1) What use to look upon the past ?
So many years in idle ways you lost;You can't retrieve; so past is past;
The wrecks you can't set right.
In winter hope not for blossoms bright;
The lost vision of rain-bow dreams
A broken dome of hues it seems.
2) No tint of promising dawn for thee
A dusky sinking shade
Awaits--- no golden glade;
Harden thyself and see
Into the eyes of reality
No manna of mercy drops
No miraculous harvest of crops.
3) The faded leaf can't green itself
The bygone charm gone like an elf;
You can't rewind the long lost hours
You can't regain time-worn powers;
The spilt nectar sweet can't be sipt
You can't get back sweet moments slipt;
Don't look back since time is too swift.
4) Brace up and brave the storm
Life is not splendid calm;
Thy goal is nearing and no fears
For what is to be and no tears;
Beyond that precipice--no dread
No dithering tread-- all trepidations shed;
Like a bold lion leap ahead.
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27th May, 2015. Somaseshu Gutala
1) Miraculous harvest of crops : refers to the miracle of feeding four thousand
people by Jesus Christ, just from seven loaves near the sea of Galilee.
2) No manna of mercy : refers to God act of showering manna to save the
starving jews in the desert of Sinai.
3) Precipice : Steep rock.
4) Reference to Browning's poem "Prospice" which means examine the past and
look forward.
The poet says : " I was ever a fighter, so --one fight more
The best and the last".
" For sudden the worst turns best to the brave."
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