A DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR ON THE CONSORTIUM OF THE IAE
Message to my Compatriots in the International Academy of Ethics….
I feel truly inspired and elated to be a part of the Formation of this INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ETHICS, through the Vision, Mobilization and Execution by none other than the famous Poet- Philosopher Dr. Jernail Singh Anand. We may recall, in this context, that the Great Poet PB Shelley had proudly talked of Poets being ” the Unacknowledged Legislators of the World”, thereby accentuating the bedrock of Justice and Ethics in every Creative Endeavour of Humanity…. Life and Literature / Higher Learning are mirror- reflections of each other and I sincerely believe there can be No Wisdom, Knowledge or Aestheticism without the quintessential power of Ethics as a Regenerative Force of our World.
This ETHICS ACADEMY proves beyond doubt the Humane Understanding, Perspicacity and Sagacity of Dr. JS Anand with whom we are conjoined in a Participative Ethics Mission to enable our communities to Learn the First Lesson of a Good Life…..viz. Ethical Thought and Action to reverse the tide of events from War to Peace, from Hate to Love and of course from Perfidy to Ethics to promote the Higher Self for a Better World of Light, in the true sense of the term…..
CONGRATULATIONS DEAR SIR DR. JERNAIL SINGH ANAND…..
PROF. DR. LAKSMISREE BANERJEE
HERE IS MY NEW POEM AS HUMBLE CONTRIBUTION AND STARTING POINT FOR THIS ETHICAL ENTERPRISE….
MY PLEA
Dear my brothers and sisters of the world
Can we not love and live together??
Can we not share our salad days of joy
Our crumbs of pain and hunger in rough weather??
Can we not use our plate of the sky
To share our spaces of fulfillment
To save ourselves from our own ploy
To quench our thirst and eat and cry??
Can we not dissolve our partitions
In the song and flow of rivers eluding detrition
In the lucid aquamarine seas so deep
The green sheaths of Nature can we not seep??
For we remain on the same boat unaware
Ever floating in amnesia and false glee
Despite the annihilating overcast spree
We ride in this same wavering ship
In our saving Ark after the Apocalypse
As darkness comes again with padded paws
In the glitz of mushroom clouds quietly spreading wings
In lifeless digits of licence and debauchery
With the reckless rumble and tumble
Of civilizations once more gone awry
We have become predators of ourselves
Preying upon our own, forgotten to pray!!
Dear my brothers and sisters of the world
Can we not discover this clandestine foe
Rummaging through the last tit-bits of our lives
Can we let the comfort of love and peace go??
There I see the storm gathering power on
Our own horizon of pink purity in transcendence
Camaraderie of the moon and tides and skies
Amity of the orioles, sun, land and seas gone
Birds and fishes dying in their playful songs
Come let us break barriers to celebrate each other
Since history may just open its killing vaults again
Come let us lance these shackles of ephemera
Come let us merge with the elements
Of Eternity, of Humanity once more in aura!!
@ laksmisree banerjee