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Best Allahabad Poems

Below are the all-time best Allahabad poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of allahabad poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Ode To Holy Ganga- Constanza
Oh Ganga! river so revered
your holiness purifies deep
if thy essence we let in seep.

From lord Shiva's hair you appeared
down the mighty Himalayas
quenching the thirsty souls...

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Categories: allahabad, river,
Form: Rhyme



A Poem As a Tribute On Mothers Day Part 2
A Poem as a Tribute on Mother's Day Part 2

I was again charmed 
By the singing of Koyal’s song
As the Koyal was still singing her...

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Categories: allahabad, inspirational, mother, mothers day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Curse of Caste
                   I

They came on bullock-carts
loaded with gods
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Categories: allahabad, birth, class, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
Patradoot Or the Messenger 29 /Many
Patradoot or The Messenger29 /Many 
  
English version by  Ravindra K Kapoor 
Originally written in Hindi by my 
Late father Dr. Amar Nath...

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Categories: allahabad, epicfather, city, father, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story - Vii-Ix
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - VII-IX  Continued

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of...

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Categories: allahabad, age, humor, love, sensual,
Form: Pantoum



Premium Member Gerard Sekoto, In Memorium: 1913 - 1993, Part Three
 [Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral...

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Categories: allahabad, friendship, world,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story - Iv-Vi
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story (Continued)

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

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Categories: allahabad, age, humor, satire, sensual,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member He Who Creates Re-Creates Himself
for René Passeron*

             You may not grow old too soon
   ...

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Categories: allahabad, art, time,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

Check out:...

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Categories: allahabad, age, humor, imagery, poetry,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan 

Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of...

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Categories: allahabad, anti bullying, patriotic, political,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Malay Pantun: Post-Colonial Writing
La capinera's wintering pieces of tropic tunes
    The garden warbler's echoes of dark melodies
Post-colonial poets return by summering fortunes 
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Categories: allahabad, on writing and words,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story -X-Xii
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - X -XII - Continued

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer"...

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Categories: allahabad, age, humor, literature, satire,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
 A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
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Categories: allahabad, celebrity, endurance, french, loss,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The Reading of Villon Poems At West Berlin's Free University During the 1957-58 Winter Semester
The reading of Villon poems at West Berlin’s Free University, Winter Semester 1957-58
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Categories: allahabad, inspirational, passion, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Patradoot Or the Messenger 26/Many
Patradoot or The Messenger26 /Many 
  
English version by  Ravindra K Kapoor 
Originally written in Hindi by my 
Late father Dr. Amar Nath...

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Categories: allahabad, epicfather, women, wife, courage,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things