Tell No One How Good You Are Poem by Aniruddha Pathak
Tell No One How Good You Are
Care not to quote your great qualities—
Be thou learned and wise
Or if not otherwise,
The wise know well enough what truth is,
And to fools it is like passing breeze.
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Words well said | 01.11.14 |
It is generally believed that limericks are lewd and tend to be ludicrous. If not, they are light verses of leg-pulling type and often are a rollicking great humour. While this may be true in some cases, even considering their origin, it need not be so. I have made here humble attempt to lift the status of limericks somewhat. I feel they provide a compact structure to express a serious thought in a lighter tone.
A limerick structure as we know is of five lines, but we can also make it a one and a half limerick, or even a double one if need be. There also is some scope for certain variations in its structure.
In this collection I have tried them as verses that are thought-provoking. Some of them are based on Sanskrit Subhaashitanis
(Words well said) , but are not direct translations. The underlying tone is often humorous to bring home the point.
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Many people keep bragging of their qualities and accomplishments. This self praise is annoying to the listeners. The wise ones can easily make out what type of a person one really is. Trying to impress them by vain talk won't raise one's status unless one really deserves the qualities highlighted. Blowing one's own trumpet is a despicable quality. It is others who are to rate us seeing our performance. Beautifully condensed in this well written limerick.
You have really put the facts in true perspective, dear poet, thanks for liking it
Well said. this is the ancient wisdom we grew up with. Now a days with changing life style, with TV. Twitter and media bombarding us, it feels that one get only talking points. Louder you are better you can make others believe for Sun to be coming out of West.
Good point, we have too much of yak, yak everywhere. Look at politics, come to working places, why, everywhere. I used to call some of my colleagues as NATO members (No Action, Talk Only) . Thanks
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Care not to quote your great qualities— Be thou learned and wise Or if not otherwise, The wise know well enough what truth is, And to fools it is like passing breeze. - - - - A wise thought told in light humour. Your attempt to introduce new variation in limmerick is really wonderful.I like it.
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I wonder to know that my page was not visible to you.It may be so to many others. I am glad that it is visible now.Thanks for letting me know.
You noticed it right, and seems you have read the notes fully. There are a few on PH already and more are to come. I'd love to have your comments. Thanks indeed. Glad to see you in print again. Your page was not traceable for a while.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/30/2024 8:37:31 AM # 1.0.0.1119
Revisiting this one of a kind limerick. I concur with the wonderful comments of the great Poetess, Valsa. Our great qualities will speak for themselves. There is no need to brag our assets.