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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 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: shankar, 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 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: shankar, absence
Form: ABC
THE LINES OF THE LIFE
Never gone away from the light
Never seen the daunting sites
Never clashed with horrible tides
Never ceased down the rhythmic rides
People would think
What is all ?
It is nothing
Just semi-rhythmic
tunes of life's hall.
Life is mystery of the circumstances
People dive through its resultants
No one knows about this traumatized stream
So...

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Categories: shankar, 1st grade, blue, color,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



THE LINES OF THE LIFE
Never gone away from the light,
Never seen the daunting sites,
Never clashed with horrible tides,
Never ceased down the rhythmic rides,
People would think,
What is all ?
It is nothing,
Just semi-rhythmic
tunes of life's hall.
Life is mystery of the circumstances,
People dive through its resultants,
No one knows about this traumatized stream,
So...

Continue reading...
Categories: shankar, 9th grade, blue, color,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things