<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451653" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old is Gold</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Couplets of Kabir<br>The wandering fakir, <br>Full of spiritual fervour<br> and universal appeal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What about Shakespeare? <br>Wisdom so rare, <br>With ingenuity, celebrates, <br>Universal truth and beauty <br>In his works and sonnets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have you read <br>Auguries of Innocence<br>By William Blake? <br>Just four opening lines…<br>Sum up life’s essence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A short poem—epigram<br>What a clever twist at the end...<br>Coleridge rightly extolled: <br>Its body brevity, <br>And wit, its soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These great minds, <br>So concise<br>Profound and precise, <br>Hit the bull’s eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Espoused truths<br>In a language<br>Even the uninitiated<br>Could grasp</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And be held <br>In captivity <br>By their simplicity, <br>For life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rules are meant to be bent<br>So I have used a cliché, <br>And called my poem -<br>Old is gold.<br>It best sums up, <br>What had to be told.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dedicated to Raj Nandy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">12.10.08</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mamta+Agarwal">Mamta Agarwal</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451653" data-title="Old is Gold de Mamta Agarwal" data-description="Couplets of Kabir The wandering fakir, Full of spiritual fervour and universal appeal. What about Shakespeare? Wisdom so rare, With ingenuity, celebrates, Universal truth and beauty In his works and sonnets. Have you read Auguries of Inno..."></div> </div> </div>

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