O Buddha ! I do wish to follow your golden middle path
And wish not to attach with the mundane avarice ,
So in the river of your wisdom everyday I take a bath
And meditate upon you and try to follow your advice .
Path between extreme self indulgence and self mortification
But o Buddha ! yet I know not extreme of any of my sides ,
So with my own wisdom I am doing some deliberation
And want to see my extremes of these worldly tides .
For then only , I will know you and what is this extreme
And where stands your so called golden middle path ,
For I know you too was like me and too swam in this stream
And then you discovered the painful mundane swath .
So don’t be surprised if you see me touching the extreme ,
For only then I will bow and then will believe in your beam .
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Шакалы
- Омар Хайям – Если счастлив от счастья
- Mingus At The Showplace by William Matthews
- Past and Future by Sarojini Naidu
- Elegy on the Year 1788 by Robert Burns
- The Pact by Sharon Olds
- Far Within Us #4 by Vasko Popa
- To The Serpent
- Николай Глазков – Размышленья
- On Receiving Heyne’s Virgil From Mr. Hayley by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: Wha Is That At My Bower-Door:
- Ольга Берггольц – Она дарить любила
- The Gardener XIX: You Walked by Rabindranath Tagore
- Яков Полонский – Полонский здесь не без привета
- Jonathan: The First Booke by William Alexander
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
