Thursday, August 28, 2008

Favorite Poem



What is your favorite poem?


Mine is "Salutation to the Dawn" by Kalidasa. Are you familiar with the poem?


It is a Sanskit proverb for senerity and peace written by Kalidasa, famous Sanskit poet and dramatist.

Salutation to the Dawn
by Kalidasa

Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life,
In its brief course,
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor of beauty.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived
makes every yesterdayA dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day!
Such is the salutation of the dawn.

1 comment:

Marianne Abe Pasayloon said...

Wew! What a nice poem you have chosen as your favorite poem te....
Mine??? Well, I have no favorite poem but I also like the Salutation to the Dawn and Psalm of Life....