Best Ravi Poems
To Raja Ravi VarmaOh, Ravi Varma, you are a legend!
When I look at this Indian postage stamp
(brought out in your honour),
a miniature of your self-portrait
with the inset of your painting
of the legendary Damayanti
with the mystic swan,
I am of course reminded
of the well-known...
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Categories:
ravi, art,
Form:
Free verse
For Ravi Shankar: This Is What It WasRaga. 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 sometimes
what effects us until it
has done so.
Play music in the cell phone
and breath while awaiting the
bus.
Pour honey onto bread at...
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Categories:
ravi, nostalgia
Form:
ABC
For Ravi Shankar: This Is What It WasRaga. 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 sometimes
what effects us until it
has done so.
Play music in the cell phone
and breath while awaiting the
bus.
Pour honey onto bread at...
Continue reading...
Categories:
ravi, absence
Form:
ABC