Mask

Half dozen masks I do have

You want to see that?

I do wear as I wish

You want to see that?

 

Cheeks are red, lips wide spread

She has got it Stealing mine.

But she is my cousin.

How can I not… Feel happy.

You want to see that?

 

I stand in front

Look straight and bold and tell

I can do. but

Heart beats inside.

No one hears that.

You want to see that?

 

I do frown and hide my pleasure

When the naughty little one

Try to hide what she does.

The clever little imp is always like that.

Standing there As If she fears.

I can’t avoid.  As I want not to spoil her.

You want to see that?

 

I did the same to my mom

Feeling sorry for what happens

But did that happen

It’s done.

But I do stand as If afraid

You want to see that?

 

Tears roll down

weeping for a day when

Granny passed away

Don’t know why

You want to see that?

 

Calm is my face, Lips so tight.

But eyes are steady.  I hold her hand

In the sick room, I am with you.

To cry and to care.

In a minute I come out,

Off the room and off the mood.

But it gives healing.

You want to see that?

 

What did you said

See the face

Alas, It is my privacy

Prince Siddhartha

Once upon a time, in a small kingdom, there lived the little prince Siddhartha. He is a smart and lovely child. And is kind to all. One day prince Siddhartha was wondering in the wood immersed in the natures beauty.  He saw a beautiful swan flying. “This should be coming from heaven, I believe.”

At the time a hunter spotted the Swam. He doesn’t see the beauty, nor does he see the life in the swan. He shoot the swan to show his sport.  The hurt swan stumbled, but still tapped its wing to escape. It could not help itself and fell down at Siddhartha feet.

Shocked by the terrible event, he took the bird in his hand and removed the arrow. “Oh poor swan”, he patted. He took it home and gives medicine and food to it. The swan slowly recovered. On seeing this the hunter want to posses this now. To have the pretty swan as his cage bird.

He moved to the court with a compliant that prince Siddhartha has stolen his swan. The hunter fighted, “It is mine. I shoot it”.  The wise men in the court enquired both and come to know what happened. They said that the hunter has shooted and hurt the bird where as prince Siddhartha has saved it. He has the right to keep the bird.

Prince Siddhartha said, “the swan has the right over itself, as it id his life. Since I love the swan I let it free”.  The swan fly so high in the sky it looks as if it is going to the heaven.

Later prince Siddhartha becomes a great sage and the world knows him as Lord Buddha.

Mirror

Standing before Firm and study I Asked

Show me thy Master, The MAN

Who tilted the earth and created the world

 

Civilization was my gift

I the MAN

Show me thy Master,

Who mended the world

 

For all the works the MAN has done.

hunter and found  cuisines

weave cloth and developed fashion.

laid road on forest and found cities

flights and fights, journeys

war and peace, the law

discoveries inventions and what else

 

Perhaps I should clean this mirror sparkling

To see thy self as more glories

For what I have done

What’s the dual image I see

I should clean this to see Myself

For what I have done

 

Here stands me with the head so high

but whats the second image

tiny but not less

moving around quick and steady

doing something

That should be something less

I should clean this to see

what’s the lesser work before me.

 

ha, was she with me all these days!

Nappinai

What does this mean! This could be something you have not heard of so far. or some of you could have heard of this with Aandal.  Nappinai is not Aandal,  but an expression she used in her pasuram (HYMS).

Waite, I am not going to talk about any spiritual aspect or of Aandals literary merits. I love literary works a lot and do will blog about the works I enjoy. What’s there to blog if literature is excluded. But I do not give this name for literature too. What made me choose this is the meaning.

Nappinai is the personification of the universe as a women. This personification makes me feel that the universe is so close to me. It just comes as a friend, as a fellow women, as my child and as my mother. This personification gives a feel that the entire universe is mine and creates a strong love for everything in this universe. I tend to explore more of this. Thus I start my blog in my journey to explore the external world.