The Lure Of The Commonplace Comments

Though the men and women in soiled clothes having their hands and feet with cracked nails work hard in the sun yet they enjoy their lives with the family members without any agony and regret..It is a great philosophical poem nicely composed by you. I love the lines....Blessed are those who have eyes to see and feel ./ And remain happy being close to Nature’s heel.

Blessed are those who have eyes to see and feel And remain happy being close to Nature’s heel.....A heart touching poem!

Blessed are those who have eyes to see and feel And remain happy being close to Nature’s heel.......A heart touching poem!

you have chosen to see the bright side and done a wonderful job in your description thanks Valsa-10

The poem reflects the thoughts of most people. I think you have explicitly brought out how much all of us long to embrace the simplistic things in life, out of the hustle and bustle we live in today. The various minute things that you mentioned in the poems makes each of us smile. The very details we consider to be too irrelevant to our existence. A wonderful piece! :)

people perceive what they observe differently - then they start expressing it in a poetic medium. besides all the technicality and aesthetic values, what else can be the beauty of poetry. to me is the perspective of each individual poet made complete satisfaction when reading a poem. like this one, the poetess help me to see some place I have not seen before through her eyes. thank you Valsa George for sharing your perspective. :)

a usual or ordinary thing is the definition i found online for commonplace [used as a noun; used as an adjective, the definition is sometimes quite different! ]. well then, the description of a commonplace must change drastically as the location, time, inhabitants, etc. change. so if one were to live in the royal compound in bangkok many years ago, that commonplace would appear much different than a village in the jungle, but it would still be a commonplace to the royal compound's inhabitants. see what i mean? yes, i've probably gotten off the subject a bit............again. i am one of the peasants i suppose. this is a nice poem to read. some of the rhymes are quite inventive. thanks. if i remember, valsa, i'll send a private message. if i get time after my laborious works are over. ha ha. bri :) look at dinesh nair's comment if you will.

Liked a lot, a smooth painting of commoners' life where only the real beauty is hidden - you're to have your eyes to relish..... very nice

Liked a lot, a smooth painting of commoners' life where only the real beauty is hidden - you're to have your eyes to relish..... very nice

Kings palaces and Queens castles are not always the places that dreams are made of. It is the simple pleasures in life that do us good. A farmer plowing his field in the early spring is lovely. Workers humming their personal tunes are like songbirds in the trees. Children playing in tattered clothes having lots of fun oblivious to the stares from the well to do. Health instead of wealth, More love from above. A very potent write.

It's not only the exotic and unusual that allure but commonplace has it's own magic and beauty. Being down-to-earth takes us closer to God. It's a nice poem and flow in all 16 couplets is wonderful.

Not all of them madam! They too have a world of despair, pains and helplessness behind all these what we poets would like to report on. However, when the poet sees a world that is not so hypocritical as it could be if seen otherwise, our minds long to feel for it. Madam Valsa, blessed are you for throwing light on an identical common place of the kind.

Beautifully put. Those that live a simple life are not to be pitied and we could learn a lot from their modesty and humility.

Loved this poem throughly...thanks for sharing: -)

Those who bear the wear and tear of life to provide basic needs of others are noble souls. Their way of life is their source of joy. Valsa, you have brought these out with so beautifully. I thoroughly enjoyed this poem. Thank you.

when this poet writes...... ''How these common scenes fill me with delight Nevertheless making me sorry for the unhappy........'' remind destiny... of other side of our life

Blessed are those who have eyes to see and feel you're blessed, Valsa, to have seen and made us see.

Excellent write Valsa. It is true that the simple things in life bring the greatest pleasure. Enjoyed reading very much.

The common place, truly entices all those who are blessed with a humble soul. they are the luckiest whose hearts turn mellow, eyes moist, sense throb with gentle desire to know nature still closer, and crave to know her absolute profoundness of miraculous ecstasies. men who have chanced to read 'the immortal minds of the past', as Robert Southey had said, would have sure experienced the wet sharp green grass tips bearing the fleeting morning adornments, those tear drops of the night, when she sobbed in praise of the soldiers, about whom William Collins would wonder ' How Sleep the Brave! ', or of Sappho's enchanting emotional endeavors; those sensuous melodies like 'The moon hath left the sky; Lost is the Pleiads' light; It is midnight And time slips by; But on my couch alone I lie..'. and the list could still be a legendary garland of such invaluable beads.... your trance of observation at those humble moments and objects of nature causes a million of such shining bubbles on the surface of my humble heart. Prompts me to leave the busy practical world aside and dive deep into the serine caverns of never-aging nature... Thank you very much. God Bless, MY fingers run swifter than my thoughts causing exceptional vibe over the digital pulses...

nature's heel, good write, let us go towards supreme pleasure and Ultimate Truth, thanks.