POETRY BOOK - A COLLECTION OF IMAGINATIONS

There are huge collection of poetry books in various world languages written by poets living across the globe.  According to Matthew Arnold, It “Poetry is simply the most delightful and perfect form of utterance that human words can reach.” 

Recently I read about the THE BLOOMSBURY ANTHOLOGY OF GREAT INDIAN POEMS by Abhay .K and the other one by the BLOOMSBURY BOOK OF GREAT INDIAN LOVE POEMS. It will be a sheer delight to read a poetry book exclusively of Indian poems. Yet to order.

My favourite poetry book is a book of 86 poems in languages like English, Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil and Bengali. It is  just amazing to read and enjoy the poetical rhythms and rhymes. A poem for CRY is an anthology of poems by varied poets across the globe and these are the favorites of famous Indians. Forward by Amartya Sen adds more fragrances to this beautiful bouquet of poems. This book is compiled and edited by Avanti Maluste and Sudeep Doshi. This was published in the year 2006.

The poems  of various poets on innumerous subjects, themes and messages is the soul of the book. To know the favourite poem of the famous personalities, many of to whom we are fans, creates a crazy like enthusiasm to get into the details and reasons of their likes.

Rudyard Kipling’s “IF “is a favourite poem for as many as five people. Actor Shah Rukh Khan’s favourite poem is Abraham Lincoln’s Letter to his son’s Teacher by Abraham Lincoln. “WE ARE SEVEN” by William Wordsworth is the favourite of Raman Magsaysay award winner and first Indian woman to join police service-Kiran Bedi. Like these there many, for the poetry lovers and surely it make a worth &good read.

Here is  a poem  from page 45 of the book

கல்வி

 கற்க கசடற கற்பவை கற்ற பின்

 நிற்க அதற்குத் தக.

EDUCATION - by THIRUVALLUVUR -a Tamil saint poet

Learn well all that is to be learnt;

Thereafter let your conduct be worthy of that learning.

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