Life Vs Poetry Poem by AtreyaSarma Uppaluri

Life Vs Poetry

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Poetry is great
Life is greater
For poetry is part
And life is whole.

Poetry is proprietary
Life is cooperative.
Life is a mountain
Poetry is a mirror.

Life
Actively lived out
Is poetry in action.

Poetry is lines
Composed
Out of inspiration.

Someone
Or something
Inspires you
And you versify it.

Instead
Why not be
That someone in life
And inspire others?

And why not cultivate
That something
That inspires others?

Everyone knows about Rama
But very few know of Valmiki.
Everyone knows of Bhima and Arjuna
But very few know of Vyasa or Badarayana.
Most people know about Odysseus
But far very few of Homer the writer.
A great many know of Samuel Johnson
But too few of James Boswell, his biographer.

Singing poetry
On leaves and flowers
Is sweet and great.

Turning a new leaf
Of ideal life
And spreading the fragrance
Of life’s flowers
Is much more sweet and great.

[Jul 18,2009: : Hyderabad - 500 056]

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