Saturday, January 14, 2006

All the Heroes and Sages



A philosphical comment of a man with his muse, who takes him to all the heroes and sages in a reflection of reincarnation that pronounces immortality.

All the Heroes and Sages

I link myself with all the heroes and sages
And gently traverse the road of the ages,
With all the poets and thinkers,
All the martyrs and builders
Of civilisations and cultures everywhere;
I leap over space and ignore time,
Join the hordes of every race and clime,
And like the dust on the pages
Of recorded ages
I blow all empires away;
I know that this wandering me,
May he a king or a peasant be,
Is a mere link on his sole
In the chain as a whole
Of man’s wonderful immortality.


From Island Poems by Ronnie Patel (Lotus Print ISBN 81-88451-02-09 C.Right Author)

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Born in Bombay prior to independence of India from the British, Ronnie Patel spent several years of his life in London of the fifties and sixties. During that time and since, sometimes in turn, sometimes concomitantly, he became company executive, businessman: fashion garments and poultry farming, actor, film-maker, writer and poet. He has lived and travelled extensively round the world for business and pleasure, and has been an exemplary generalist. Except for the occasional forays, he retired from active corporate and business life well over a decade ago, even to shed, at last, the ubiquitous euphemism: consultant. Among his other interests, which include scuba-diving, golf and bridge he has recently taken up oil painting.