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| A poet reprimanded |
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| jaihoon |
| 12/18/04 at 14:30:07 |
| A poet reprimanded *************** http://www.jaihoon.com/egoptics/market.htm On day while shopping in the market I was asked to name a natural product Unaware, I kept my helpless silence Not a word I had in defense And then a voice spoke in reprimand It sounded soft but not far from command "You are versed in the world of thought You know to quote well from the wise lot You seem to know too much But from simple names you're out of touch You poets speak of the rose and nightingale Yet not a flower's name in the garden can you hail You wander in the valleys of heavenly thoughts Pity! You are dry from the waters of the spring of life Ignorant of the affairs of the earth on which you walk Your heart is turned to the world full of vain talk Jaihoon! I am a simple-minded slave of God Who on the clouds of wisdom have not rode Yet I know the names of every eatable fruit For which many thanks for the God I have got." - Jaihoon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes a natural product : a fruit. In the eyes of present commercial culture, every thing- natural or otherwise, is considered a product. wise lot: the learned ones rose and nightingale: commonly used symbols especially by mystic poets valleys of heavenly thoughts: The reference is to a verse of Holy Quran which calls poets as those who roam in valleys and talk of things they do not practice affairs of the earth: day-to-day realities of practical life. |
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