Daily Prompt : Glitter

In response to daily post’s one-word prompt : Glitter

Whenever I hear of the freezing rain

I think of   glittering trees from my windowpane

I hear nature’s warning loud and clear

‘Get ready with artificial lights my dear.’

………………………….

Immediately I get ready with my flashlights

Trying to avoid  the dark with all my might

Then this ghastly truth makes me whine

What will I eat when it’s time to dine?

………………………………..

My stove needs electricity to cook

without it I cannot try to nuke

So what’s the only thing for me to do

Eat cold bread and yesterday’s stew!

…………………………………….. 😦

 

 

Birth And Death by Tagore Translation by Ranu

Birth And Death            Rabindranath Tagore

It was only the other day I came to this world   I was an infant devoid of speech

I came like a foreigner to this earth

without any identity, I did not bring anything with me,

Rabindranath Tagore (Photo credit: Cea.)

only provision I had with me was sobbing.

Today   all the  love  I received from my fellow human beings

has managed to draw out all the songs I have in my heart,

On this earth O my creator you have taken very little space in my heart!

Instead you have fulfilled the wishes of the people with my songs.

Every day you assist me to present songs of rhythm and melody

still I offer you my worship  at the end of the prayer

I hope you will take me with love,

I am hopeful that you will remember when we part.

wherever you keep me on this earth your love will remain with me.

There will be brand new foreign residence  new people

they   will connect with  me with similar love. In the light of this love

I will appear in the world

and blossom in the new company. Attracted by love

all the mysterious glitter I have in me

will rise up in eternal juice,

they will come out running___  free from life

in the entire world of yours on the invitation of love

I will leave the perfume of new lives,

I will draw the shape of faces with new colours.

who wants to be in this blind  narrow hole of immortality

on this surface of the earth only in one form

to live!  In the new paths of death

I will  worship you in different worlds.