Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "conviction"
In The Church of Liberty (The Sonnet)
In the church of liberty,
Light a candle of conviction.
Do not move an inch,
Even in the face of annihilation.
Freedom, curiosity and inclusivity,
These are the beads of our soul.
Standing true to these watchwords,
We will reach our supreme goal.
If we want there to be serenity,
Destroy we must our insane egotism.
Real rest comes through humility,
When we discover the self in collectivism.
World peace and harmony are all fiction.
If conscience is awake there'll be ascension.
Light a candle of conviction.
Do not move an inch,
Even in the face of annihilation.
Freedom, curiosity and inclusivity,
These are the beads of our soul.
Standing true to these watchwords,
We will reach our supreme goal.
If we want there to be serenity,
Destroy we must our insane egotism.
Real rest comes through humility,
When we discover the self in collectivism.
World peace and harmony are all fiction.
If conscience is awake there'll be ascension.
The Temper Sonnet
Where you need to be calm,
You burst out in rage.
Where you need to be on fire,
You walk in silence and not engage.
Where you need to listen,
You scream like a loudspeaker.
Where you need to speak out,
Somehow your words disappear.
Where it requires to be humble,
Pride takes over your humility.
Where your blood needs to boil,
Your veins seem to run empty.
The right use of temper is an act of revolution.
Put it to good use and you'll nourish civilization.
You burst out in rage.
Where you need to be on fire,
You walk in silence and not engage.
Where you need to listen,
You scream like a loudspeaker.
Where you need to speak out,
Somehow your words disappear.
Where it requires to be humble,
Pride takes over your humility.
Where your blood needs to boil,
Your veins seem to run empty.
The right use of temper is an act of revolution.
Put it to good use and you'll nourish civilization.
My Life is A Record | Abhijit Naskar | Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
I don’t do anything for reward,
I do everything as a record,
a record of conviction –
a record of resilience –
a record of thunder –
a record of sentience.
My life is a repository
of what is possible if you put
your petty tribalisms aside.
I leave this repository
in your capable hands –
draw from it as you will –
put it to use as you deem fit.
I do everything as a record,
a record of conviction –
a record of resilience –
a record of thunder –
a record of sentience.
My life is a repository
of what is possible if you put
your petty tribalisms aside.
I leave this repository
in your capable hands –
draw from it as you will –
put it to use as you deem fit.
Naskar’s Folly (The Sonnet – for July 4th) | Abhijit Naskar | World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
If your perception doesn’t evolve with time,
It’s not a sign of conviction but cowardice.
So in this sonnet I take it upon myself,
to correct my own early follies.
In one of my early works I called America,
“a great country, built by great people,”
while the harsh humanitarian fact of earth is,
America is a terrorist nation, built by criminals.
I once naively asked to ‘appreciate the soldiers’,
while unintentionally undermining peace-activism.
That one line has been eating me alive, until
in 2023 I declared, “military is legal terrorism.”
Own up your follies, use them to sharpen your conviction.
Mistakes acknowledged are the beginning of illumination.
It’s not a sign of conviction but cowardice.
So in this sonnet I take it upon myself,
to correct my own early follies.
In one of my early works I called America,
“a great country, built by great people,”
while the harsh humanitarian fact of earth is,
America is a terrorist nation, built by criminals.
I once naively asked to ‘appreciate the soldiers’,
while unintentionally undermining peace-activism.
That one line has been eating me alive, until
in 2023 I declared, “military is legal terrorism.”
Own up your follies, use them to sharpen your conviction.
Mistakes acknowledged are the beginning of illumination.
“Brain is there to think first, then take a side…” Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets
Brain is there to think first,
then take a side,
but society teaches you to
pick a side first, then think alike.
In a world of flexible
spine and rigid mind,
muster an unbending
spine with expanding mind.
