Forbidden Fruit Comments

@Violet Winters I really liked your thoughtful words, so beautifully spoken! I am glad to know you liked my poem. I am truly inspired.

Now, this I really liked! Benign defiance... always better to ask forgiveness than permission and love is always a forgiveable offense.

@ Amitava Sur Thank you very much for reading my poem and sharing your thoughts. Yes, grooming is very important in one's life. You've rightly said so.

A nice penning expressing the state of conscience. Khairul - personally I believe... that person is fortunate enough who is properly groomed. This grooming itself guides a person to build his/her conscience. Ultimately...... you are the Lord, you are the slave of you yourself

@Lorraine Colon, Thanks for reading my poem. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Thanks for interpreting the poem so aptly.

@Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi, Thanks for sharing your thoughts on my poem. I agree to what you've said here.

@Valsa George, I am grateful to you for reading my poem so minutely and interpreting the lines so aptly. I fully subscribe to your thoughts, thanks for sharing.

@ Aqua Flower, Thanks for appreciating my poem, and leaving your thoughtful words, to which I agree.

@Jasbir Chatterjee Thank you very much for your compliments on my poem and sharing your thoughts. Your comment is true- no one can disagree with you.

@ Marie Shine I cannot thank you enough for the wonderful compliments you have honoured me with. You have a unique ability to interpret a poem exactly as its author would like to do. 'though forbidden to even be in the proximity of your beloved, you were together in your dreams, where nobody had power over you.' - Exactly so!

I find much wisdom in this poem. The Guru slowly took away the possibility of the writer finding a bit of happiness in his life, So the writer cleverly and prudently devised a way to touch happiness without offending anyone. No one was hurt, and now life is more pleasant. I'd say he was very wise.

@Noreen, Thank you for reading my poem and sharing your thoughts. Am glad to know you enjoyed reading it.

@soulful heart Thanks for reading my poem and for leaving your comment here.

@Sandra Feldman, Many thanks for your your thoughtful comments. Appreciate so much!

@Beauteous Victory, Thanks for your comment. I agree.

@Geetha Jayakumar, 'Comments can vary from person to person' - Certainly, and therefore comments are so welcome! The poet can assess himself, think on the views expressed and improve upon himself. Thanks for sharing your thoughts which are not different from mine.

@Neela Nath, Thanks for reading my poem and leaving your compliments here.

Finally, my Guru forbade me To be in your proximity, Even to see you from afar. So in my dreams I started Seeing you as I wanted, With no Guru standing near. - - - - - -Nice lines.

in the privacy of our own mind, we are eligible to do whatever we like and no witnesses are needed to stone us for our inappropriate thinking...Luckily our religious verses were not written by a psychologist or a psychiatrist or a mind reader..

Your Guru may be a projection of your own conscience! Our culture attaches a lot of sanctity to man - woman relationships! Our instincts tell us to indulge in many things, but such wild whims should be checked by our own conscience conditioned by the values we have imbibed through years from our parents and gurus. If a Guru intervenes and puts restrictions, the younger generation, I am sure will phoo phoo over it! ! The last stanza beats it all... when the restrictions exceed limit, the mind finds its own mechanism to indulge in all that is forbidden..... Enjoyed this really humorous write and the title is very apt