Showing posts with label Resilience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Resilience. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 April 2017

PUNGAI TREE


The warring sun fills the sky


And its crimson wrath drives the blue away


As green withers to brown


And lakes and streams vanish


The barren hills glow


The parched plains pant


Unfettered by this solar malady


Fed by some mysterious spring


Fresh, green and full of blossoms


The graceful  Pungai tree!






Friday, 12 April 2013

TRANQUIL CACTUS


In this hotness of the raging summer


Days and nights go by


The hills and plains are left  dry  


The bushes and grasses whither


In the cracking cakes of  parched soil


Leafless trunks are scattered


There is empty blueness in the vast cloudless sky


Yet! Within the thorny greenness of the resilient cactus!


The tranquil water reigns!

Thursday, 1 December 2011

LONESOME TREE


A lonesome tree, by  the desert plain


Left to the winds; in the wait for the rain


In dried up sorrow, and leafy tears


For better fortunes; hopes and fears


Violent gales, in a stormy weather


Hateful heat; at the verge to whither


Yet rooted to ground reality ; you silently hold on !


Nourished by life’s essence, that you have found


In Compassionate water; deep to the rocky ground!


With flexible shoots that, bend and heed


Perennial springs that, lovingly feed


And mighty roots gripping the grounded truth


No one can shake you !


Neither storms nor floods can change your course


No droughts can dry you up with remorse


Oh lonesome tree by the desert plain!

  
How mighty is your resilience!



Friday, 22 July 2011

RESILIENCE


Glory to the human spirit! Glory to its brilliance!
 
Glory to the root of sentience! Glory to its resilience!

Like the woody dry barks that crack and break away

While the lush green bamboo stays and sways

 Thou remains flexible in difficult ways

Like the grass with a strong roots, that tides over the forest flame

And grows again greener with the coming of the passing rain

Rooted in virtue and value, thou grows back right away

Like the sky that is filled with clouds of colour, and clouds of gray

Yet holding on to none as they pass away

Thou accepts moribund reality and lets sadness go away

Like the perennial spring, that feeds the mind river

That taps into the water, while all the rest has dried away

Thou keeps Hope going, even when all reason has gone away

Thus is the driver, of the root of sentience 

Thus is the spirit of human nature 

Fighting the odds of a billion to one

Striving along in a world of all or none

Thus is the way of human resilience

Glory to the root of sentience!! Glory to its brilliance

Glory to the human spirit!! Glory to its resilience!!