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The Chennai Floods - Second Part
THE 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 Part
THE 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
Premium Member Curse of Caste
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They came on bullock-carts
loaded with gods
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Categories: chennai, birth, class, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
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: chennai, anti bullying, patriotic, political,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Beloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's Poem Asai Mugam By T Wignesan
Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
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Categories: chennai, religion, spiritual,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Jai Hind
A 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
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: chennai, on writing and words,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: chennai, humorous, religion,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Poems: I Didn'T Say Poem
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Categories: chennai, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 10
Your 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 Marble
Jul 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
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: chennai, appreciation, bible, christian, fate,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member 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
Premium Member On the Need To Avoid Being Envious: Canto Xvii, K161, K162 of the Thiruk-Kural
On 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
Premium Member To the Authors of Manimekalai - Part Two
Part 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

Book: Shattered Sighs