Now That We Are Here
...Life is an interesting phenomenon
Everyone talks about it.
But who knows about it completely?
Is it so difficult to be fathomed?
Having said that it’s not bizarre to comprehend.
All scriptures...
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Categories:
asoka, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Like a Lotus Let Me Bloom
...Let me bloom like a fragrant lotus;
From the pool of mud-
-I've got my self, drowned in;
Remorse ignites courage;
For the long way ahead.
And is there anyone to listen to me today?
It's just on...
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Categories:
asoka, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Salutations To Tiranga -Indian National Flag
...Salutations to Tiranga (Indian National Flag)
Mother India was freed from the British shackles...
To tyranny we bid adieu, new freedom welcomed!
'Tiranga' with due honour, replaced the 'Union ...
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Categories:
asoka, appreciation, art, patriotic, remember,
Form: Free verse
The Poet and the King
...You are the Poet,
Among the first five;
I do understand,
You are the
Poet of the Poet;
The best poet!
Neither “Homer”
Nor “Gibran”;
Neither “Neruda”;
Nor “Tagore”;
Like all other
Poet of the Poets;...
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Categories:
asoka, inspirational,
Form: Blank verse
Unique Utkal
...The history of Utkal is enchanting...
That made Asoka peace~loving;
That took Kharvela to the peak of fame...
& disseminated to every corner Mahanadi's name...
& then the pages of history says...
The...
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Categories:
asoka, mother, beauty, beauty, history,
Form: Couplet
Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 3
...No wisdom more canny than the folksome pantun’s peasant proverbials
Wake! Monde Malais! Wake and note no Sultan whirls as a Sufi
Nor no Sage of Singapore pouting platitudes ...
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Categories:
asoka, inspirational,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 2
...Wake! and see the extent to which you’re still enslaved
enslaved by your own kind who hanker after conditioning platitudes
the clubby comfort of secretly oath-taking power cliques
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Categories:
asoka, inspirational, old, old,
Form: Dramatic Monologue