Poem of the week: The Jailbird by Maurice Riordan The puruit of philosophy radhamani sarma

 

Poem of the week: The Jailbird by Maurice Riordan

 

  In pursuit of a philosophy:

  Often a  persistent feeling rouses in me

  An awareness, of something new, strange,

  unusual, requires my visits, my scrutiny,

   Break from routine, from shell;

  but from sometime, it was in isolate ward,

  within the corner of my heart, soul’s room,

  in its own ward, overcoming all temptations,

 at times, yields no doubt some small tempts, harmless,

  yet, an awareness taps it, for  the soul to break

 away, from the   little  show, to higher realm;

 now is the time to rise skywards,

 soar higher in pursuit of  a philosophy.