[The Entropy]A Hundred Years from Today
Exibot
Great thoughts by one of the greatest philosophers of India. Let's read and ponder. I don't want to add my commentary to ruin the essence.
Recitation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01HNAQL-axU&feature=related
A hundred years from today
who are you, sitting, reading a poem of mine,
under curiosity’s sway -
a hundred years from today?
Not the least portion
of this young spring’s morning bliss,
neither blossom nor birdsong,
nor any of its scarlet splashes
can I drench in passion
and despatch to your hands
a hundred years hence!
Yet do this, please: unlatch your south-faced door,
just sit at your window for once;
basking in fantasy, eyes on the far horizon,
figure out if you can:
how one day a hundred years back
roving delights in a free fall from a heavenly region
had touched all that there was -
the infant Phalgun day, utterly free,
was frenzied, all agog,
while borne on brisk wings, the south wind
pollen-scent-brushed
had suddenly arrived and in a flash dyed the earth
with all youth’s hues
a hundred years before your day.
There lived then a poet, ebullient of spirit,
his heart steeped in song,
who wanted to open his words like so many flowers
with so much passion
one day a hundred years back.
A hundred years from today
who is the new poet
whose songs flow through your homes?
To him I convey
this springtime’s gladsome greetings.
May my vernal song find its echo for a moment
in your spring day
in the throbbing of your hearts, in the buzzing of your bees,
in the rustling of your leaves
a hundred years from today.
Comments
Whoa, what a poem!
Voted.
damn, i should have taken arts or some other interesting shit... x_x
very nice poem...great narration as well!
o7
Voted for those 100 Years! o7
ahh , amazing !
voted .
v+s
nice.
I got chills. Very nice!