T.A.RAMESH

T.A.RAMESH

SMILING GANDHI

Non-Violence and Truth were the weapons

Gandhi used to get freedom for India;

Fasting was the method he adopted for all

As Non-Cooperation against the Foreign Rulers,

Following simple living and high thinking measures

As his mark of culture that made Gandhi a Mahatma.

Now Mahatma Gandhi smiles at the economy

Of the nation in all the Currencies of India

As without village development India cannot achieve

The stipulated economic targets of the nation;

For, “India lives in her villages,” said Gandhi

Long, long ago to one and all in India!

For fair democratic development advised Gandhi to start

New political parties disbanding Freedom Party;

But contrarily for catching votes followed politicians

Political parties under the same banner of the old party;

So, only corruption, casteism and favoritism thrive now

In all walks of life leaving the nation at the back burner.

“See not, hear not and speak not Evil things” are symbolized

Through Mahatma’s Dolls of Monkey to the people;

But contrary to this, people use democratic rights wastefully

Degrading the hard earned freedom by him,

Leaving Gandhi just to smile from above the sky forever

As he does in all the Currencies of the nation!

So, Education without Character, Politics without Principles

And Freedom without Discipline cannot achieve his Dream;

Remembering this in mind, let us honor the Mahatma

By following his ideals in life in the true spirit

So that Gandhi Nation can lead to peace and prosperity

All the nations of the world as One Nation!

GODS AND GODDESSES ONE GREAT POWER!

Bead-String in one hand and Book in another hand

Goddess Saraswathi sits on a White Lotus

Victoriously invoking art with her beautiful Veena

Eternally divine notes infinite

To grace the ardent one with knowledge to stand in this world

And have a permanent place in that world!

Sitting on a Pink Lotus Goddess Lakshmi shines bright

In all her glory wearing Ornaments of Gold and Diamonds

Gracing the suitably great persons with

Progress, prosperity and wealth;

Briefly, beautiful Sri Lakshmi symbolizes all

Wealth, comfort and jollity wherever she is present!

Goddess Sakti majestically sits on the Red Lotus with

A Trisul in one hand and a Tambourine in another hand

Ready to slay down the formidable foes,

Who act arrogantly against dharma in the world;

Also, without Sakti no one can survive fighting

Courageously against adharma in the world!

So, Saraswathi is the source and for the development of

Knowledge for everyone in the world;

Lakshmi is the source and for the development of

Wealth for everyone in the world;

And Sakti is the source and for the development of

Power for everyone in the world!

Without knowledge creation of any kind

Cannot be good and great;

Without wealth protection of lives

Cannot last longer;

Without power destruction of evil

Cannot be perfectly complete!

To accomplish those aspects the Consorts of these Goddesses,

Brahma, Vishnu and Siva are there respectively

Looking after the duties of Creation, Protection and Destruction

Both in the world and in the Universe

In many Forms of Incarnations variously pointing out

The One All Pervading Great Power!

Four Vedas in the four hands of the four headed Brahma

Sits on a beautiful Lotus Flower,

Whose stem is connected to

The abdominal navel point of Lord Vishnu

Doing the duty of creation of Stars, planets

And living beings in the Universe!

Lord Vishnu reclining over the five headed Snake Bed

Comforted by the hand pressings of Lakshmi of His leg calves,

And surrounded by the Gods of Heaven ponders over

The ways to protect the Good against the Bad

Keeping ever ready in His hands weapons like

Chakra, Conch and Club to do His duty of protecting dharma!

Sitting on the highest Snow Mountain top

In a best possible yogic position

With a String of Beads, Holy Water Pot

And Trisul in His hands

Lord Siva coolly calculates each and everything

And performs His duty of destruction in time!

Nine and One Nights!

Music, song and dance in all the nine nights

With a grand finale on the tenth finishes happily

Navarathri and Dussehra for the work and victory of

The year in Spring, Summer and Autumn before Winter.

Everyday as ants men toil under the hot sun,

That dries the land and boils the ocean annually;

Never the less "It's a natural phenomenon,”

Men heave a sigh of relief after a long travail!

But the grass hoppers of them coolly spend in gambling

Time, wealth and energy till they become bankrupt;

Naturally how can the ant entertain the hopper in the winter?

Nine and one nights, the bridge between the vestige

Of the summer and the beginning of winter in the year

Reminds men to prepare ready to face all rigors of

The darkness of the mind in the coming dark cold nights.

For the last quarter to win in the quarrels with the evils

both fanciful and fantastic ensuring final victory to the good.

Why the good only should win and survive ever?

If the good wins the whole world will survive for ever.

A colossus, the creature of evil may look to be;

Yet there is an end for all that goes beyond all limits.

Instance: The celebration of Dussehra in memory

Of the slaying of Maheshasura, a formidable Asura

By the Universal Mother Goddess in the legendary age.

Nine nights in nine exquisite attires the Goddess appears

And on the 10th day kills the formidable foe of the universe.

Perhaps this is the reason moods of men are also nine,

And the nine moods of men make the nature of man.

If not courage, anger, hatred; calmness, lust, fear;

And mercy, humor, wonder, what else it could be?

Beside zero Natural Numbers are also nine;

Effective gems are usually numbering nine;

For, perhaps the planets are also nine in number!

The full circle zero adds power to all numbers;

Though nothing it makes all numbers powerful!

Education, knowledge and art make one wise;

Money, property and gold make one solid;

Courage, boldness and bravery make one strong;

Combination of these nine make one complete

Capable of tackling human life in any situation!

Knowledge, wealth and power three in one make one thrive

As creation, preservation and destruction of God's natural act!

Hence circling round the temple thrice or 9 has become a custom!

But one complete circle comprises of all nine in one too!

Nine planets without the one Sun are nothing in the Solar system!

Nine planets with the Sun only make one complete system.

Perhaps nine and one nights also follow this magic system!

Dark and cold circumstances give weakness and fear

To the meek to think about fate and destiny

Leading the thought process to hopelessness and death.

But to the alert, balanced and disinterested minds

Hot or cold, day or night is one and the same;

This attitude for a person of aptitude is the fortitude

Called resourcefulness one learns from all failures.

So, first preparation for the worst gives power

To face adversities for the rest even for the poor.

THE ISLAND OF MY DREAM!

A snoring sleep I slept before I left

For the island of my dream I wished to see.

Elated to the top I fly high in the air to

The island of my dream I cherish most

On a journey of a dream to the dreamland coast!

In the Space millions of miles I travel to the cynosure

Crossing many Milky Ways containing clusters of galaxies;

All the way light and dark sensations dazzle fast the vision

And pass through air, clouds, gases, vacuum and dust particles

Accompanying blasting noises and eerie silence from distance to distance

As if moving from hell to heaven and heaven to hell at the flicker of a moment!

This cynosure, the island in the Universe is like an Octopus or a Crab

That holds the Ocean of Universe by its countless tentacles!

It is a circle with the centre as the island and the circumference everywhere!

I see snow capped mountains like the Alps or the Everest,

Where people live in caves and play games in glittering colors!

In the middle of the mountain slopes, volcanoes erupt fires

Of gold, diamonds, silver, mercury, sulphur and minerals,

That fall with the water falls and roll along with the ocean

To make the water sweeter and solve water scarcity problem!

The people along the bank cast the net and collect fish and treasures;

For food, dress and shelter they make use of them skillfully

And children collect the diamonds on the sea shore to satisfy their curiosity!

The breeze through trees of the forests spreads aromatic fragrance!

The beautiful birds swim in the misty lakes here and there!

The dappled deer leap with joy and pleasure in the vast plains!

The bluish green peacocks dance with spread wings in the colorful gardens!

The beautiful birds fly happily singing sweet songs in lovely melodies!

And nothing but joy, enthusiasm and peace prevail everywhere!

The beautiful cynosure, the island… is it simply Nature or God or Paradise?

It is everything in one in infinity and eternity beyond words to describe;

So, it is beyond my intuitional power to describe everything here.

THREE WHITE HORSES!

Born free are the white horses numbering

three in the picture on the wall;

Pure as milk white they represent

yesterday, today and tomorrow

Grazing green grass on the grazing ground

of the everlasting earth!

The past has just about to have left

unheard, unknown and unseen;

The present is glaringly

heard, known and seen in the middle;

And the future is not yet

heard, known and seen right!

The present with the past and the future

in the left and right

minds only what’s before it;

The present neither knows the past

nor bothers to know the future;

The position of the present is such that

it makes hay while the Sun shines!

Pegasus the flying horse was the legend

of yesterday;

Puritan is the best bet for the Jackpot

in the horse race today;

Perhaps Blue Pegasus may be the one to reach

the Stars in the Space tomorrow!

The legendary King Vikramadhitya had a flying horse,

A rare gift, it seemed to be in the golden period of India.

Now we don’t have such wise kings to rule the world;

And the flying horses too cannot be seen anywhere on the earth!

Now in the age of science and technology animals and men

are almost replaced by machines;

And the chance of any horse playing prominence

is made purposeless except in ceremonies!

Merely the power of the machines is measured

in terms of so many horses;

So, only the name of white horse is seen

in the labels of materials and machines!

The legendary Aurora arrives in a chariot

driven by seven white horses

Representing the seven colors of a rain bow,

an image impossible to ignore!

How beautiful, majestic and wonderful

this legendary God of Dawn, the Sun is!

The symbol of victory represents Lord Krishna and Arjuna

on a chariot pulled by four white horses;

Lord Krishna preached Bhagavat Gita on this symbolic

chariot on the battle of Kurukshetra;

Even today this symbolic preaching is

cherished in memory and followed in practice!

Whether it is 1 or 3, 4 or 7 white horse is a symbol

representing many immortal things to man;

Hence simply white horse means the symbol of

the past, the present and the future.

Perhaps the three white horses of the picture

denote the Trinity of the World Religion

Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, the symbol of

Creation, Preservation and Destruction;

And their consorts, Saraswathi, Lakshmi and Parvathi

represent Knowledge, Wealth and Power.

The will of Nature too orders all beings undergo

the process of birth, life and death,

The three stages constituting the complete life.

The Trinity is the principle of the Universe too;

Nothing but Space, Energy and Matter are

what the whole of the Universe is!

The past is not dead and gone;

The past is still present in the present.

The present is not present always;

So also the future is not far away;

And any moment the future will become the present!

The past, the present and the future are not separate entities;

They are the three phases of the one and the same Time-Spirit.

Only the moment the Matter is formed

in the Space, Time-Spirit is realized!

This Time-Spirit was there, is there and will be there;

This one and the only Spirit is manifesting

as Space, Matter and Time;

And this Spirit is the cause and the conclusion

of Space, Matter and Time!

T.A.RAMESH

T.A.RAMESH: Born on 28th August 1950 Author Ramesh Thumati Alagarsamy, after working as an industrialist in Sri Lakshminarayana Industries for 22 years, is occupied with writing poems and essays since 1989 and has become a Writer Publisher at Halo Papers, India publishing books from 1996 onwards; from 2005 he is occupied with publishing his poems and articles on internet; from 2005 on he has become a world website poetry writer. He has written about 92 English Books such as novel, short stories, non-fiction ones and poetry books. Achievement Awards: He is honoured with Best English Book Author Award by Sourashtra Community Welfare Chamber in 2005, elected as Poet of the Year 2010 for his fine philosophic poetry by the readers of www.coffeeconnectionpoets.com , honoured as Best Writer in English with Sourashtrian Achievers Award  by BVK-SITCON committee at Madurai in 2013, also honoured with a prize of $250 for winning in www.poemhunter.com Poetry Contest in September 2013. Anthologies and Videos: Further his  poems are published in Poetry Anthologies like The Enchanting Verses International and Conifers Call magazine and Fiesta of Love (Songs of Loving Hearts) and his poems such as Colourful Flowers (2009) and Water of Life (2009) are released as Poetry Videos on www.youtube.com and www.myspace.com.  He is also honoured with the publication of poems in Romanian language in 2014 in Geneza Visurilor, an Anthology of International Poetry. From 2015 on his poems are published in Our Poetry Archive for the promotion of world peace and unity against racism and terrorism and also from 2016 on his poems are published in Pentasi B World Friendship Poetry website! Country of Origin: INDIA; Mother Tongue: Sourashtra; Nationality: Indian; Place of Living: Pondicherry