Saturday, January 07, 2006

God's Man



The following poem provokes Man to thinking about his comical insignificance in the universe:

God's Man
God made man and woman,
Man made husband and wife;
God gave absolute freedom,
Man confined it with religion,
Clothes and domesticity;
God gave the law of nature,
Man reduced it to legalities;
God made forests, mountains
And rivers, man made little
Houses and landscape paintings –
All this, by the little man who claims
He is made in the image of God!

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.