XV and XVI from Fruit-Gathering, Rabindranath Tagore Poem

XV (Fruit-Gathering, Rabindranath Tagore)
YOUR speech is simple, my Master, but not theirs who talk of you.
I understand the voice of your stars and the silence of your trees.
I know that my heart would open like a flower; that my life has filled itself at a hidden fountain.
Your songs, like birds from the lonely land of snow, are winging to build their nests in my heart against the warmth of its April, and I am content to wait for the merry season.

XVI (Fruit-Gathering, Rabindranath Tagore)
THEY knew the way and went to seek you along the narrow lane, but I wandered abroad into the night for I was ignorant.
I was not schooled enough to be afraid of you in the dark, therefore I came upon your doorstep unaware.
The wise rebuked me and bade me be gone, for I had not come by the lane.
I turned away in doubt, but you held me fast, and their scolding became louder every day.

22. From the Gardener by Tagore

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When she passed by me with quick steps, the end of her skirt touched me.
From the unknown island of a heart came a sudden warm breath of spring.
A flutter of a flitting touch brushed me and vanished in a
moment, like a torn flower petal blown in the breeze.
It fell upon my heart like a sigh of her body and whisper of her heart.

From The Gardener
Rabindranath Tagore

At Grandmum's

At Grandmum’s

The clock clicked
Steadily
Time passed.
Would I catch the bus?

‘God know Dear boy
You’ll get it’
But the meal
Wasn’t ready still.

Anger, rage, urgency
Filled my chest
‘These old people
Don’t know time’,
Thought I,
But I couldn’t defy
Her.

I heard the crack
Of the splintering wood
And out went I
Breaking the plank
With the senile hands
Slowly surely
Was Grandmum.

Tears filled my eyes
Of patience for
Foolish artificiality,
For defying this
Great love.

Okumba Miruka

California Blue (Roy Orbison)

California Blue (by Roy Orbison)
Working all day and the sun don’t shine
Trying to get by and I’m just killing time
I feel the rain fall the whole night through
Far away from you California blue

California blue dreaming all alone
Nothing else to do California blue
Everyday I pray I’ll be on my way
Saving love for you California blue

One sunny day, I’ll get back again
Somehow, someway but I don’t know when
California blue California blue

Living my life with you on my mind
Thinking of things that I left far behind
It’s been so long doing all I can do
To get back to you California blue

California blue dreaming all alone
Nothing else to do California blue
Everyday I pray I’ll be on my way
Saving love for you California blue

One sunny day I’ll get back again
Somehow, someway but I don’t know when
California blue California blue

Still missing you California blue
Still missing you California blue
Still missing you California blue

A Beautiful Day On Julie's Birthday

A Beautiful Day
What a beautiful day!
A singing bird on the wing,
A dappling sunshine on my book,
A blue sky of the spring,
A lotus in the brook:
Make me to remember your birthday
It itself is as beautiful as your smile now.

BaKoGi
Dedicated to Julie on her birthday from Malaysia

Echoes

Echoes
How sweet the answer
Echo makes to music at night,
When roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
And far away over lawns and lakes,
Goes answering light!

Yet love hath echoes truer far
And far more sweet
Than ever, beneath the moonlight's star,
Of horn or lute or soft guitar
The songs repeat.

'Tis when the sigh,- in youth sincere
And only then-
The sigh that is breathed for one to hear,
Is by that one, that only Dear
Breathed back again.

Thomas Moore

This is one of my favourite poems by Thomas Moore. Perfectly, this poem illustrates my university days. Some of my university friends used to play guitar and sang songs at girl hostals or boarding houses at night.

All My Wishes

All My Wishes
Lying on the bed,
Trying to get a sleep,
The bed seems too big.
Sanity, I tried to keep.
Loneliness was very deep.

Making a instant noodle,
Made me so fuddled.
Used to be very simple.
Fulfillment, I tried to keep.
But Emptiness was very big.

When will my better-half be back?
I’m feeling like a wreck.
Miss her delicious dishes,
And her gentle kisses,
Seeing her sooner is all my wishes.

BaKoGi

走西口 蔡琴-民歌 (Chinese Folk Song)

走西口 蔡琴