Best Tabla Poems

At Paro of Bhutan I found the clouds
Gathering over the snow white peaks
Over the summit the deep blue shroud
Kept looking on in dazed disbelief

If one...

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This little man,
This shake of hair and shoulder life.
A smile, a grin on the last improvised beat.

This finger wonder,
palms retreat with a snap
as the santoor...

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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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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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Writing can be anything,
Set down on willing page.
Love and loss, 
Both popular trains of thought.
Or better yet the loss of love.
Better still is the agony...

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manifest pentru pace
(antipoezie)
  
 traim sub tunuri ?i avioane 
 cu armele încarcate cu propriile noastre pacate traim
 pe timp de pace sau razboi...

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She plays the tabla, Indian drums, a Canadian!
"Fanna -Fi" is their name; Qawwal their claim to fame

O when you are at a loss ... or...

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I believed you would come today
I filled the pen full with blue ink
gold was coming into the grey
preparing the ground for the pink

you love, I...

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On a cold night when the starlight 
whispered into the ears of the alluring 
hanging oranges looking for the 
pulsating pores of purple passion
in the...

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Sri Lal
Crows

i.
I come from nowhere,
and I have nowhere to go,
I tell the crow perched 
on a low neem branch 
beyond the Periyar River.

He agrees.

He and...

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