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BELOW WILL BE SOME POEMS ~ OR SELECTED VERSES FROM POEMS OR IDEAS of the incomparable RABINDRANATH TAGORE, who, of course, won the NOBLE PRIZE for his work, "GITANJALI"....( MY REMARKS WILL BE INCORPORATED IN [[-]]) |
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[[BASED ON THE TRANSLATIONS OF William Radice from source book, "RABINDRANATH TAGORE: Selected poems"]]
"BRIDE"~~[[Selected Verses]]
"...I feel like a garland-seller, my wares examined
Tested for quality, coldly...
People here are like worms crawling between bricks,
There is no love, there is no gaity.....
At once the spies all around me rise like a storm
Swoop with their cruel authority.
They won't give love, they won't give light.
I feel all the time it would be good to die....
When will my evening come all playing end?
The cooling water quench all fire?
If anyone knows, tell me when.
[[I'M SURE MANY UNTOLD WOMEN THROUGHOUT WORLD HISTORY ~ RULED BY THE PATRIARCHAL INSENSITIVE SOCIETIES OF THIS SAME WORLD ~~HAVE FELT THE PATHOS & LAMENT OF THIS WOMAN, SO POIGNANTLY PORTRAYED BY THE POET....I, lebeau, WOULD ANSWER BY SAYING: When you follow in the footsteps of the savior (JESUS THE CHRIST) ~ who loves & cares for you as a person, not as an object, then your sadness of "non~love" will be turned by the refreshing cool waters of the joy of TRUE LOVE!!!]
"UNENDING LOVE" (Selected verses 1 & 3)
I seemed to have loved you in numberless forms, in numberless times,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spell-bound heart has made & remade the neckless of songs
That you take as a gift, wear around your neck in your many forms
In life after life, in age after age forever....
You & I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount
As the heart of time love for one another.
We have played alongside millions of lovers, we have shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell ~
Old love, but in shapes that renew & renew forever....
[[IF YOU GO TO...lebeau's web pages: "PUBLISHED POEMS" for 'ANASTASIA' or "SYNCHRONISTISTIC HAPPENINGS" for 'TRUE LOVE SYNCHS' or "PARANORMAL OCCURENCES" for 'THE GIFT OF ROSES' or even my short story about my true love spirit, "ANA & ME" I think you will get the flavor that TAGORE captures about love reappearing throughout the ages of time....]]
"BROKEN SONG" (The last verse of this rather long poem)
"...Only from a marriage of two forces does music arise in the world.
Where there is no love, where listeners are dumb, there never can be song."
[[I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THIS SENTIMENT: IT'S THE CREATIVE VIBRANT JUICES OF TWO FORCES (PERHAPS BUDS) WHEN COJOINED ~ CREATE THE FERTILITY NECESSARY FOR IT TO BLOSSOM FULLY....THAT IS THE REASON THAT GREAT POETS (WHO SYMBOLIZE GREAT 'LOVING' IDEAS) BURST INTO SONG ~ LIKE THE YEARNING FOR OUR GOD ~ THE FATHER OF ALL ~ TO BE WITH HIM IN UTTER BLISS ~ FOREVER & EVER....]]
"RECOVERY 14" (the full poem)
Every day in the early morning this faithful dog
Sits quietly beside my chair
For as long as I do not acknowledge his presence
By the touch of my hand.
The moment he receives this small recognition,
Waves of happiness leap through his body.
In the inarticulate animal world
Only this creature
Has pierced through good & bad and seen
Complete man.
Has seen him for whom
Life may be joyfully given,
That object of a free outpouring love
Whose consciousness points the way
To the realm of infinite consciousness.
When I see the dumb heart
Revealing its own humility
Through total self-surrender,
I feel unequal to the worth
His simple perception has found through the nature of man.
The wistful anxiety in his mute gaze
Understands something he cannot explain:
It directs me to the true meaning of man in the universe.
>>>NOTES BY RADICE<<< The essential quality in man is thus revealed in self-sacrifice, subordination of individual desires to the needs & ideals of humanity as a whole....TAGORE is saying that the dog directs us to what human personality makes us acquainted with the universe: i.e. it is through human personality, consciousness, love, self-sacrifice, creativity that we become acquainted with the personality of God himself. Thus 'the truth of the universe is human truth'....
[[MY ONLY COMMENT IS TO SEE MY "UNPUBLISHED POEM":
"ME DoGs" since I think DoGs are the mirror image of GoD!]] |
