Best Ceylon Poems
Banalata Sen - Translation From Bengali Poem
...This is a translation of the famous Bengali Poem " Banalata Sen". The author is
the renowned surrealist poet of India - Jibanananda Das (1899 - 1954). This poem is considered as his best and one of......
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Categories:
ceylon, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Cup of Tea
...Just one cup in the morning; no added flavor
Ceylon tea or Assamese is my preference
Each drip and each sip I so favor and savor
Betwixt too light and too strong. This makes difference
Its red-......
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Categories:
ceylon, happiness, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Breath of the Informer, An Allegory
...for Thirugnanamoorthy
Remorseful, the noonday sun
Frizzles with the stealthy wind
Under the rubbery mountain green.
A calmness has come to rest
From having tossed in its sleep.
The forest has taken ......
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Categories:
ceylon, allegory, history, war,
Form:
Free verse
Do Not Need To Complete Obstruction
...Horn Haiku.
To be culpable,
You do not need to complete,
Any obstruction.
Trump is never nice;
With his vice he does entice,
And sins shall suffice.,
Truly a lost cause;
Qualiti......
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Categories:
ceylon, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Haiku
Categories:
ceylon, food, funny, nature,
Form:
Lanterne
They Were
...They Were
They were boys going over the top to die in their tens of thousands in the mud of the Somme. ......
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Categories:
ceylon, history, military, violence, war,
Form:
Free verse
The Murder of Civilisation
...An Englishman lost in afternoon tea,
Memories of a lotus flower love
Rajas and elephants in Delhi
Livingstone the explorer
Religion to convert
Laurence of Arabia
A leader of men
The Boers and the Zu......
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Categories:
ceylon, patriotic, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Gemstones
...Stones in life strong like stones,
As a weapon,
As a tool,
Shelter over the heads of souls,
Even beyond the Era of stones,
Stones in plenty and in varieties,
Gems,stones,Gemstones,
Rare,durabl......
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Categories:
ceylon, identity, judgement, life,
Form:
Light Verse
Angel Mom
...You gave life to me
I was not an easy child you see
You gave unconditional never the less
I was just so young, I guess
There were many nights you cried
Praying on your knees at your bedside
T......
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Categories:
ceylon, death, mom,
Form:
Light Verse
To Miss Mckay
...The day was glorious, sun splitting the sky,
Sat down in utter bewilderment I asked myself why,
It started round with one miss Mckay around 5 years ago or so,
When i think of you i wonder what I ......
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Categories:
ceylon, angst, lost love, lovelove,
Form:
Verse
Burst of Sunshine Gleaming Teapot
...Grandfathers deep English voice joined hers in prayers
Apple trees shimmering in the sunlight beside the water
Crumpled apricot roses tumbled above the interlaced arch
The mistress of the h......
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Categories:
ceylon, devotion, family, places,
Form:
Verse
Aussie Cruiser Sydney
...OUR TIN POT NAVY so THEY SAID in 1914 Sydney in the first World War 1
In 1914 German cruisers were cut loose
and Emden she was one…………….…(fired 38lb shells)
the Indian ocean she did for hunting......
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Categories:
ceylon, war, war, world, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Random Eleven
...Beetle fobs on a trashed out war plane equals the dogma of a hidden few. Vessels whisper in a breeze. And no ant could utilise its soul. As all have a duty. All firm a line. Military precision in a c......
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Categories:
ceylon, blessing, , cute,
Form:
Do Not Leave Me !
...Do not leave me ! -
I am repeating, as a prayer,
I dissolve, melt away in you,
Do not leave me !
Some ships go to a bottom somewhere,
The storms and the hurricanes of a life are too abrupt
Bu......
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Categories:
ceylon, love, song-me, me,
Form:
Lyric
Biobab
...Biobab ever sits unable to stand but a tree.A broad trunked,huge like rocks,from silk-cotton family fruiting for paper,cloth and rope suiting.
Bab is gate in Arabic and the tree is an African ori......
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Categories:
ceylon, blessing, business, caregiving, character,
Form:
Blank verse