The Ullapara Station
...Nineteen years passed by
Kismet met again in Ullapara, a new
Nineteen years before
Roshna Begum, stood there, ahead, all of them, upfront.
Entropy a storm, a kindled Maugham, lit the latitude, br...
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Categories:
begum, appreciation, assonance,
Form: Salaam
Royal Belle
...Royal beauty with posture awesome
Emitting aura graceful wowsome
Belle being from my favourite place
Of Princess Hayath Bakshi Begum I assess
A future IAS with tantrums regal
Inspires me to ...
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Categories:
begum, angel, appreciation, art,
Form: Couplet
Vhonani Takalani Poem
...I hope these words will arrive.
These words dedicated to you Vhonani Takalani.
I broke the hearts along the way.
When am begum searching you.
At the end, I Found you.
But now I can not see you...
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Categories:
begum, dedication,
Form: ABC
Slaved Love of Anarkali
...Her name was Anarkali,
an eloquent carnival of legendary beauty.
a dancer in the court of Emperor Akbar.
Deep russet rouge blushed her red,
a silky smile on her rosy peach cheeks
rich, sensual...
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Categories:
begum, dance, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Thirty
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Thirty
While the Mullah versed in the Hadith and fiqh harangued his flock
All over the milling crowds outside plastic cups did hands lock
By four even before...
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Categories:
begum, allegory,
Form: Rubaiyat
The Taj - Symbol of Love
...Anyone who visits this great grand beauty
Stands transfixed at its sublime majesty
The lavish magnificence in marble body
Stays incomparable as an edifice in history.
The emperor who built this fame...
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Categories:
begum, beauty,
Form: Free verse
The Unmarked Grave
...The myriads of unmarked graves in the cemetery
Presenting miserable image of human heartlessness
Uncared and unsung by near, dear all and sundry
Forsaken and abandoned, victim of unkindness
Which on...
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Categories:
begum, death, mother, sad, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Mother
...A banyan tree that shields from tropical summer sun
A symbol of selfless love and sacrifice
A preserver of values that modernism has shun
No praise is enough, no gratitude suffice
Her love ...
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Categories:
begum, devotion, family, love, motherfor
Form: Rhyme
Invocation To Mount Purandhar
...Invocation to Mount Purandhar
(Thoughts of March 1966 recollected in tranquility in July 2004)
We are now entering the restricted areas,
There will be no more girls or women,
The presence...
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Categories:
begum, passionwomen, women,
Form: Verse