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Best Raga Poems

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Morning Raga - "tell Me a Story!"
In the first grey light of dawn, a young woman begins the morning song.
The simple cadences of her song are as tranquil and liquid as...

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Categories: raga, happiness, love, musicsong, husband,
Form: Narrative



Assasination Raga
Meir Kahane, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy 
 All gone by the assassin's bullet
     My blood chills at...

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Categories: raga, death, history
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The First Showers
Monsoon rains 
Bring festivity, each year
Yet I eagerly wait, to get wet
In the first showers, each year.

The peacock of my heart 
Dances round ‘n round,...

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Categories: raga, earth, happiness, rain,
Form: Verse
The Untold Story of a Sitar 3
 

The Untold story of a Sitar Part 3 Concluded

.
A soothing musical note
Was coming out and floating 
In the air 
In that White coated 
Old...

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Categories: raga, music, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Shore Temple of Mahabalipuram
The mirtangist may never willingly hear
may not want to hear
the multaiyam announcing his cue
nor the melodist aware of the flautist's right
to the change in the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: raga, devotion, ocean,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Woke Up Feeling Green Today
Woke up this morning missing the country way of living,
This city life is just breaking down my stride,
I’m yearning for the rolling rocky mountain highs,
And...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: raga, adventure, animal, dream, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Ragas - Part 1
Love in my life, flashes like a comet.
Still, memorable moments of forelsket.             ...

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Categories: raga, 12th grade, boyfriend, break
Form: Narrative
Indian Singh
Hiding in the trench in the French sand,
Indian Singh fights like a British soldier.
It seems it is the ending of the universe.
Dark curls of smoke...

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Categories: raga, war, universe, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Betrothal
BETROTHAL was sure you'd come
Waiting on the steps
Saw a hawk circling
Across blue sky.
My hair glittered in twilight
Slippery steps , algae invading
Eyelashes flickered in kajal.
My face...

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Categories: raga, passion, rain, blue, rain,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Fusion
FUSION

Breathtaking brook braving brazen bruises became broken
Entered estuary emanating exuberance
Reopened rosary resonated rhapsodic raga
Together these tides tried to tackle tortuous terrains
Flowed far fathoms freely fertilizing...

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© Anu Nayak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: raga, relationship, river, strength,
Form: Verse
Angel's Do Exist
It's the Love, It's the feeling, deeply echoing from my heart!! 


O'my sweet little Hazel,
Your deep naughty smile while dreaming,
Laughing damn with pretty open eyes,
Your...

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© Madhavi Sp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: raga, baby, birth, blessing, happy,
Form: Blitz
For Ravi Shankar: This Is What It Was
Raga. Sun shifts as fingers on
sitar.
Ravi Shankar is dead.
Old women in dark clothes 
make it down the road through
a tabla of sounding rain

We know not...

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Categories: raga, nostalgia
Form: ABC
For Ravi Shankar: This Is What It Was
Raga. Sun shifts as fingers on
sitar.
Ravi Shankar is dead.
Old women in dark clothes 
make it down the road through
a tabla of sounding rain

We know not...

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Categories: raga, absence
Form: ABC
Vasava - An Untold Story 6/Many
Vasava – An untold story                    ...

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Categories: raga, life, love, musicday, dance,
Form: Free verse
When Mind Awakens
When mind awakens, then comes “Bhairabi(Indian raga)
The awakened mind makes you a poet
Never think yourself as disregarded
Still the breeze blows, waves flow flowers bloom, and...

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Categories: raga, love
Form: I do not know?

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