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Post by darkness0within on Jun 28, 2018 6:50:38 GMT -6
This is a translation of a Sanskrit poem from antiquity. And is one of my favourite poems for it's beautiful simplicity.
Look to this day.
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendour of achievement
Are but experiences of time.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
And today well-lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day;
Such is the salutation to the ever-new dawn!
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Post by anirbas on Jul 1, 2018 19:42:48 GMT -6
I like this! It has a positive message.
I know sometimes I have to remind myself
to live in the moment. Truly the only thing
we have is this minute, this breath.
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Post by darkness0within on Jul 2, 2018 6:35:09 GMT -6
That's exactly why I loved this poem too anirbas.
I found this many years ago, and it struck a chord with me. And it is this one piece that perhaps started me writing poetry and stories. |
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Post by phantasm on Jul 9, 2018 14:16:12 GMT -6
Did you translate that yourself, get it from a book, or what?
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Post by darkness0within on Jul 9, 2018 15:08:32 GMT -6
Did I translate it? No.
I found it in an old book many years ago in the early 70's phantasm. Before the internet really took off. It can be found easily on the net now
As I said it struck a chord with me at the time... As it does now.
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