Best Kalidasa Poems

all my deepest thoughts, all my inward reflections 
                         surround the mysterious constellation, 
       ...

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Flattered... my name meaning a Princess of ancient times, 
In the state of Malawa, where temple-bells rang chimes,
Bard, Kalidasa, composed in Sanskrit an epic great
About a Princess and her story of disguise and fate. 

Agnimitra, handsome Prince, enamoured by her beauty, 
But he was not...

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The Story of History  

Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With  the resurrected  sashay’s charmed night
Down in the dumps   at the pretentious  proscenium
A  shy  orchestration sans bark and bite
Afloat in  the...

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Evoke and pray to Gods Varun* and Indra*
And to Apollo not to go on long vacation
Play hide and seek with the earth as kids do
And bring a rainbow with its rich colors to see.

Do not bring mausim** in excess
Even Nectar consumed in excess
Or any overdose...

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The Cloud Messenger 
(On reading Meghadootam of Kalidasa)

Words fail to describe its exceeding beauty 
Immortalized by the poet of matchless ability
Whose pen danced to the tunes of melody
That conferred on it the status of a celebrity. 

Anyone with fondness for outstanding verse
Will at once fall...

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Little 
may my love sound,
yet a bright star I do love,
Stella,
Who in the center of the sky,
being lulled in her mother’s lap,
does blink and wink on the sly to express her divine love.

To express my mortal love,
I wink and blink slyly,
yet she may not clearly...

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How fortunate do I feel,
when I think of my mother, deriving
my name from the classic story
by Kalidasa, the greatest Bard in Sanskrit -
The story about the Princess of Malawa,
who happened to be in disguise as a
humble dancer in the court of Prince Agnimitra!

The Prince was...

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