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Living with my heart
Posted 3rd April 2008 at 05:45 AM by Cheeniya
My heart has ears so sensitive
They can hear the lilting music
Of a flower blooming slowly.
The eyes it has can see the rainbow
Splashed with blue and pink
The colours of love and romance
Its nose can smell the sweet scent
Of the fusion of raindrops with the fields
The honeyed sounds that emanate
From its mouth can put a dragon to sleep
Its strong arms can sculpt with ease
The missing hands of the goddess of love
That she can lend them to all ailing lovers
The legs it has can carry it to succour
Other hearts in their hour of pain.
I let my heart be me when I find
My head tends to bring me discredit
Oh my heart has won me greater laurels
Than my mind ever did all my life!
They can hear the lilting music
Of a flower blooming slowly.
The eyes it has can see the rainbow
Splashed with blue and pink
The colours of love and romance
Its nose can smell the sweet scent
Of the fusion of raindrops with the fields
The honeyed sounds that emanate
From its mouth can put a dragon to sleep
Its strong arms can sculpt with ease
The missing hands of the goddess of love
That she can lend them to all ailing lovers
The legs it has can carry it to succour
Other hearts in their hour of pain.
I let my heart be me when I find
My head tends to bring me discredit
Oh my heart has won me greater laurels
Than my mind ever did all my life!
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Dear Cheeniya Sir,
Would wonderful suffice?. No not at all. This is absolutely splendid ,marvellous!
The conflict of the heart and the mind. Well many a times the heart can recognise what the mind is denying. The heart is responsilbe for all the positivities of life , the love, the smile,the care , the compassion, all emotions that keep you wanting to give more !
Your last two lines were fantastic. I loved every word of this. Something that can be read again and again and have you wanting for more!
Love,
Devika Mole.Posted 3rd April 2008 at 06:36 AM by Devika Menon
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Dear Devika Mole
The conflict between the mind and the heart is eternal. From the mind emanates all the cold logic, all rational approach and it generally builds a barrier between people. While I concede that we can't ignore mind altogether, many decisions of our lives would require the intervention of our hearts. Beautiful feelings arise only from the heart and such feelings go a long way in building lovely relationships.
SriPosted 3rd April 2008 at 09:49 AM by Cheeniya -
Dear Sri,
A very beautiful piecewith lovely words - I feel like blurting out in Tamil
manathai mayil iRakaal varuduvathu pOla irukkirathu.
I do not think, it can be 50-50 between heart and mind ever ! I would go to the extent of "generalising" that mind is like a father and heart, like a mother.Mind is forever logical, rationalising, more towards our actions being "prim and proper". Heart is a bundle of emotions and never bothers about the "image" part ! In our own lives, we see that with all our judging capacities, the heart sometimes rules over the head.For a relationship to flourish, I personally feel, heart must take the lead.Your last two lines say it all !
Love,
Chithra.Posted 3rd April 2008 at 12:18 PM by Chitvish -
Wow,
Cheeniya,
Another one to tug our hearts......my my how are you managing this switching between ur mind and heart...i mean, your Senile ramblings make us Think( u provide exercise to our rusty minds) and here in your blogs you are playing with our hearts.....so schweet! I agree with Chitra's phrase in tamil....about "lightly touching our hearts with a peacock feather"
It was beautiful.....the personification of HEART! Athukku kaathu, mooku kannu ellam vachhu, engalai adimai aakitheenga!
Posted 3rd April 2008 at 03:50 PM by sudhavnarasimhan - Dear Chithra
I like your analogy. You are right about the mind being like the father and the heart like the mother. Had I thought of this when I wrote this poem, I would have squeezed in this thought too! For the children to develop well, the father's rationalised approach and the mother's emotional one are both necessary. It cant be 50:50 as you say. It should lean more towards emotional approach to make us more humane. People who use only their heads can never build up relationships. People who use only their hearts will be very gullible!
SriPosted 4th April 2008 at 01:24 AM by Cheeniya
Updated 4th April 2008 at 01:26 AM by Cheeniya
