Lyrics of Life

Not the attendance of stones,  nor the applauding wind,  shall let you know  you have arrived,  not the sea that celebrates  only departures...

Even here, you are growing. When August is approaching and you feel a little restless thinking about how this month might end and how this y...

Rent a house near the beach, or a cabin but: Do not take your walking shoes. Don’t take any clothes you’d wear anyplace anyone would see you...

Tell them that I stood in line and I waited and I waited like everybody else But I never got called And I keep that scrap of paper in my poc...

लाल ज़री अरबी लोगों में कहावत थी कि जब कोई अजनबी दस्तक दे तुम्हारे दरवाज़े पर, तो उसे तीन दिनों तक खिलाओ-पिलाओ… यह पूछने से पहले कि वह कौन है,...

Say when rain cannot make you more wet or a certain thought can’t deepen and yet you think it again: you have lost count. A larger amount is...

Traveling through the dark I found a deer dead on the edge of the Wilson River road. It is usually best to roll them into the canyon: that r...

Then the flowers became very wild because it was early September and they had nothing to lose they tossed their colors every which way over ...

To enjoy fireworks, you would have to have lived a different kind of life. --- Naomi Shihab Nye

Isn't the moon dark too, most of the time? And doesn't the white page seem unfinished without the dark stain of alphabets? When God ...

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden s...

It hangs from heaven to earth. There are trees in it, cities, rivers, small pigs and moons. In one corner the snow falling over a charging...

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their m...

There is a place where the sidewalk ends and before the street begins, and there the grass grows soft and white, and there the sun burns ...

There is a country to cross you will find in the corner of your eye, in the quick slip of your foot--air far down, a snap that might have ca...

Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait will wait: will wait a ...

I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonn...

1. "Dreyfus" France has no dungeon in her island tomb So deep that she may hide injustice there; The cry of innocence, d...

होंगे कामयाब, होंगे कामयाब हम होंगे कामयाब एक दिन हो, हो, मन में है विश्वास पूरा है विश्वास हम होंगे कामयाब एक दिन होगी शान्ति चारों ओर होगी...

Remember the toddler lying face down on the sand, and the waves gently receding from his body as if a forgotten dream? My poem will not turn...