To Blossoms

                                    by Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
  FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree,
    Why do ye fall so fast?
    Your date is not so past,
But you may stay yet here awhile
    To blush and gently smile,      
        And go at last.

What, were ye born to be
    An hour or half’s delight,
    And so to bid good-night?
’Twas pity Nature brought ye forth
    Merely to show your worth,
        And lose you quite.

But you are lovely leaves, where we
    May read how soon things have
    Their end, though ne’er so brave:
And after they have shown their pride
    Like you, awhile, they glide
        Into the grave.

Roses ...by George Eliot

You love the roses - so do I. I wish
The sky would rain down roses, as they rain
From off the shaken bush. Why will it not?
Then all the valley would be pink and white
And soft to tread on. They would fall as light
As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be
Like sleeping and like waking, all at once!

Keep Your Heart in your Pocket

Keep your heart in your pocket

is what I learnt

after the umpteen trysts

and things I watched.

if you keep the heart in chest

it is untamable, unruly

& it throbs irregularly

at silly love interests.

If she once sits by your side

or just looks with the look you know what

the heart pounds hard

And knits fairy-tales around.

Know that, you can’t be careful enough

as your heart can’t be reasoned out.

So, I always say about

Keep your heart in your Pocket.

And its even not uncommon

for the heart to pop out

at her sweet simple potion

which she might brew sometime.

And when your heart is

in her hands.

Mind you, probably she will

drop it, being uncertain.

Uncertain, what to do with

your human heart,

She JUST wants to play around

And so uncertain about the byproduct she found.

That is why I will say

Keep your heart in your pocket.

Perhaps you are thinking about the mind

like ‘I’ll think with my brain.’

Let me say like this my friend,

your brain can’t handle the heart’s helm.

The heart runs its own course

Unaffected by brain or any such cold morose.

So don’t keep your heart in the brain

nor in hands, nor the chest

but keep your heart

Deep Inside Your Pocket.

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