My New Year
K. Radhakumar *
A New Day dawns;
The clear sky shines
With a bright vision of the future.
My little garden, a mass of colour
Tends to have a civilizing influence on me.
The dark days are over.
I wish!
Is it possible
I wake to a shining sky
To make a fresh start
With no insecure feeling of homelessness,
A hangover from childhood
Like a bitter taste
Left in the mouth by black coffee?
Is birth a beginning
A waking to life,
And death an end
A farewell to life?
The beauty of lengthening life
Beyond birth and death,
The facet of eternity
In our universe of
Spatial and temporal dimensions!
This beautiful morning greets me
With a smile
And I smile back –
We exchange greetings
And sit down to breakfast.
I live surrounded by love and kindness
And with beautiful things
In beauty it is finished.
A poem of one word!
That's all.
One word of Truth,
Of Beauty
And of Goodness
Makes all the difference.
If one thinks life is funny and meaningless
One has a very misplaced sense of humour.
Happy New Year!
Three words only
Old but not trite
Simple and straight to the heart.
That's the beauty.
I wish you a happy New Year.
My dearest wish
Is to be the boy
That I was again
Not to start afresh
But to look ahead
And be one with the world.
In my dream last night
The genie granted me three wishes.
One was about birth,
Another about death
And the third one's forgotten.
In the dreamlike state
Between waking and sleeping
And between sleeping and waking
I am drunk with
The joy of the forgotten wish.
* Poem written by K. Radhakumar which was published at The Sangai Express
This poem was posted on January 08, 2017.
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