I’ve never claimed an understanding of poetry and have never had any affection for it either, but once in a while some bits catch my attention. Verse, lyrics, any other form…<\/p>\n
The dawn rouses one man to acquire wealth People say I’m crazy doing what I’m doing For how long a period is it that the dawns have risen? People say I’m lazy dreaming my life away Gone are the men who in the days before us I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round Now the fun is, most of you would have realised that stanzas 2, 4 and 6 are Lennon’s classic ‘Watching the Wheels<\/a>‘, and the rest? Stanza 1 is the Rigveda Mandala 1 Sukta 113 verse 6; stanza 3 verse 10 (both translations by H.H.Wilson) and stanza 5 verse 11 (translation by Ralph Griffith). \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n until next time, more per verse \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve never claimed an understanding of poetry and have never had any affection for it either, but once in a while some bits catch my attention. Verse, lyrics, any other form… The dawn rouses one man to acquire wealth Another to earn food, another to achieve greatness Another to sacrifices, another to his own (pursuits) […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1479,412,6053,3],"tags":[1655,1657,1659,1658,1656],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughtstream","category-life","category-purpose","category-when-it-gets-verse","tag-john-lennon","tag-lyrics","tag-rigveda","tag-verse","tag-watching-the-wheels"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15393,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions\/15393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnother to earn food, another to achieve greatness
\nAnother to sacrifices, another to his own (pursuits)
\nAnother to activity, and lights all men
\nto their various means of maintaining life
\nUshas (dawn) has given back all the regions<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWell they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin
\nWhen I say that I’m o.k. well they look at me kind of strange
\nSurely you’re not happy now you no longer play the game<\/em><\/p>\n
\nfor how long a period will they rise?
\nStill desirous to bring us light Ushas (dawn)
\nPursues the functions of those that have gone before, and
\nShining brightly, proceeds with the others (that are to follow) <\/em><\/p>\n
\nWell they give me all kinds of advice designed to enlighten me
\nWhen I tell them that I’m doing fine watching shadows on the wall
\nDon’t you miss the big time boy you’re no longer on the ball
\nAh, people asking questions lost in confusion
\nWell I tell them there’s no problem, only solutions
\nWell they shake their heads and they look at me as if I’ve lost my mind
\nI tell them there’s no hurry
\nI’m just sitting here doing time<\/em><\/p>\n
\nLooked on the rising of the earlier mornings
\nWe, we the living now, behold her brightness
\nAnd they come nigh who shall hereafter see her<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI really love to watch them roll
\n<\/em><\/p>\n