Best Chitra Poems

Memories mottle my butterfly’s wings
Shimmering and cute they are from my past
And a new song the bard in me now sings
On two sweet ones from  the  database vast.

“ Chitra Salabh” is the word in my tongue
For this insect so loved by old and...

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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 over twenty languages in the southern Indian sub-continent) is –unlike
Western poetical traditions – strictly composed to accord...

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I have been gone for a while
needed time to regroup
this delectable mixture
this poetry soup

When I am not here
I wonder with query
uplifting comments of Karen Leary

Kristin Reynolds my friend
this is not a wrap
as she weaves you into her poetry trap

Sharon Weimer my sweet
just how are you
she...

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It was never her choice,
to be into the red gallows.
Body sold in the witching hour,
forsaking her hemorrhaged soul, 
she moves on.
Twitching in pain,
trembling limbs,
scars of yesterday’s lust,
squashing the very being out of her,
yet she bounces back in the morning.

A wife and a mother, 
her own...

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Patradoot or The Messenger 4/Many

English version by
Ravindra K Kapoor



Decorated with the beauty of letters,

Your clear body would be ornamented,

And as a wing of my broken heart,

You will steal my feelings, dear.

Ravindra

Kanpur India. 12th May 2010          ...

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To be unrestrained and happy,
the only reverie I contemplated about.
For those who would never come by,
are the only prized memories now.
Every time fate crushed me,
I held on and bled.
Every time I tried to listen,
leaden silence deafened me.
Every time I longed for rainbows,
a deluge of tears...

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The morning sun shines  into my window. 
I am awake thinking, 
thinking about our long lost days. 
Those days were so wonderful. 
We were like the leaves on the trees,
 bright and  beautiful.
We were like a rainbow,
 the leaves, the dancing flames of...

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Distance may keep us apart,
Argument may happen when we meet.
Yet unexplainable is the feeling that we both share.
Our hearts may be miles apart,
Yet Soul in unison. 
We may not be able to express a lot,
Yet the best of partners we both are.
Like a rainbow beneath...

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A day at the bank, 
I could never forget,
With the scowl-faced monsters all around.
Am I in the prehistoric Jurassic age? I thought. 
They smell the greens so well, 
their ear for the tinkles so clear.
Those radiating smiles,
reflecting their urge to hunt down their prey,
those who...

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Hospital Corridors

The corridors of the hospital have so many tales to tell, 
my new found friends are the security guards, 
"Standing at your service they say",
without even a second of pause they stand there.
With tales a many to unfold through the night, 
so that they...

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The day of birth decided,
the date of Death.
In the theatre of life that unlatched,
happiness to what count
heartaches to what count to be taken,
to be scripted down on my own. 
Knew this all,
spoke it all,
but the ambrosial journey that started,
now being pervaded by languor.
Due to a...

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Straying back to the dreams, 
I stand here glancing at the flirting butterflies, 
crooning hummingbirds, 
grasslands, trees, and floral beds. 
Air brimming with a fiery glance, 
Kissing her beloved, the distant horizon.
The mesmeric pearls of teardrop of the earth gently sway, 
with the halo of...

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The scarlet glow of my soul is omnipresent,
when I gazed at the glow, 
the radiance in me rekindled.


@Chitra Arun...

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You came tiptoeing into the fortress that I build,
Broke the shackles that cinched my soul, with your shimmering eyes.
Disintegrated the iron chains that I wore,
with the warmth of your smile and the fondness in your heart.
Liberating caged birdie, which I held on.
Au naturel I am...

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