One of my Best Poems

I have read many poems, but some of are very close to my heart. This poem is one of them....

Sonnet to the pupils of Hindu College 

Expanding like the petals of young flowers 

I watch the gentle opening of your minds. 

And the sweet loosening of the spell the binds, 

Your intellectual energies and powers, 

That stretch (Like young birds in soft summer hours) 

Their wings, to try their strength, O, how the winds 

Of circumstances and freshening April showers 

Of early knowledge and unnumbered kinds 

Of new perceptions shed their influence; 

And how you worship truth’s omnipotence. 

What joyance rains upon me, when I see 

Fame in the mirror of futurity, 

Weaving the chaplets you have yet to gain 

Ah then, I feel I have not lived in vain. 

 ***by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

Creation & Imitation

When a child comes into this world, he knows nothing about the strange world he has come. He is then taught and trained all that are needed to survive in this world. He does not know the feeling of hunger. He does not even know how to express when he needs to go for nature’s call. Everything he has to learn. He is then trained how to speak, how to express his feeling, emotions even behavior he should do with anybody. Then he has to go through another step to acquire knowledge. That is to earn educational qualification. It is a lengthy process which claims at least a decade. After completion of this educational phase a child is becomes a Man, i.e. he is grown up.

He has acted under for a longtime before he has been entitled as a Man. He has imitated as he had been asked or ordered. Now whatever he would do in future, he would do depending on his previous knowledge he had earned. If he writes an essay in good sentence then it is to be believed that he had once been taught how to write sentences. If he makes a toy assembling the different things, then it is to be believed that he has the knowledge of assembling and a concept of how a toy looks. Every task he performs comprises of so many knowledge earned in his childhood. All that he does are called imitation. Now the point comes, what is called Creation? Indeed it is a complex question after discussing so long. That is called creation where there should be no copying, no old data but a new one with new appearance, new style, new thought, new features everything new. How that can be considered as new or creation where that would be developed depending on the previous knowledge. All the elements of the creation would be collected from the previous knowledge to give the creation its figure. Therefore why the creation would not be considered as imitation whereas the creation itself is standing on the previous knowledge earned by imitating. Defining a job as creation depends on the person who defines it. If the subject-matter of the job is totally unknown or new to a person he would then certainly define the job as creation. If it is known or familiar to him he would obviously entitle it as imitation. The word creation is indeed a relative term. And if you ask me what is called relative term then I would have to go to Einstein.