What's before us
is quite enough
why look over the fence
seeking an unknown stuff?

here is the supreme test
though it's rough and tough
when self has overcome itself
it leaves no gulf.

Not yet
wait

With the child
it takes time to grow
but much longer
for the adult to be so

Come to me in the dearest cheer of spring's happiness
visit me in the bleakest hour of lonely winter
as my mood in autumn sinks into gentle greyness
I'll reflect upon the sunshine of summer-

life is enshrined in every season's splendour
how love bursts into song in the heart of the lover
when I fade away as the last flowers in slumber
memories of me will you still treasure?

On nothing does emptiness anchor
      yet space infinite is under its cover

Disease is wanting
     such knows no ending

The most profound lessons
      are found in solitude
      beyond thought and reason
      what's there to dispute?

Knowledge might be clever
but it doesn't deliver

I stare at the ocean
and it, at me
a common bond we share
in mystery

Beware of logic
its role is to trick

Even the best scholar does not score
    the enlightened person understands more

The mind that's over-active
           ceases to be creative

Nothing to vie, defy or deny
  I've abandoned the troublesome 'I'

For the ease of living of every person
stay calm-- don't be overwrought
problems are as common
as pebbles-- though never sought

what will hold me in balance
is my faith and patience in heart and thought
letting go in humility and nonchalance
what has gone before I cheerfullyforgot

What am I?
never mind
I've no name

you do not see my face
a nobody of the human race

yet I breathe and move
invisible in every place

I have life
am never static
though to no abode
do I stick


I drift and I wander
in infinite space


I am change
constant flux
transformation
a crossover from yesterday
a moment in time's spectrum
a bridge to future's way

whether night or day
in silence you can feel me
in the smile of the child
the warmth of the mother
holding her tiny one
the  kind stretching hand
reaching out to the destitute
the lonely, the desolate
the marginalised
the forgotten women and men

the stars and the moon
they keep me company

like all of you
sadness moves me
to tears-
mankind lives
in melancholy

at the deepest hour of night
when gentle breezes distil the air
you would find my whisper there

The self needs
   an inner hideaway
   dark secrets it holds
   which must be kept at bay

   they gnaw and they fester
   afraid to surface in the light of day
   life is lived in lies and deceit
  fear makes the person its perpetual prey

A name---its role
  is to individualise
  cave-people never knew such
  others they didn't agonise

  when I see you
  a human being I recognise
   I need no name--just call me ' Friend'
  that would more than suffice.

The mind
is a foreign land
to the heart-
its language the latter
can't understand

question not
in what direction
love would bend

it has no explanation
either at start or end

only at the periphery
does the mind holds its stand
the heart is the owner's continent.

A rhymed* life? hardly
only that in jagged lines
wrongly tuned and notes
dissonant as in a marred symphony

a charmed*  life?  who said?
dreams appear to disintegrate
love is a short-staying visitor
farewell it too quickly bade

a tranquil life? don't you believe
storms bellow in hours successive
night is dreary, long and sombre
the restless heart knows no relief

a meaningful life? here the sage does lie
most struggle and ***** without purpose
the voice of the poets is muzzled in despair
with silent tears they write their heartbroken verse.

..by which time
  the river has run its course

  by which time
  winter has smothered
  the last autumn rose

  by which time
  all leaves have turned grey
  the barren garden has nothing to pose

by which time
the stars have grown weary
not a single light--beam glows

by which time
love has its farewell bade
all feelings wither and close

You’ll love
Somehow
You’ll love
At last            (copyright of Jen's)
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For love
so long I did search
in patience I waited
for it to perch
on the nest of my heart-
never mind if it should come
at its chosen time
from hope I will not part

if such love were true
we'll love at last
though it be the latest
winter hour--
this is the ultimate test
of our unfailing trust.

How sad!---a friend now
     could be a future enemy
     it's as though the sky has fallen down
    wouldn't life but be a travesty!

When I think
   that I know what I know
   I should stop-  it's a telling sign
  I can't afford to ignore

The bright side of things
     is not externally grounded
     it's not a product of circumstance
     but is internally generated

They have the power
but I don't cower!

The cleavage
doubt and certainty
a no-way passage
in life's unknowable journey

How come
   the present does seem
   remote and the long
   past as though recent?
   yet looking at the prism
   of time, the future
   appears to have happened
   in conjecture and imagination

   not three
  but a single person
  living in three dimensions
  
  what counts above all
  is individual freedom
  assured so seldom--
  too many indeed
  are trapped in self-prison

  to make sense
of this perpetual conundrum
a long net of life
I'll hurl to harness
the divisive
and have it transformed
into a single collective
I'll know sans doubt then
I've arrived at the wholesome.

I don't need to assert
      in no way am I an expert

The mind is not one's continent
      it's in truth world-resonant

I'll not beg
     even hungry I were
     though deprived
     I'll endure!

Many who are smart
fail to find the success-path

It's dreadful drug--success
         in excess it's untold distress

Beyond the power of spending
         money accounts for nothing

The unknown
      is to be treasured
      the known has been
      discovered and measured

Minding my own business
   is enough angst
   minding others'?
   no!   thanks, a million thanks!

Distance does not add enchantment
   rather ushers in abandonment

Much is to be said
   for the unsaid

If yourself you can contain
you would be inferior to no man.

Just as there are heroes
there should also be she-roes

...imagine you are taller
  in this wholesomeness
  you'd become your own wonder

Logic and reason
      is not life's most important lesson

People avoid the obvious
      they pursue the dubious

A fort it is
          to live in fortitude
          but first of all
          one would need the right attitude

For some
       it's hard to fail
        good luck intervenes
        they prevail!

To be first
after that I shouldn't hanker-
if I were last
I'd incur neither envy nor rancour

Be thankful when you've been rejected
you'd then have no reason to be dejected

I don't wish to be clever
           rather, jocular!

I can tolerate what's careless
but not that which is callous

This is almost everyone's philosophy:
what's in it for me?

Love is the key
      that opens every door
      it ushers in ecstasy
      the heart desires nothing more