Komarraju Venkata Vinay Poems

As only light can dispel darkness,
As only love can drive away hate,
As only fragrance can draw the bees,
Only friends true can dispel loneliness
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I cannot endure
Love’s violence.
I fear his embrace.
Hide me friends.
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He came yester night
Or did I dream
That I melted, all?
Or did it seem?
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He is rough, that cowherd,
That rustic boy.
With raw strength he crushes
Love’s tender joy.
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All the world may disown you
And fate may let loose her hounds of hunger
The gods may guide you to ruin
And throw you down the cliff of criticism
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The long winter-nights of separation
Are now mere photographs
In the dusty album of past memories;
The present moments of warm togetherness
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From a fallen log a wonder to make
From a withered leaf a lesson to take
On a moonless night the stars to count
To draw faith from the rocks of doubt
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What joy can stand the blows of time
That fall with the weight of death and decay?
The earth-born must unto earth return
Sans life, sans love, sans all happiness-
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As the day and night alloy into twilight
A stirring turbulence strikes my heart.
The soul watches what is not
And in sympathy identifies with it.
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All must pass through the fire of Death
The rich, the poor, the sick, the well;
Not all the wood of possessions
Nor all the oil of pride and riches
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