“We love things which look beautiful
Or things which are useful.
And when things lose beauty
Or turn useless,
The love evaporates.”
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, an eminent scholar and poet from India shares his Poems ‘Love’ and ‘Smile’
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand is President of the International Academy of Ethics. He is author of 160 plus books in English poetry, fiction, non-fiction, philosophy and spirituality. The Academy of Arts and Philosophical Sciences, Bari (Italy) honored him with the prestigious position of Honorable Academic. He was awarded Charter of Morava, the great International Award in Creativity by Serbian Writers Association, Belgrade at the 60th Belgrade International Writers Meeting (Oct 2023), and his name was engraved on the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. Recently, he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy [Honoris Causa] by the University of Engineering and Management, Jaipur. His most phenomenal book is Lustus: The Prince of Darkness [first epic of the Mahakaal Trilogy]. Email: anandjs55@yahoo.com
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LOVE comments of human love and Gods love for his creation
When we lose beauty, or utility, our worldly partners discard us. Animals whom we love when they give milk are sold out to slaughter houses. But God is a different kind. When we lose all powers of perception and become utterly useless, he silently calls us to his enclosure under the earth
LOVE
We love things which look beautiful
Or things which are useful.
And when things lose beauty
Or turn useless,
The love evaporates.
But men and women
When fall in love,
These benchmarks of
Beauty and utility
Turn irrelevant.
Love like hope springs eternal
In human heart
And stays
Even when cheeks lose glow
And winds lose their blow.
Offspring is loved by the living species
But when parents grow old,
Or if some accident
Breaks a child beyond repair,
How long can love be stretched?
Animals are loved only so long
As they give milk.
Or they have enough strength
In their knees to pull the carts,
Before being sold out to the slaughter house
Love of this land has its limitations
Even men and women who love
Sometimes find it a burden
And rush to the courts.
Who carries a relation reduced to a carcass?
Earth is a different type of mother
And God a doting father
Who call to their embrace
Voyagers whose boats were broken
Before they could cry “Eureka”.
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SMILE is a poem which philosophizes how a man should conduct himself in the cosmic society if he wants God’s love and reach his Golden Tent.
SMILE
I received an invitation
From God.
I wondered what gift I should carry.
The greatest gift for
The living father
Was his son’s smiling face
I bought some smiles
From a flower shop
And thought it would do
I was surprised
It did not impress God
And he turned me back
On my return journey
He changed the entire environment
And thought now the smile would be original.
On the earth,
I visited some other shops
But every time I was turned back.
At last God made me sit by him.
Simple, He said
Can you make my beings happy?
I poured some water
Into the drying roots of a few plants
And placed a small jar of water for pigeons
I took some sugar and poured it
On an ant hill,
They were so happy.
When cuckoo sang,
And when I saw squirrels
God saw a smile on my face
And lovingly he called me
To His golden tent
To stay there forever.
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