Long Banyan tree Poems

"Play the audio is in accord with the dramatic monologue," ... by the Poet

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The story behind this poem
The curiosity of many of my readers (many of them women) was excited in my previous poem ‘Passion in Black and White’ POTD 6 March. They wanted to know more about...

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"Look, Grandma! I can see them! You were right! They do steal!" I jumped up and down in all excitement. Grandma grabbed the binoculars from me, pressing it as close as she possibly could to...

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In the winds, old histories tossed, 
To speak of it, freedom that’s lost,
From the hill tops Dostoevsky screams aloud, 
Lost their God indeed, the proud.

Much can’t say but, tis I tell,
Where is this, that conflicts...

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Exciting walk; barefoot on warm rock while cold spring water
burbles past me. “Hey! over here.” she calls. 
A puppet, my instinct guides me there again;
Creek ends in dark green pond. “Hi” I answer.

My body tingles...

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"
Those who  serve others selflessly with love and dedication,
Those who constantly smile through all trials and tribulations,
Those who lead a life of near perfection,
Yet are humble in disposition,
Of God, they are a personification.
Such persons...

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My feet is moving but I am standing on the ground, my heart is reeling, and I want to get out of this miserable town; fraudsters and haters all gather around knocking the tambourine and...

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those powerful hands, embodying strength, offering a refuge, 
          the determined voice which carried assurance to fearful souls....
    a banyan tree stretching its...

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13, West Macott Road

My limbs are weak and body old,
Tired am I and withered are my bones,
The skin has wrinkled and is quickly peeling off,
The heart is lifeless and tears have dried,
My feet are shrinking...

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Sitting here at my desk
Two hundred meters above
I watch the bustle of life below.
The slow moving traffic, the crowd at lunch-time
Pedestrians at the traffic lights
Heavy blue-black glass blocks towering to the skies.
 
In this austere...

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I’ve understood
This annoying lover lockdown won't let me leave free anymore
No, I don't know anything divine; no oracle I have
But I have to say goodbye to the lover of a joke called lockdown

From tomorrow I...

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yogi under the banyan tree
                yogi under the bodhi tree
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After a short run
The road takes a diversion :
A curvilinear path.

Throwing a long lush green shadow,
The woods devoid of sorrows
Invites the heavy down power.

I peep into my heart
Behold a guy of five-six years old
Collecting withered...

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Dancing vibrant hues
Blink in shades of blue
Peafowl, A majestic bird
Our nation's pride

Peacock -  Pride of India
Come, visit and enjoy
All are welcome, yeah!!!

Yellow sturdy physique
On glimpsing him, the forest shrieks
Bright black stripes on body regal
Stands...

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Many of us celebrate the time when Jesus lay in his feeding trough

Own a place in our home do not have to knock on so many doors


Put up Nordic fir cut from woods or plastic...

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The Ungrateful Sorrow
by Rabindranath Tagore

Translated by Snehendu Bikash Kar
 
At dawn, shey(1) left
My mind consoled me:
" Everything is Maya(2)".

Angrily I replied:
"How can you say that?
Here's this sewing box on the table,
that flower-pot on the terrace,
this...

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I sit under that banyan tree
The same one we met under once
We were in our own world
Despite the blazing guns

The winds caressed your cheeks
The birds sang paying homage to your beauty
Your hair in which I...

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Little mud with thatched hut
Many were in this hut from my forefathers
All are passed away

I saw there was an old banyan tree on the corner of home yard
A tamarind tree was there on the east...

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Boated through the tantalizing Kerala backwater
                      in a pleasant summer morning;
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The  village  where  my  father was  born.
After  so  many  years
Still  not   changed
Except  that    electricity   arrived  there ,
The...

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My shadow asks me to relate last night's dream
I say - No! I don't want to recall it
My shadow elongates longer and darker than
That of the pine tree which stands at 
The final turn of...

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The honeydew on lashes freeze
And freeze with awe the sinking heart
Oh misty scenes by window's pane
Thy sight my gloomy soul has fraught

Oh that I fly as angels do
Oh that I may in thy heart dwell
With...

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People say, it’s very difficult to reach out to their fathers,
But my father adds to the count of my cap’s feathers.

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Apples are the early birds
Each pink and green mixed 
Take us,  put us in place
Yes, you are welcome
Smiles the gold plated goat's horn
The twilight cat meows


I'll hold the apples
Insist the maple leaves
Oranges join them
What...

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a destination
            challenges and setbacks to overcome 
     waves of frustration
Impulsive excitement
  exploration
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