After Sixty................ Poem by Sathya Narayana

After Sixty................

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You learnt
something or a lot
for sixty years or more
keeping your nose
to the grindstone.

It's time to halt!
Come on! Throw away
those grammar books,
and discard those language lessons!

Try something akin
to your hunching spine...
help fellow humans
or chant the names
of the Divine.

Of what use, is stock pile
when it is not for consume? !

Of what use is knowledge
when it cannot blossom
into true wisdom? !

Look at the twilight welkin!
The milk is getting sour.
come on, add some butter milk!

You can savor
sweet curd tomorrow.

Saturday, August 29, 2009
Topic(s) of this poem: milk
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Sandra Martyres 30 August 2009

Nice thought indeed Sathya...very skillfully woven into a poem..10

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Miriam Maia Padua 01 September 2009

wisdom thoughts great and amusing... i will remember this in my life after sixty meaningful write though 10++++ Lovelots, maia

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Anjali Sinha 03 September 2009

words of wisdom surely they come when after sixty dont they? nicely penned dear Satya anjali

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Ramesh T A 03 September 2009

Wisdom speaks in your verse! I am 60! It looks it is said to me! Nice poem!

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Samanyan Lakshminarayanan 03 September 2009

a lesson from the hunching spine reads good...a wisdom piece....10

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Anita Sehgal 14 November 2012

great poem.. a meaningful message ..

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Pia Andersson 10 October 2009

'Of what use is knowledge When it cannot blossom Into true wisdom2 You are right-beeing too clever is not very clever there is wisdom in a tree or just beeing I love your poem

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Allan Macli Borges 26 September 2009

i hope i have the chance to follow the advice...nice poem.

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Lynn Glover 08 September 2009

Sathy, I don't have to worry about sixty any more but this is a well constructed poem. Keep up the good work. Lynn

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Surya . 06 September 2009

hey dont abuse 60+. they have a lot f experience and are raring to go with confidence. look at me i took to poems at sixty.nice poem voted10 surya

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Sathya Narayana

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Nellore, Andhra Pradesh
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