Best Diwali Poems
DIWALI- FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS
Gilttery lamps, Myriad diyas and light
Illumination pan India filled with delight
Whole nation splendent like lovely bride
The zest of fest spread far and wide
From northern mountains, western sands
To eastern coasts and southern islands
The spirit of triumph of good over bad
To dispel darkness like light, in life to add
To cleanse both our inner and outer sleaze
Infuse purity, love and peace like fresh breeze
Plenty sweets, delicacies for taste-buds to savour
Fire-works add shiny and shimmering flavour
All families get together to celebrate this occasion
Bond of love enhances in every relation
There’s fun, there’s frolic and there’s prayer
Brings happiness and joy this feast every year!
glossary:
Diya- is an oil lamp, usually made from clay, with a cotton wick dipped in ghee or vegetable oils. Clay diyas are often used temporarily as lighting for special occasions, while diyas made of brass are permanent fixtures in homes and temples.
date: 2nd November 2016
Happy Diwali friends
As golden orb descends in dainty steps to invite
black darkness to embosom the sky at night
on this joyful eve of 'The Festival of Lights,
amidst dangling artifacts - a common sight,
my simple clay diya radiates light so bright:
glowing and gleaming steadily despite
swaying gently in soft wind after twilight -
and gently whispers Divine wisdom to enlight
our souls with the bliss of purity of the right
and in its warmth, may the spirit of goodness alight
and dispel the gloom of hatred and greed - to ignite
and invoke the holy spark of Truth in delight
Date: 11/4/2021
2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 18 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Mark Toney
Goddess Sita and God Ram will arrive,
But before that their Hanuman Ji,
In the pushpak vimaan
Houses are glittering today,
No sign of darkness
Happiness is spreading all around,
No sign of trouble
All the doors are open for you
All the hearts are open for you
Oh my God!
Come in our hearts,
Come in our homes,
Fill our life with pleasure,
I know it's really hard,
To spend 14 years in the forest,
And we must learn from you
But before that from your best friend
Who occupies your heart
A warming smile is waiting for you
How long will you take?
Don't tire our open gates
Don't break our patience
We're waiting for you,
Not only Ayodhya,
The whole world is waiting for you
Millions of earthen lamps are lighting
But crackers are not required
They increase the distance from your
So let's go closer to you
By spending the day cracker free,
Oh God, we're waiting for you,
To say,
Happy Diwali!
Decorating homes and workplaces
Illuminating with diyas and rangoli for five days
Worship ceremonies of Lakshmi, goddess of properity
As mentioned in early Sanskrit texts
Light over darkness
Indian subcontinent origins
written November 4, 2021
since nearly three millennia
the exact origin
muddled thru times
come every fall
from the Taj Mahal
to sacred temples
to the humblest homes
around the world
the festival of lights
dazzles during five days
of exuberant worship
and lush ritual in celebration
of triumph of good over evil
millions of oil lamps and candles
and sparklers are lit
setting the nights ablaze
in honor of knowledge
and consciousness
as families gather and feast
unleashing prayers for peace
Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~NAMASTE~ 2020
AP: Honorable Mention 2020
Submitted on June 28, 2019 for contest YOUR CHOICE SEASONS-FESTIVALS VERSE sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - RANKED 3RD
DIWALI
After the heat and then the rains
As a cool quietude starts to reign
Bringing into fraught lives more glee
Comes the day of lights, Diwali
Time, on fireworks and feasts, to splurge
Love, joy and hope finding a surge
Nights turn light’s veritable sea
During the time of Diwali.
The oil bath ritual helps restore
Nerves sore, bringing love and peace more
‘Good quells evil’ is what we see
As the message of Diwali
Even those who’ve got to borrow
And the ones caught in mild sorrow
Whatever their private woes be
Joy to them too, come Diwali.
For the famished and the homeless
The day remains just as hopeless
Their bellies get a fill rarely
For them it's empty Diwali.
Written :02/Dec/12
Diwali is India's Festival of lights.
Form : Kyrielle (Quatrains with 8 or 10 syllbls, Rhyme Sch:aabB, ccbB, ddbB, eebB.)
Second place in Cyndi Macmillan's Season of lights contest( Dec 2012, judged on 7 jan 13)
happy diwali
crackers yummy food house lit-----
bye bad welcome good
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* Holiday chosen is Diwali or Deepawali, a festival of light--
will be celebrated in India on 5th November, this year.
Diwali involves the lighting of small clay lamps (divas) (or Deep in Sanskrit:)
filled with oil to signify the triumph of good over evil.
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Sixth place in :
Contest: Holiday haiku sponsored by Deborah Guzzi
Twinkling stars in courtyard light up the sky,
On an absolutely dark moonless Diwali night ,
Sprit of festival comes in alive !
Everyone looks glamorous, in best of attire,
Colourful lights and candles glow bright,
Twinkling stars in courtyard light up the sky !
Warm Embrace puts an end to enmity and satire,
Sets off every mood exactly right,
Spirit of festival comes in alive !
Colour display of crackers, no fight fire with fire,
Exchanging sweets and gifts gain new height,
Twinkling stars in courtyard light up the sky !
Beauty in ideas beyond diamonds and sapphire,
Vast hearty emotions walk in equal delight,
Spirit of festival comes in alive !
Return of Lord Ram to Ayodhya we celebrate,
Worship of Goddess Luxmi, prosperity to plight,
Twinkling stars in courtyard light up the sky,
Spirit of festival comes in alive !
Written on 7/5/14
Sponsor- Charlotte puddifoot
Sweet Diwali, hymns we offer to you
Clothe us with fresh sari , draping our souls
Through purest grace of lotus we renew
Blossoms of hope, this jubilee consoles
Clothe us with fresh sari , draping our souls
Grant us brocade of peace when struggles rise
Blossoms of hope, this jubilee consoles
Lifting hearts across dark winds that chastise
Grant us brocade of peace when struggles rise
To dance on petals as lanterns adorn
Lifting hearts across dark winds that chastise
And enshrine all worlds the joy of your song
To dance on petals as lanterns adorn
Oh, praise be this day when light bestows faith
And enshrine all worlds the joy of your song
Ringing chants, through heaven’s luster, we bathe!
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* "Diwali", the festival of lights, is a national holiday
in India that symbolizes the search for light in darkness
to bring forth love and joy amidst doubt and obstacles.
Cyndi Mac Millan's Contest: Love Letters
to Indian Subcontinent
by nette onclaud
Pantoum Poetry
DIWALI-THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS
Divine and joyful
Indian Festival of lights,
Which unites
All religions.People
Light lamps to attain
Inner peace
They light up
Homes and cities,
Exchange sweets and gifts
Fun and excitement
Everywhere. People throng
Stores to buy
The crackers and clothes,
Intrigue by the
Vast collections.Both
Adults and children
Love this festival.
On this auspicious day,
Friends and relatives meet.
Lighting a lamp
Illuminates our lives,
Generates joy,
Happiness,and
The word Diwali brings
Smiles across the country
Be the light;
Be quick,
Be straight.
Be the light,
Show the right way.
Be the light,
And help until the sunrise.
Focus,
To generate the spark.
Use badness as fuel
And scare away the dark.
Use the light
To highlight the goodness,
Be a lighter
And burn the badness.
Be the light,
Be colourful from inside
And clear from outside.
Be the light
In the darkest situation;
Be the hope.
Be the light
So that no one
take you lightly
Light up yourself
From the inside spark.
Become a killer,
But only for the dark.
Candle is calling,
Just light it up.
Diwali is here
Prayers in soft lit temples
Triumph over evil
HAPPY DIWALI FESTIVAL
The day we live with joys,
Sounds with crakes of harmony above the sky see,
Thousands of sparkle with ambrance,
Everywhere see the light of peace,
Some burned the sin of their lives,
And some burned the old memories,
Better than yesterday,
Everywhere I walk through, people of peoples with a smile,
All enjoying the festival of Diwali with honest and pride,
The sound of that night all sorrows has been burn out,
With the smoke of evil,
Though the rising sun is all absent,
The smiling moon was here to give us it stays with a smile.
And ends with honest for Diwali is meant to joy.
By Nehemiah Theophylus Haokip
Date of birth 28/12/1997
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Diwali is festival of lights of Hindus in India.This festival has a religious background
and celebrated all over India and outside also.The poet is sad on this day when this
festival is being celebrated all around, the crackers are let off and the lights are lit
on the terraces of the nearby houses there is joy and celebration all around but the
poet is sad deeply and missing his beloved for his beloved did not wish him on this most
joyful festival.
The poet here expresses here his feelings whatever he feels when he looks around himself
and remembers his beloved.
Blue,green,sparkling white,
make the sky as day bright,
earthen pitcher and candles light,
whole the town filled with spright,
Market,streets are over joyed,
men women tots enjoyed,
earth sky and even air,
seem to accompany wordly pleasure,
Poor and rich all alike,
exchange wishes loose their pride,
worship,prayers wishes are made,
to Rama,Ganesh and Lakshmi Goddess,
Lights are there all around,
pleasure, happiness seem to be bound,
dark is there in my heart deep,
filled with sorrow but cannot weep,
Lights I see putting on terraces,
adorn the townbut me embarraces,
glowing of lights,noise of crackers,
give me pleasure but I am averse,
In the glow of lights,
I see her face bright,
in the noise of crackers,
I feel her laughter,
The pleasure of the world,
like her happy converse,
whole the sparkling sky,
it seems me as her eyes,
Low sounds of prayer,
it seems as she utter,
in the wind- blown pitcher,
I feel as she murmer,
Lights are made to enlighten world,
no light is there to glow my heart,
the light to my heart, shadowed by her,
two words of "HAPPY DIWALI" she did not utter!
“HELLO. AYODHYA”,
SAID RAM ON THIS DAY,
AYODHYA BECAME, THEN,
HAPPY & GAY,
VICTORY OVER RAVANA WAS ACHIEVED,
AFTER LONG STRUGGLE,
IN THE MODERN ERA, IT SEEMS,
LIKE THE LIFE OF A BUBBLE,
14 YEARS OF LIFE,
RAM SURVIVED IN THE FOREST,
WORST CONDITIONS ALSO,
HE TURNED INTO BEST,
WITH THE FORCE OF MONKEYS,
DISEASE RAVANA WAS MADE DEAD,
THE MEDICINE OF TRUTH,
OVER LANKA BEING SPREAD,
RAM WAS WELCOMED BACK,
WHEN HE MADE A SUDDEN SALLY,
LIKE AYODHYA TO RAM, I WISH YOU,
“A VERY HAPPY DIWALI”