' all things bright and beautiful <br /> all creatures great and small <br /> all things wise and wonderful <br /> the lord god made them all <br /> <br /> each little flower that opens <br /> each little bird that sings <br /> he made them every body <br /> he made them every one...' <br /> <br /> a song i was taught to sing <br /> every morning in my boarding school' <br /> what a joyful song to sing <br /> yet not with joy i sang it in school <br /> <br /> woken up early in the morn <br /> as a kid i would miss my mom and home <br /> disciplined to sing this song every morn <br /> i did so without its joy catching on <br /> <br /> similarly..... <br /> <br /> ' where the mind is without fear <br /> where the head is held high <br /> where knowledge is free <br /> where words come out from the depth of truth' <br /> <br /> a verse from gitanjali read out <br /> every monday in open assembly we stand out <br /> a routine read out...it went on <br /> without stirring my soul a bit <br /> <br /> a year or two after school <br /> when on my own i was drawn <br /> to read gitanjali i could not put it down <br /> a soul stirring collection of poems <br /> <br /> AN ASPECT IT WAS...... <br /> <br /> any thing you read <br /> any thing you hear <br /> any life you live <br /> without an aspect of you <br /> in it....perhaps <br /> will not bring out the joy in it to you<br /><br />Samanyan Lakshminarayanan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-aspect-of-you/
