Poem: Everest is Not The Only Peak

Poem

Everest is not the Only Peak 

Now, read the poem ‘Everest is not the Only Peak’ in blank verse and get to know the greatness of human virtues from the poet’s perspective.

We are proud and feel so tall,

Our virtues though be few and small

Our nature it is that whatever we try

We do with devotion deep and true.

Defeat we repel, courage our fort;

Cringing from others we haven’t done,

To seek a gain we adore none:

We are proud and feel so tall.

We deem it our duty and mission in life,

To bless and praise the deserving ones;

Never shall we fail in what we commit,

Shall nourish the ones that nourish the world.

We are proud of the position we

Hold; humble as we are,

Our pride springs from the way we live.

Ours is a path of dignity and honour,

A life that knows no kneeling and bending.

We are proud and feel so tall.

Everest is not the only peak,

Every hillock has a summit to boast!

The height you reach is not that we care;

He, who does not stoop, is a king we adore.

We bow before competence and merit;

The ones that are true and stand on their own

Are really the ladder for the rise of Man.

Honour is a property, common to all:

In dignity and pride no one need to be poor.

We are proud and feel so tall.

About the Author

Prof. V.C. Kulandaiswamy (1929 –2016) known as Kulothungan is an eminent technologist, a man of letters and an educationist known for his pioneering contributions in Hydrology, Literature and Education.

He has authored six volumes of poems and seven of prose essays which earned him the Thiruvalluvar Award from the

Government of Tamil Nadu in 1999. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1988 for his book Vaazhum Valluvam. His works deal with themes that reflect the gamut of human progress and the all-pervasive human effort.

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