SIMPLY YOURS

ENGLISH LOVE POEMS

PRAVEEN KUMAR
 EXCERPTS FROM

SIMPLY YOURS
ENGLISH LOVE POEMS

PRAVEEN KUMAR

(PUBLISHERS: PUBLISHAMERICA, LLLP, MARYLAND, USA)

 DEDICATION PAGE

I’m incomplete, my Love, without you,

Hell or heaven, my Goddess, you are my all -
These poems are lovingly dedicated to
Priya Chaitra Tapasvini -
Most Charming and Most Exquisite Wonder
Ever born in this world.
PUB L I SH ED WORKS OF PRA V EEN KUM A R

POLICING FOR THE NEW AGE

POLICING THE POLICE
UNKNOWN HORIZONS
PORTRAITS OF PASSION
DIVYA BELAKU
BHAVANA
PRIYA CHAITRA TAPASVINI
INSIDE INDIA
LOVE & PRIDE
INDIAN POLICE
 PREFACE

SIMPLY YOURS is about love and its “sweet misery”. Love

is like heaven, but sure can hurt like hell. Love as Vict or Hugo
said, “the r e d u ct io n of the universe to a single being, the
expa ns io n o f s ing le be ing even to God”, where, i n Bill
Wilson’s words, “to the world you may be o ne person, but to one
person you may be the God”. Francis Bacon says that it is
impossible to love and to be wise. Love is also variously
d e f i n e d as being stupid together. This volume of love poetry is
about that stupidity.

Love is called as crazy. It grows beyond human senses,

perceptions and consciousness. It knows no human laws. Maslow’s
Needs H i e r a r c h y has no use for it. Neit her basic needs nor the
h ig he s t need of self-actualization can ever stand up to the
magical height of the love. The beauty of love lies in the e n t i r e
sum of existence revolving around the magic of being needed by
one person. Love is when hurting her will hurt you more. I t is not
that you can’t l ive without her ; it is just t hat you don’t eve n
want to try. “Simply Yours” is about this madness.

The treasure of love is unique and unparalleled. Felix Adler

elegantly describes the nature of love when he says, “that each
include the other, each is enriched by the other”. Hans Margolius
gives expression to the same thought when he says that one man by
himself is nothing, two people who belong together make a world.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. It is

in this reference that great Kahlil Gibran says that love knows not its
own depth until the hour of separation. “Simply Yours” is simply a
probe to the depth, and comes out with the conclusion in the words
of Pearl Baileg that the sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. Love
reminds you that nothing else matters. Love is a light that shines
from heart to heart and feels what the other is feeling even if they are
far away. All these live and lovely layers of love are deeply probed
in the seventy-nine poems of this anthology.

Love here is modeled after Priya Chaitra Tapasvini – the

sublime and rare paragon of conscience and c o n s c i o u s m o r a l
r e c t i t u d e , most charming and most wonderful creation of pure
beauty, devotion, love and sacrifice ever born in this world, most
perfect and prettiest in all worlds. This volume of poetry is lovingly
dedicated to that exquisite wonder God has ever created.
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I remember Shobha with profound love and regard for being

the strength and inspiration of this and all my literary works and life
and coming again in pursuit of the goal. This volume is a small
tribute to her resolve transcending all barriers in the second advent.

My son, Pratheek is my strength in pursuit of my literary

activities and seems like carrying forward the avocation. I thank him
for his consistent help. I must confess that it is my father Shree R. D.
Suvarna who made me whatever I am now. I would have never
ventured in to literary pursuits without his encouragement.

My deep gratitude is also due to my wife, Jayashree, who

naturally is the first reader and critic of all my literary compositions
apart from being the first effective proof reader. I thank her for all
her cooperation. Also, my mother, Smt. B. Sarojini, my sister,
P r a m o d i n i Ganesh, br o t he r , Nishith Kumar, sister, Asha
Narasimha and brother, Sushir Kumar stood behind me in this effort.
I record my gratitude to all of them.

I would be failing in my duty if I fail to make at least a

passing reference to the wonderful work the publishers,
PublishAmerica, LLLP, Maryland, USA is rendering to the literary
world worldwide, indeed within natural constraints and limitations.
PublishAmerica is a boon to budding authors. I say it as an author of
seven published volumes before becoming a proud PublishAmirica
author. I thank PublishAmerica and its staff for their wonderful
work.

Any comments or suggestions about the book are welcome

at [email protected].

September 1, 2009 PK
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CONTENTS

WE DISSOLVED IN THE OTHER

YOUNG ROMANCE
I WENT THERE TO BID HER ADIEU
RAGING FIRE
FRAGRANT JASMINE
SHE SPELLS SIMPLICITY
SHE IS PURE GOLD
MY SELFLESS ANGEL
ON THE GOLDEN REGAL THRONE
HER RESOLVE
IN SCALDING POT
COSMIC PROBE
SOUL BOUND TO SOUL
WHILE TIME COMES RIGHT
IN CELESTIAL WINGS
SIMPLY YOURS
YOU ARE LIFE’S SPRING
MY ELUSIVE PRETTY WIFE
WE LIVE IN HOPES
CRYSTAL GLOW
BLOOMED IN ENDLESS JOY
IMPREGNABLE BOND
I’M INCOMPLETE WITHOUT YOU
MARCH 29
PARTING RHYMES
PARTINGS MEANT TO DEEPEN BOND
SHE IS SOUL’S GLOW
I’M JUST NOUGHT WITHOUT HER
SHE FLOODS MY SOUL
DIVINE IS MY STATE
ACROSS THE GULF
I NEVER REACH YOU
CELESTIAL MUSIC
MY MORTAL EYES
WE WAIT
IMPREGNABLE DARKNESS
A PASSING PHASE
THE TOUCH OF SPRING
IN CELESTIAL RHYTHM
HIDE AND SEEK IS OUR NATURAL GAME
I HEAR ALL DAY YOUR LITTLE WHISPERS
IN NATURE’S CELESTIAL TIE
SAPNA
LOVE BIRDS
IN CAGE
ALONG THE VENNELS OF YORE
GULF OF LIFE AND DEATH
THAT DAY
TIMELESS SONG
PARTING
LOVE SONG
ACROSS THE HILL
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I HEAR HER SING

DISCOVERY
BYGONES ARE BYGONES
TEMPLE OF WORDS
SHE SMILES FROM A MYSTIC LAND
ETERNAL SEARCH
SAD MEMORIES
RECOLLECTIONS
MY LOVE
I LOVE YOU FOR WHAT YOU ARE
PRISTINE WORLD
STOP COMING
LOVE
IMMORTAL LIGHT
I KNOW HER
CANDLE LIGHT
FRAGRANCE
EVERLASTING JOY
FORTY YEARS BACK
FROM UNKNOWN HORIZONS
ON HER
RISE AGAIN IN THE EAST
WITH LOVE
SWEET MEMORIES
WHO ON THE EARTH SENT YOU HERE
SHE IS THIRTY, I’M SIXTY
HER SWEET SOUL NEVER HURTS ANY
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EXCERPTS

I entreated her to gentle passions,

Held her heaving bosoms in my shaking hands;
Stripped her wide open to a gorgeous view:
Full, young and round, and hale and sweet like ale;
I sank my whole deep to her soft vale,
Liquesced in soft mounds of irresistible warmth;
She quivered like dry leaves in dulcet thrill,
In swells of sweet passions exploding in limbs;
She was not then her own, her usual quiet soul.

DISSOLVED IN THE OTHER

They rolled in pleasure, they heaved in joy;

They were drugged in mad desire for each;
She lived in his joy and he, in her,
They shed their beings to reach each other;
She found her world in him, and he, in her,
The eager loves sought to dissolve in the other;
No fears touched them, no pride or comforts;
Like the sunshine meets the sky in daybreak,
They fused in soft passionate hug
And spread white glow of immortal light.

YOUNG ROMANCE

I raised my eyes to mouth my words,

Lo, I saw her bosoms uncovered for my feast,
Round and firm, and lovely like full moons,
Spread all over there, crowning over heart,
Bespeaking to my soul, calling me to field;
She saw I saw and thrust them forward
With welcome sunshine glittering in eyes;
Shocked by pleasures, shocked by the spell,
Shocked by elegance those jewels radiate,
I lowered my eyes in awe and joy.

I WENT THERE TO BID HER ADIEU

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Encircled like creepers around the other,

We breathed each other, filled each other;
Heart throbs and rhythms running in tandem,
Undiminished desires peaking to new heights,
We lay on each other in peace and solace
While exhausted is body, but raging are passions;
I gently embraced her, pressed lips to lips,
Gratitude for her love swelling in heart,
And we both slipped to slumber of peace and rest.

RAGING FIRE

You sit on soul like fragrant jasmine,

You touch my soul like velvet feathers;
The warmth you radiate melts all gloom,
Sunshine you spread enwraps my soul
And I transfigure like God in your presence.

FRAGRANT JASMINE

She is quiet strength, natural wealth,

Whose simple strides on royal path
Rouses ripples of silent condescendence
‘Midst commotions of wild conflicts;
Sheer harmony like the birds on wings,
Sheer poem of the spring’s sweet swings,
She reaches and stirs inner chords,
Thaws the frosts of the age-old strife.

SHE SPELLS SIMPLICITY

Elegance in simplicity is she,

She soothes and calms raging fires;
Creative refrain of confidence,
She spreads pure joy all around;
Pure and fragrant like fresh jasmine,
She is pure gold, diamond’s glow.

SHE IS PURE GOLD

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She was aglow, whenever I, nearby,

A subtle dear charm pervaded her then;
She bloomed like flower, fragrance I felt,
A divine halo I could feel and touch in her;
A charming tide of joy I brought to her,
She sparkled like gold while I came near by.

MY SELFLESS ANGEL

You looked not back thereafter,

Stone after stone and row after row,
Love and trust’s temple you raised
Around me in sanctum sanctorum;
So sacred I felt myself,
I rose to God’s heights
And bestowed you with devout boons.

ON THE GOLDEN REGAL THRONE

She knew, her soul, not one, but two,

And repriming it is killing both;
She breathed life and sailed all this length
To seek and light her soul’s quiet lamp.

While bound by the world, duties do make calls

And they called their shares at her cost;
How shrink from world and hurt all round,
It bled her heart to hurt all round.

HER RESOLVE

Once caught in the web of life,

Neither you nor I disentangle or waive,
More you come out, more you are caught;
You are in scalding pot, burning hot alive,
But, refuse to give out yours own.

IN SCALDING POT
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You are my inner force,

I’m outer sheath;
You make me, me; I, you, you,
We together really are one.

You rip off entire cosmos

In your sacred probe
To track and join me
And bring fulfillment.

COSMIC PROBE

We traverse all worlds, soul bound to soul,

We move all heaven, heart tied to heart;
We light all worlds with divine glow,
Dark shadows oft emerge to retard our flow.

Barriers while stand dividing us,

Unbearable pains cripple both of us;
We yearn to rejoin and force to reach,
But worldly barriers are too strong to breach.

SOUL BOUND TO SOUL

Nothing is lost in cosmic scheme,

Neither you nor I can lose each other;
Day and night along the time’s cycles,
I watched awake to find your trace;
Alas, time raced, years rolled in scores,
But, nowhere had I traced my lost soul;
Now, eyes go dim, bright flames go dull.

WHILE TIME COMES RIGHT

You give me an axis, my horizons,

Wherein I swim in joy of what I am
And make me I, and I’m yours
Of unalloyed mould of heavenly bond
Of shared pains and shared pleasures,
Where age is no constraint
And distance is no bar.

SIMPLY YOURS
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Barriers or no barriers, I must cross over

And hold you in arms, light up your soul,
Fill you with strength from my inner core,
Wipe away your tears with my quivering lips
And infuse my warmth all over your height
To see you in spasms burst out in pure joy
To relegate distresses to constant oblivion;
How I yearn to instill hope and confidence in you
That, barriers or no barriers, we never part
And we shall wait, till time comes right.

IN CELESTIAL WINGS

You bring me wings

And raise sky high,
You give me visions
Beyond horizons,
Make me worthwhile.

You are my anchor,

You are navigator;
I simply sail along
The width and breadth
On your simple sigh.

YOU ARE LIFE’S SPRING

I was in deep sleep that winter night

And darkness did freeze the world around;
Not a single star twinkled in the sky,
Not a single streak of light anywhere;
Blind and cold and still, not a thing stirred;
I was living dead like a piece of wood,
Sinking deep in barren lifeless world.

IN CELESTIAL RHYTHM

Love sprouts in heart and sits in soul,

Love bounces from soul to light up loved things,
Love lights steady flame of heavenly bliss
And melts all pride and binds loved ones.

I LOVE YOU FOR WHAT YOU ARE

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When I saw her alone in soft moonlit glow,

She stirred soul and caught me whole;
Shocked by her gentle divine grace,
I ravished her spell by my eyes
And drank those charms to my brim;
But, inexhaustible was her unbound beauty
And unending was my endearing thirst.

SHE FLOODS MY SOUL

Two souls, minds, hearts, bodies

So longing for each, believe me,
Will never never ever part.

Have trust in God,

Give God time to act;
Kindly do not lose heart,
Do not lose hope;
All will be all right
While time comes right.

PARTING RHYMES

When in contemn for what the world did for me,

What talents did it fail and what grace did it cloud,
What noble thoughts it sunk in vile dins and sound,
In utter despair, my love, I, for light, seek thee.

What heights did I scale, to what vales was I shown,

What dreams streamed sublime were crushed and blown,
How unkindly was I put down and mercilessly thrown,
When, my love, I recount, you, fill in from horizons.

DIVINE IS MY STATE

I probe your shades and ripples of passions,

Sty your hills, delve deep to dales,
Fulfill your needs of love and joy
And raise a new world of lonely fulgour
Where you, for me and I, for you
Live like gods of supreme benison.

DISCOVERY
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Their hearts spoke, though they could not;

Chill was too deep to bear for them,
For, they must part, part forever
On divided roads to loathsome future;
How could they part, none of them know,
How could they live, bereft of each?
They met each other in gloom's deep pond
And found rare warmth, exclusive for them
That stirred all cool and thawed their moods.

GULF OF LIFE AND DEATH

Across the pall of unending night,

You send happy signs of love and hope
From the sunny land of lustrous light,
Where you sit like god in stoic charm.

While I fill my soul with joyous snug past

To forget the scars inflicted by fate,
You rise from the heaps of time's gray ash
Like medicated fumes to soothe my strains.

TIMELESS SONG

She brought me halfway here,

But, my home is not yet near;
I need her warmth more than ever,
Her love and care, to lead forever.

Her intense eyes and gentle hands

Invisible though, glide me through time;
Alas, time is short, 'twixt us stands,
And part us all, while time makes claim.

MY LOVE

You dig each layer and reach the world,

A magic land unfolds with bright colours;
Wherever you look, there is passion,
Wherever you turn, there is fragrance;
Shades and hues of infinite joy
Play a riot in the heaven on the earth.

PRISTINE WORLD
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She keeps on my side in pains and pleasures,

In sunshine of days and glooms of nights,
In chills of winters, in heat-waves of summers,
In innocence of childhood, in ripeness of old age,
In joys of births and sorrows of deaths.

FRAGRANCE

Let our soft fibers pass through the nature’s grinding teeth
And brook infinite odds along the life’s course
That fate ordains for the final meet of souls;
For, only beaten gold makes exquisite piece of art
And only hard work invests life with grace;
Destined are we in nature’s painful course
To meet and unite in immortal love’s bond.

RISE AGAIN IN THE EAST

She steered herself thro’ the space of age

And docked her ship to my dying module;
She gave me boost, injected fuels,
I took off to new worlds on her promise.

A subtle long chord across the age

Bound us tight to intimate bond,
Like milk and honey, we dissolved there
To fulsome broth of love and solace.

SHE IS THIRTY, I’M SIXTY

A gentle flame of celestial lamp,

She burns herself to spread light;
Hurtling none and soothing all
Along and around wherever she traverse,
She calms soul, sweetens heart.

Her soul is glow of compassion,

Her heart is flow of benign ness;
She gives herself to accommodate
And invite hell for fairness’ sake;
Selfless is my goddess and crystal pure.

HER SWEET SOUL NEVER HURTS ANY

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Praveen Kumar with his more than three decades of government

service in senior levels and as a poet of six published collections and
as an author of four volumes on matters of governance and public
interests is a familiar face in Indian intellectual circuits. His contributions
on these topics to prominent national dailies and periodicals of India
and journals like The Indian Journal of Criminology And Criminalistics
of MHA, GOI, Delhi were very popular and often sensational by their
innovative unorthodox thoughts.

Born in Mangalore as the eldest son of Shree R.D.Suvarna

and B.Sarojini, Praveen Kumar graduated in Science from St. Aloysius
College, Mangalore, going on to obtain a post-graduate degree in
Literature from Mysore University. He also holds post- graduate diplomas
in Business Management and Cooperation. In his student days he was also
a prize-winning orator and writer. He lives in Bangalore with his wife,
Smt. Jayashree and son Pratheek. He is a familiar face in national
seminars and TV networks in India as a Poet and thinker.

Love here is modeled after Priya Chaitra Tapasvini – the sublime

and rare paragon of conscience and c o n s c i o u s m o r a l r e c t i t u d e ,
most charming and most wonderful creation of pure beauty, devotion,
love and sacrifice ever born in this world, most perfect and prettiest in all
worlds. This volume of poetry is lovingly dedicated to that exquisite
wonder God has ever created.

SIMPLY YOURS is his seventh collection of poetry.