Best Chennai Poems
Below are the all-time best Chennai poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of chennai poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Chennai Floods - Second PartTHE CHENNAI FLOODS - SECOND PART
No food nor drinking water, those alive, pity
Faced chillness, starvation and panic in eyes
No medicines, no blankets and no clothes...
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Categories:
chennai, courage, halloween, horror, loss,
Form:
Ballad
The Chennai Floods - First PartTHE CHENNAI FLOODS - FIRST PART
Firstly the rains came calling cool
It instantly brought hope and happiness
For people relished the Celsius dip down
And hoped for reservoirs...
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Categories:
chennai, courage, halloween, holocaust, horror,
Form:
Ballad
Categories:
chennai, birth, class, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
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:
chennai, anti bullying, patriotic, political,
Form:
Sonnet
Beloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's Poem Asai Mugam By T WignesanTranslation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
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Categories:
chennai, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Jai HindA poem for republic day.....
~~~~~ Jai Hind ~~~~~~~~
From great nation, India, we hail,
Where Indus valley used to prevail.
Emperors came, emperors gone,
We always regained our own...
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Categories:
chennai, appreciation, children, inspirational, patriotic,
Form:
Light Verse
The Malay Pantun: Post-Colonial WritingLa 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:
chennai, on writing and words,
Form:
Pantoum
Limerick: Once a Meat-Vendor In MylapurLimerick: 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...
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Categories:
chennai, humorous, religion,
Form:
Limerick
Categories:
chennai, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 10Your bombs and canons come late far too late now to put together your sundered arms
...
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Categories:
chennai, inspirational, time,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
People Trapped In MarbleJul 2013
Chennai
Proof that an indivisible portion of time exists,
Frozen in that time, unchanging,
Morphed into the metamorphic rock, forever,
Hacked, packed, moved,
masoned into walls of a ritualistic...
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Categories:
chennai, how i feel, life,
Form:
Free verse
K373 and K374 of the Thirukkural Translated With CommentaryK373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL: Translated with Commentary
The poet's name, THIRUVALLUVAR [Thiru = Sacred and Valluvar = the name of the priesthood caste of...
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Categories:
chennai, appreciation, bible, christian, fate,
Form:
Couplet
Wake Asia Wake - Part Two - 3(Continued from Part Two - 2)
While those that lay claim, nay, boast of
to the largest democratic state
a...
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Categories:
chennai, inspirational, voice, voice, ,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
On the Need To Avoid Being Envious: Canto Xvii, K161, K162 of the Thiruk-KuralOn the need to avoid being envious: Canto XVII, K161, K162 of the THIRUK-KURAL, Translation with Commentary
[ ENVY, of course, knows no racial nor ethnic...
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Categories:
chennai, evil, hate, jealousy, racism,
Form:
Couplet
To the Authors of Manimekalai - Part TwoPart Two
To have written is to leave but a mark
nothing stands for the proud rhyming syllables
more than his acquired...
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Categories:
chennai, on writing and words,
Form:
Free verse