Miscellany #16 Love, poems by Rabindranath Tagore and E.E Cummings

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. ― Paulo Coelho

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This poem, titled "Madno," celebrates the beauty and charm of a person through vivid imagery and heartfelt emotions. The speaker is captivated by the perfect combination of mascara and lipstick, symbolizing the allure of the individual's eyes and lips. The encounter with this person fills the speaker's heart with joy and gratitude

Madno

In the realm where mascara and lipstick combine,

My heart skipped a beat, oh, how it danced and twined.

Eyes so deep, lips so sweet,

The joy of meeting you, a moment complete.

Your voice, a melody, innocence untold,

It weaves music within, a symphony untold.

Truth resonates, beckoning love and delight,

To bring happiness and make your world bright.

Precious as gold, a treasure so rare,

With you, I yearn to grow old and share.

You conjure memories of childhood's lost days,

A museum of art, beneath your eyelids' haze.

A sun illuminates your radiant grace,

Oh, Madno, you're a gem in love's embrace.

Unaware of your worth, unaware of your might,

You deserve all the love, every beat, every light.

- Bohemian Dialogue

Unending Love by Rabindranath Tagore

Source: poemhunter

Unending Love" by Rabindranath Tagore is a poem that explores the timeless and enduring nature of love. The speaker expresses a deep and profound connection with the beloved, transcending multiple lifetimes and ages. They convey a sense of having loved the beloved in countless forms and instances, with their heart constantly creating and recreating a necklace of songs, symbolizing their affection.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age-old pain,
It's ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever.

I carry your heart with me(I carry it in] by E.E Cummings

In this poem, titled "I carry your heart with me (I carry it in]," E.E Cummings beautifully expresses a profound love and connection between two individuals. The speaker declares that they carry the heart of their beloved within their own heart, emphasizing an inseparable bond. Wherever the speaker goes, their beloved is present with them, symbolizing an eternal togetherness.

I carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
                                                      i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart