THE SAINTLY MIND:a chronos--award winner

THE SAINTLY MIND: a chronos



Waters of the rivers go to sea,
Yet it never gets overfilled.
So should be a saint’s mind.
Desires do enter it but never
It does get overwhelmed.


• A chronos is supposed to be a single stanza poem with the syllabic counts 9,8,6,9,6.

• Award winner in The Writer's Cramp contest, "The Writer's Cramp" . The prompt was to write a chronos around the prompt “water”.

• The above presents the message of Gita, the Sacred Hindu scripture, at chapter 2, verse 70, which can be viewed at
http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/cgi-bin/show_gita_ch.pl?2_5



M C Gupta
6 June 2007