Freedom!

A beautiful poem

A thick haze settles over the ocean,

The horizon turns pink as far as the eye can see.

All creatures hurry back home,

As the sun plunges into the sea.

Someone somewhere made a fortune today,

Someone somewhere lost all that he ever had.

Someone will sleep with a smile on his face,

Someone with a heavy heart will be sad.

Someone somewhere was born to rule,

Someone somewhere was born to die.

Someone today found someone he loves,

Someone has left someone to cry.

Someone's life has changed today,

For some, it was just another day.

Someone somewhere is dumbfounded by his good fate,

Someone has nothing more left to say.

The beauty of this setting sun,

Is too divine for me to summarize.

As I sit here and watch the setting sun,

Someone somewhere sees it rise......

The crux of life

Here's an all time favourite that has been written in many languages.

There once was an oyster whose story I tell,
Who found that some sand had got into his shell.
It was only a grain, but it gave him great pain.
For oysters have feelings although they're so plain.
Now, did he berate the harsh workings of fate
That had brought him to such a deplorable state?
Did he curse at the government, cry for election,
And claim that the sea should have given him protection?
'No,' he said to himself as he lay on a shell,
Since I cannot remove it, I shall try to improve it.
Now the years have rolled around, as the years always do,
And he came to his ultimate destiny stew.
And the small grain of sand that had bothered him so
Was a beautiful pearl all richly aglow.
Now the tale has a moral, for isn't it grand
What an oyster can do with a morsel of sand?
What couldn't we do if we'd only begin
With some of the things that get under our skin.

- Anonymous

Tamil poems