OK… ARE YOU REALLY OK?

( A book Synopsis)

By Bhaskar Benjamin

Poetic dialogue with the celebrated Persian poet/astronomer/tent maker….. OMAR KHAYYAM

Rejoinder to each of the 101 quatrain (Tetrastich)…in the same poetic meter….aaba

Based on English translation of the Rubaiyat…..

Note: Puritans/purists can rest their case….as this is a book on positive thinking….not a commentary on Omar Khayyam!!!

Introduction and sample dialogue….

This is a dialogue with a forgotten friend
  Who probably lost his way…on a certain bend
Of life’s road…and to wine he turned
   I wish… he saw a beginning ….in every end

For life’s road goes up and down
     It’s true….for both rags and crown
 But the road isn’t just full of holes…
    There’s great beauty too….why drink and drown?

This dialogue…in fact, is with all those who
   Can’t look at the heavenly fresh dropped dew
 See life just as an endless toil…
    And take as crutches…….this deadly brew !!!

Bhaskar to Omar :

Are you really Ok…..o my dear Omar ?
  You’ve written great poetry….yes it does stir
Strange thoughts in me….some good some sad  
But these DOUBTS! O ‘ Omar…they lead us nowhere!

Sample Quatrains:

Omar:

For some we loved, the loveliest and the best
  That from his vintage rolling time hath prest,
Have drunk their cup a round or two before
    And one by one crept silently to rest

Bhaskar:

Things may come and things may go
  Wash your hands in this heavenly flow
 Don’t cry any more for the love that is lost
    For love never loses…don’t you know !

Omar:

Alike for those for To-day prepare
  And those that after some To-morrow stare
A Muezzin from the tower of darkness cries,
   “Fools ! Your reward is neither Here nor There.”

Bhaskar:

A little hope and then… despair !
  O Omar, do you think… this is fair ?
One moment …you talk almost like a saint…
  Next moment you become King Doubter’s heir !