘friend’. Realizing that we have a true friend/s gives unparalleled joy.
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Doing the new
Tried by few
Different from mass
Drab Dismal class
Stamp it down; crush
Ahead, ahead you rush
In clouds you rise
Tear the skies
Look not below
Uninspiring, the slow
The grand summit’s view
Deserves only you!
-r_prab
Image credits: Jay Alders
Dear WordPress why ye disappear
Words I etched with stones so clear
It’s not sound it’s not fair
My words you dissolve in thin air
Long a spell away from home
Reading blogs along I roam
Express when I of love and care
My words you dissolve in thin air
Kins and comrades figures in space
jovial familiar charming grace
Friendly pleasantries when I share
My words you dissolve in thin air
And when with mirth a friendly note
Came and quick I neatly wrote
Back and then I saw nowhere
My words you dissolved in thin air.
-r_prab
(PS: For a long time, the office works clogged me from returning to blogging. But I used to roam around and read blogs. Unfortunately, some of my comments disappeared immediately after I posted on someone’s post. Sometimes it stayed and that was fine. But the disappearing comments made me crestfallen. I still find the ailment persisting in WordPress. It is disappointing.)
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Once in a blue moon
torrents of rain
clutching the earth fast
tides in vain.
Once in a blue moon
stranger, a face
hazy, the fog white
longing embrace.
Once in a blue moon
darkness the cloud
roaring the flash light
whispers so loud.
Once in a blue moon
silence descends
surreal alone white
quiet; it ends.
– r_prab
Image credits: johneaglephoto.com
When I had read Alexander Pope’s poem Ode on Solitude, for the first time, I was deeply touched. The poem not just conveyed the felicity of a solitary existence, it also reverberated with my idea of simplicity in life.I have, since, read it several times and often quote its lines in my writings and conversations.
I find this poem a lyrical piece of wisdom, that educates about a peaceful life, where one lives “..In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day, Sound sleep by night” It continues to be one of my close to the heart poems.I am glad to share it today for the word prompt Kinaadman– knowledge, wisdom.
by Alexander Pope
In response to Word-High July: 30 Beautiful Filipino Words: Kinaadman
Down the peaks of snowy hill
Smooth meandering pebbles fill
The rustle of babbling watery roar
Flowed the stream white and pure
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And moss like carpets across spread
Herbal saplings along it bred
Carrying the powers to heal and cure
Flowed the stream white and pure.
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-r prab
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(Footnotes: The reminiscence of this scenery comes from a trip to the foothills of the Himalayas, which my elder brother took me to. The clear stream that emerged from the melting glaciers upstream, came flowing at the foothills with all its purity still intact. My brother informed me that the water of the stream had medicinal values too as it had several herbal plants along its way. We filled our water bottles from that stream. It surely was pure and cold and refreshing! )
(Source of above image : Mountain Stream )
In response to Word-High July: 30 Beautiful Filipino Words: Dalisay
