Live for the moment

[dibyendra]

(i)

Put on some colorful desires,
Like the decorative wallpapers,
Covering the fragile emotions,
On the tainted walls of heart.

Don't kill yourself every moment,
Striving for beautiful tomorrows,
As your real existence is fleeting,
Burning your life in front of you.

(ii)

Don't let the fears obscure
The ethereal moments,
And don't be a stranger
To the passing moments,
That are embracing your life,
As every moment disappear,
Like they never existed before,
Never to come back again.

(iii)

Don't run too fast
to reach too far

ignoring your desires
and longings of your heart

to isolate yourself
on the zenith of success

hoping you will get a chance
to give them a life again

and to let them spread
their wings to fly, tomorrow.

(iv)

don't let the uncertainties gloom the brief joys
that bloom like a flower and radiate for a while.

just live for the moment forgetting the attachments
of yesterdays and uncertainties of unseen tomorrows

to elude from the mist of bewilderments and shackles
of fears to feel your breathing to realize your awakening

as the life is so unpredicatable and too short to enjoy it...

[Revolte]

Don't kill yourself every moment,
Striving for beautiful tomorrows,
As your real existence is fleeting,
Burning your life in front of you.



That won me over. I quite enjoyed this.

[hillwalker]

Yes. I also enjoyed these. There's a mystical wisdom running through the whole piece, and the simple style adds to its overall effectiveness.

It also pays to re-read them because there's more to these than meets the eye - beautiful language as well as a serene message.

H

[PrinceMyshkin]

I wonder if you might consider dropping the last line where the gentle urging of the poem becomes so overt and authoritative? Better to let us draw that conclusion from all the preceding lines and especially the ones preceding the last one.

[dizzydoll]

(i)

Put on some colorful desires,
Like the decorative wallpapers,
Covering the fragile emotions,
On the tainted walls of heart.

Don't kill yourself every moment,
Striving for beautiful tomorrows,
As your real existence is fleeting,
Burning your life in front of you.

(ii)

Don't let the fears obscure
The ethereal moments,
And don't be a stranger
To the passing moments,
That are embracing your life,
As every moment disappear,
Like they never existed before,
Never to come back again.

(iii)

Don't run too fast
to reach too far

ignoring your desires
and longings of your heart

to isolate yourself
on the zenith of success

hoping you will get a chance
to give them a life again

and to let them spread
their wings to fly, tomorrow.

(iv)

don't let the uncertainties gloom the brief joys
that bloom like a flower and radiate for a while.

just live for the moment forgetting the attachments
of yesterdays and uncertainties of unseen tomorrows

to elude from the mist of bewilderments and shackles
of fears to feel your breathing to realize your awakening

as the life is so unpredicatable and too short to enjoy it...

These are absolutely excellent poems. I love them so much. Humans find so much difficulty to live in the present NOW, in a state of happiness, for some reason. And some who do live in the present NOW prefer to do it under restriction, with consciousness of suffering. I cant stand it, you have no idea... its just so negative. Thank you so much for sharing these, you've made my day.

[MorpheusSandman]

I always hate to be the negative Ned, but I guess I'll be the dissenting voice. For me, these poems feel much too didactic. I can certainly admire the sentiment of the theme, but it's really all about finding a new way to express things that have been expressed a million times before. I'm of course reminded of the famous "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" and even Roger Waters' Time.

[dibyendra]

Thanks all for your comments! I appreciate comments and perceptions! I intended these poems to be motivating and philosophical rather than too poetic. I was just writing what I experienced in my life. Thanks again. :)

[blazeofglory]

dibyendra, the poet arrives now gallantly and I salute him for his humbler and deeper sense of living for the moment and and helping us live the present. Our obsession with the past, a dead part of life and the future, an uncertainty, an unknown, a world full of mazes.

All of us in a labyrinth of unknowns know nothing about what happens next. I wonder we all are here for a while and what for is a truth that always perplexes me. I try to anatomize my sense of life and in a while the wind of mystery sweeps me and a cloud of uncertainty, improbability shrouds me. I take refuge in Quantum physics and get lost in a whirlpool of reasons and empirical notions. I am an Epicurean by nature, a man of worldliness and yet the questioning me is always there in its full inert and unmanifest.

As dibyendra wanted it to be philosophical, I feel there is nothing unphilosophical and anything other than philosophical here. An eternal question he has so beautifully raised and the urge of him to live for the moment takes us to the truth we must stand by. If we want to be a happier and merrier in life.

My hat off to the poet for his marvelous poem

[dizzydoll]

Youre a very poetic writer Blaze and like you I resonate better with those who live in the present NOW. Its like living in a dream state in my current reality, like for now.. I watch the sea and dream, but I can do the same with everything I see, feel, touch, hear, taste. When are you going to submit some poems Blaze, or resubmit older ones if you wish? When?

[blazeofglory]

Youre a very poetic writer Blaze and like you I resonate better with those who live in the present NOW. Its like living in a dream state in my current reality, like for now.. I watch the sea and dream, but I can do the same with everything I see, feel, touch, hear, taste. When are you going to submit some poems Blaze, or resubmit older ones if you wish? When?

Thank duzzydoll for your inspiring words. In fact I began my writing with poetry. I started writing poetry when I was merely 9. I first religious and mainly devotional poems. You must have heard about great Sanskrit poems. I was familiar with them in my early formative years. I have read Vedic literature, very esoteric in point of fact. But my earlier poems were in Nepali. I have no confidence to write in English, a language I have yet to learn and naturalize. Maybe in future I will write the moment I feel I am mature enough to do so

[dibyendra]

Thanks Blazeofglory for appreciating this poem! You certainly have a nice command on the words and the language which can be felt while reading your comment and it was poetic too. I wrote these small pieces by getting inspired from the philosophy of OSHO!

[qimissung]

Poetically speaking I love the first and second poems. Philosphically speaking I like them all. I have to disagree with MorpheusSandman. Of course these themes have been written about before. It is really hard in this day and age to come up with a theme that hasn't.

Beautiful stuff, dib. Keep writing, thinking, posting.

[MorpheusSandman]

It's not about finding and/or writing about a theme that hasn't been written about before, but finding a way to make it feel new and fresh. If all a piece does is remind the reader of better pieces that are similar then I don't think it's done its job. I'm not saying every piece has to stand up to some ultra-high standard that some great writer set, but there's all kinds of ways to add color to what's already been done. Look at the love poetry of Neruda, for instance.