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A Fling

Thinking causes lots of pain
Talking doesn't cost a thing
Therefore, rest your weary brain
And give your tongue a fling.

 

The Road to Wisdom

The road to wisdom? –
Well, it's plain and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.
 
 
 
Living Is
 
Living is
a thing to do.
Now or Never
Which do you ?
 
 
 
What Love is Like
 
Love is like
a pineapple,
sweet and
undefinable.

 
 
Pornography

My reading of Pornography
convinces me afresh
that satisfaction of the flesh
are better in the flesh.
 
 
 
Dream Interpretation
 
Everything's either
concave or -vex,
so whatever you dream
will be something with sex.
 
 
 
A Toast
 
The soul may be a mere pretence,
the mind makes very little sense.
So let us value the appeal
of that which we can taste and feel.

 
 
Mankind
 
Men, said the Devil,
are good to their brothers:
they don't want to mend
their own ways, but each other's.
 
 
 
Taught
 
We are taught to live,
we are taught to feel.
We are taught to conform and conceal.

We are taught so well
what we ought to feel
that we cannot feel what we feel.
 
 
 
Naive
 
Naive you are
if you believe
Life favours those
who aren't naive.
 
 
 
Good Advice
 
Shun advice
at any price -
That's what I call
Good Advice.
 
 
 
Problems
 
Problems worthy
of attack
prove their worth
by hitting back.
 
 
 
Inscription for a monument at the crossroads (An Epitaph)

Here lies, extinguished in his prime,
a victim of modernity:
but yesterday he hadn't the time --
and now he has eternity.



Above are Excerpted writings of the Emperor of Epigrams : Piet Hein (1905-1996). He was a Danish Scientist, Mathematician, Inventor, Author and Poet who lived in Denmark. His grooks were aphorisms of rhymed epigrams characterised by irony, brevity, paradox and satire.

Epigram - A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation.

 

Compiled by : Aparna Chatterjee

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