Best Tabla Poems
The Dance On the Mountain Peaks...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 takes up my fountain pen
Or snatches my ......
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Categories:
tabla, absence, allusion, beauty, blue,
Form:
Rhyme
After An Evening of Indian Classical Music......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 speaks
This collage, this vo......
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Categories:
tabla, happiness, imagination, life, music,
Form:
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
......
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Categories:
tabla, 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
......
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Categories:
tabla, absence
Form:
ABC
Writing Without Reason...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 of agony,
The awful angst of it all.......
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Categories:
tabla, on writing and words
Form:
Blank verse
Manifest Pentru Pace...manifest pentru pace
(antipoezie)
traim sub tunuri ?i avioane
cu armele încarcate cu propriile noastre pacate traim
pe timp de pace sau razboi
(who cares?... nobody gives a ****!)
ma......
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Categories:
tabla, courage, hope, self, self,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Fanna Fi Sing From Canada...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 down ... hear them sing!
Fanna-Fi is the band's name, in well......
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Categories:
tabla, angst, atheist, cheer up,
Form:
Ghazal
I Believed You Would Come Today...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 knew, the iambic
with the rhythmic sounds of tab......
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Categories:
tabla, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Paradiddle of Being - Book Two: The Becoming...VI.
We are all metric modulations
of our former selves—changing time signatures
mid-measure, learning to count
in odd meters when life refuses
to conform to 4/4 expectations
fi......
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Categories:
tabla, extended metaphor, fate, identity,
Form:
Lyric
On a Cold Night When the Starlight Whispered...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 light and dark of moonlight
In that bitin......
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Categories:
tabla, art,
Form:
Free verse
Eternal Dance...These bronze companions
Dha-dhin-dhin-dha flows from the soul
Through seasoned fingers
Tete-kata-gadi-gana
Six decades of dance in palms
Father's rhythms —
Dha-dhin-dhin-dha lives within ......
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Categories:
tabla, devotion, music, surreal, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Crows...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 I are free.
We speak the sam......
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Categories:
tabla, bird, fire, prayer, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse