Best Brahmin Poems
Curse of Caste
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I
They came on bullock-carts
loaded with gods
Indra
Agni
Varuna
Rudra
traversed sinuous mountain ranges
rivers
gurglin......
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Categories:
brahmin, birth, class, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
The Little Master, Sachin Tendulkar
...The Little Master, Sachin Tendulkar
At Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai,
The Little Master chose to say good-bye;
His Rembrandtesque canvass hat shading eyes,
He whispered thanks up to high-......
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Categories:
brahmin, character, courage, endurance, inspirational
Form:
Ballad
Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
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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 the eminent Br......
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Categories:
brahmin, anti bullying, patriotic, political,
Form:
Sonnet
Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subba Iyer's Poem Thaye Yashoda By T Wignesan
...Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subba Iyer (circa 1700-1765)’s « THAYE YASHODA » by T. Wignesan
This devotional song and poem in Tamil (the principal Dravidian language which has spawned ov......
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Categories:
brahmin, god, mother, religious, universe,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Beloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's Poem Asai Mugam By T Wignesan
...Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
By T. Wignesan
Out of......
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Categories:
brahmin, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Master Valluvan, the Long-Misunderstood Tamil Mentor - Part Two
...Part Two
SEVEN STARK WORDS
Seven alliterative blockbuster words struck so
they rhymed initially in juxta-positioning lineal parallels
pausing but in th......
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Categories:
brahmin, on writing and words,
Form:
Free verse
Limerick: Once a Meat-Vendor In Mylapur
...Limerick: Once a Meat-Vendor in Mylapur
Once a Meat-Vendor in Mylapur*
Set up shop (O!) Brahmin virtue pure
No hungry customers
Knocked past the front shutters
Though brisk business raged at rear do......
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Categories:
brahmin, humorous, religion,
Form:
Limerick
Brahman Nemesis
... Brahman Nemesis
22 But to those who adore me with a pure oneness of soul, to those who are ever in harmony,
I increase what they have and ......
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Categories:
brahmin, betrayal, god, racism, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Akbar, the Great 1542 - 1605
...Can a man – all alone - foist a god upon his fellows
Even if it’s only himself
And they his subjects
G.. is Akbar!
Does the muezzin from the minaret of Qoutoub-Minar
look up or
down to the illitera......
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Categories:
brahmin, adventure, , atheist,
Form:
Free verse
My Penchant
...To 32
What a way to appear on screen
With cascadic hair open umpteen
Wishing me on the festival of lights
Giving me extreme delights
Oozing with passion from looks I say
Glittering with fervour......
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Categories:
brahmin, angel, appreciation, art,
Form:
Couplet
Krishna's Advice To Arjuna - Part Two
...II
for Thodti trailing barefeet his dried coconut-stick broom on cracked macadam
in the gutter festering oozing fresh month-old drying turds urine remains of fed-up banana-leaves skins withered jasm......
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Categories:
brahmin, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Addictions: Smokes, Drugs, Sex, Films and Sleep - Xl, Part One
...Unquotable quotes: Addictions: Smokes, Drugs, Sex, Films and Sleep – XL
Where the hand leads, the eyes close.
When the eyes shut, imagination is on fire.
What you don’t really see is what you......
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Categories:
brahmin, abuse, addiction, baby, drug,
Form:
Epigram
Villanelle: To What Great Good Singular Individuals Sacrificed Their Lives
...Villanelle: To what great good singular individuals sacrificed their lives
To what great good singular individuals sacrificed their lives
To free their peoples from the oppressors’ superior mo......
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Categories:
brahmin, community, history, political,
Form:
Villanelle
K373 and K374 of the Thirukkural Translated With Commentary
...K373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL: Translated with Commentary
The poet's name, THIRUVALLUVAR [Thiru = Sacred and Valluvar = the name of the priesthood caste of the « Pariah » (whom Mahatma Gandh......
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Categories:
brahmin, appreciation, bible, christian, fate,
Form:
Couplet
Ode On Old Virtues
...Virtue, thou art old wine of vague value
Admired even by vintners nary more,
Nor by the adherents taking time’s cue,
Ye decorate archaic ancient lore.
Watch new high-fliers that surface from sh......
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Categories:
brahmin, good morning,
Form:
Free verse