life on earth is poetry

the innate urge to unfold

its grace and beauty is poetry

poetry is the smile on a child’s lips

the thread that binds the whole of humanity

 

poetry is your lover’s first kiss

poetry is that pink envelope wherein treasured your love and its beauty

poetry is lover’s paradise

a perennial stream of boon and bliss

 

poetry is those intimate moments you share with your love with lips

locked and soul hugging each other

poetry is meadows and mountains, rivers and rivulets, deserts and oceans and all those which touch you, your heart and soul

with their spellbinding beauty

 

poetry is that old man’s love

who has lost his wife

the anguish, apathy and alienation of

man struggling to live a life

poetry is society, its values and beliefs

sorrows and happiness, unfulfilled desires, shattered dreams and dramas

and hope for a better life

 

when the earth romances with the first rain

the rays of the rising sun

embraces the blooming lotus, the dancing lily touches the silver moon, when joy and ecstasy know no bounds, when sorrows become too much to bear, the lines of poetry emerge and take you to a world

hitherto unknown

 

to all these i am a passive onlooker

living a prosaic life with no rhythm and rhyme

for me poetry is a lonely man’s lone walk

on the empty corridor of life

my poetry not with me

lost it way since

could not muster enough strength

to tell her i love you

for which i am not me all through

 

 

 

Your poem titled “The First Kiss” is a poem that sings hosanna on the magnificent value of poetry in the life of each and everyone of us.The language of poetry melts many hardened hearts,brings pure joy and bliss to one and all,creates waves of good feelings,paves the way for renaissance and revitalisation,generates positive vibes,moulds minds into storehouses of knowledge and wisdom,teaches invaluable lessons,imbibes in us love for nature and her surroundings,inserts in us a feeling of vitality and strength,inbulilds within us imagination,evokes in us aesthetic sensibility and artistic frame of mind and enfolds us with that tenderness,solace,tranquility and sublimity.Kudos to you for composing such a poem of tremendous value and suppleness.