Graveyard !

Far from the madding crowd,a desolate place,
With dead silence and grimmer breeze everywhere,
Atlast only equality reigns here but no race,
No king, no slave,no rich,all are equal here.

Liberty,Fraternity and Equality ever a struggle,
All but a strenuous dream but never was found,
Mankind ever suffers from ill begotten guile,
Man exhausted makes his way to the last ground.

To rest in peace,to find peace in death,
No new world,no men,no women but only a crowd,
Ego,palsied brain and heart of stone hold breath,
None listens to the inner voice but talks aloud.

O! life's values 've lost,we 've nothing to guard,
So they seek peace and solace only in a graveyard.

Yesupatham Savarimuthu.

Jordan River Flows For Ever !

A sacred river born at the foot of Mt.Hermon,
Flows in running emotion hundreds of mile,
Blessed tributaries merge,unperturbed goes on,
A Garden of God,there buoyant greens ever smile.

Thr'the Sea of Galilee ends in saline Dead Sea,
Joshua crossed Jordan to find promised freedom,
A scene of several miracles Jordan River did see,
Elijah in Jordan healed Naaman in God's wisdom.

"Lamb of God" on Jesus, proclaimed John the Baptist,
For the "Son of God" a record witness he did give,
While in Jordan,when he did baptize Jesus Christ,
Centuries have gone in to oblivion,O Jordan doth live.

Jordan of Southwest Asia,doth possess a grand name,
With Jesus'baptism O! Jordan you still tower in fame.

Yesupatham Savarimuthu.

Blessed Mountains !

Be an eternal lamp on the high mountain,
Its glow reaches all eyes all around,
When you lookup, grace flows as fountain,
Blessed mountains stand with pomp and sound.

Many a mountain I climbed in my teen,
My joy flew high yet knew no bound,
In my heart unknown sorrow lingers so keen.
Oh!so many mountains I missed,I found.

Mount Sinai gave Moses The Ten Commandment,
Abraham's faith the Mount of Moriah witnessed,
Jesus'agony in the Mount of Olives never dreamt,
In the Mount of Tabor,there Jesus transfigured.

Alas!Jesus was crucified in the Mount of Calvary,
Alas!what a sad memory and what a sad history.

Yesupatham Savarimuthu.

"Ask, And You Will Receive"

Give me Thou a sound brain,
And Thy mercy drops as rain,
Give me Thou a strong heart,
From ideals never to depart,
Live not I but within me Thou,
In my little heart I can vow.

From evils guard my eyes,
To see Thou descend from skies,
Give strength to my weaker leg,
So that I walk that's what I beg,
With folded hands when I worship,
My knees speak of thy kingship,
Thou art my life,vision and speech,
With thy strength alone I can march.

I am what I am !
In old Adam's time,
Me a curse on Thy lip,
Me a wrecked ship,

I am what I am,
Oh!I had no time,
To think of Thee,
An abject sinner,for me,
Thou gave Thy life on the cross,
What shall not Thou give?Alas!

Yesupatham Savarimuthu

About The Author

Published a book of poems in 1984,a member of the World Poetry Society,a Doctoral Member of the World University,Arizona,U.S.A.He has won Editor's Choice Award for
his poem and Best Poet Award for 2007.He is a retired Headmaster,blessed with two sons Y.Tennyson B.E.and Y.Emerson M.E.,and one grand son by name E.Preston Jude,
wife S,Shantha a retired school teacher,daughter-in-laws Brenda and Sheeba.


Dr.S.Yesupatham,
M.A.,M.Ed.,D.Litt.,
Indira Nagar,
POLUR-T.Dist.,
Tamil Nadu,S.India.

Dedicated To My Sons

Y.Tennyson And Y.Emerson.

And to my grand son

E.Preston Jude.


Price:

Published in 2010

All Rights Reserved By

Dr.S.Yesupatham.,
M.A.,M.Ed.,D.Litt.,
Indira Nagar,
POLUR-T.Dist.,
Tamilnadu.S.India.

Dreamer Lost ! Dreamer Found !

Sonnets

Long Verses And Haiku Poems

Of

Dr.S.Yesupatham
M.A,M.Ed.,D.Litt.

A Poem A Lamp On The Mountain.

Preface

We are extremely happy to introduce our father the Poet Mr.S.Yesupatham to the vast
literary world.We have gone through each and everyone of his poems,we are simply
amazed and impressed,he has a profound love for modern poetry, sonnets,long verses and haiku poems.
His love for poetry is quite deep and unfathomable,he has named us his two sons after the poets name as Tennyson and Emerson,we admire the poem on "Dr.Kalaignar An Incarnation Of Shakespeare!" Dreamer Lost,Dreamer Found " "Gethsemane To Golgotha" "To William Shakespeare" "The Lord Is With You Preston Jude" "Double Blessing" "Walk The Talk"
"Go Away 2009" Your Name I Gave My Elder Son,"Lonely Child Never Lonely"etc.
Mainly he worked on traditional sonnets of Elezabethan Age keeping Shakespeare as model for rhyming scheme.His poem "Dreamer Lost Dreamer Found " sounds like Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.
His Haiku poems follow Japanese Pattern.All the three hundred haikus are very interesting,such as:

Go with the tide
No guts to swim against,
Cowards only afraid.

Tears
In the eyes of the fish,
Not crocodile tears.

As the Poet Robert Frost says,

The woods are lovely,
Dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.


As William Wordsworth says,there is happiness in emotions recollected in tranquility.poems of our father infuses the love of nature,optimism,positive thinking etc. A Tamil Poet says,"All are our country and all are our kinsmen" we are sure the poet gains recognition,support and encouragement.

Er.Y.Tennyson,B.E.
Software Engineer,
Nashva,U.S.A

Er.Y.Emerson M.E.
Software Engineer,
Indira Nagar.,
POLUR,T.Dist.,
Tamilnadu.
South India.

Fore Word

In those sands of Times,
Like a ship on the tide,
My pensive emotion swayed,
Yet I found certain rhymes.

The thoughts of the bards,
Ever rang in my ears,
They my heart did pierce,
Yet I made certain words.

So I shed my joyous tears,
Over my own brain-child,
For whom I have toiled,
For all these long years.

Yet I made verses of flowers,
They speak in true colours.

Dr.S.Yesupatham,M.A.,M.Ed,D.Litt,
Indira Nagar,POLUR,T.Dist
Tamil Nadu.South India.