Long Brahmin Poems
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Finally Saved Part 1 - Translation From Rabindranath Tagore
This is a translation from a Poem (Title - Niskriti) by Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel-Laureate philosopher poet (1861 - 1941) from India. The story successfully depicts the status of women in a patriarchal society of nineteenth...
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Categories:
brahmin, father daughter, love, marriage, women,
Form:
Free verse
Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan
Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Brahmin poet: Cuppiramania Bharathiyar (cf. two poems of...
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Categories:
brahmin, anti bullying, patriotic, political, racism, , literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Finally Saved Part 2 - Translation From Rabindranath Tagore
This is the Second Part of the Translation from Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel-Laureate Philosopher Poet from India.
Father only smiled; thought, "women
are emotionally heated balloons!
Life is a difficult salvation, they don't have that knowledge",
After...
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Categories:
brahmin, father daughter, love, marriage, women,
Form:
Free verse
Beloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's Poem Asai Mugam By T Wignesan
Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
...
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Categories:
brahmin, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Categories:
brahmin, betrayal, god, racism, religion,
Form:
Free verse
K373 and K374 of the Thirukkural Translated With Commentary
K373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL: Translated with Commentary
The poet's name, THIRUVALLUVAR [Thiru = Sacred and Valluvar = the name of the priesthood caste of the « Pariah » (whom Mahatma Gandhi prefered to call...
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Categories:
brahmin, appreciation, bible, christian, fate, philosophy, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
RED SEA
RED SEA
At the mouth I lay splayed
blood trickling, slowly dripping into soft mud or red Akashic ink
mud of my anus, ink of...
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Categories:
brahmin, allegory, body, color, courage, deep, emotions, imagery,
Form:
Ballad
Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subba Iyer's Poem Thaye Yashoda By T Wignesan
Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subba Iyer (circa 1700-1765)’s « THAYE YASHODA » by T. Wignesan
This devotional song and poem in Tamil (the principal Dravidian language which has spawned over twenty languages in the southern Indian...
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Categories:
brahmin, god, mother, religious, universe, , western,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Villanelle: Never Political But Spiritual the Ancient Indo-Chinese Pilgrim Ties
Villanelle : Never political but spiritual the ancient Indo-Chinese pilgrim ties
In Memory of the late pathologist (and amateur Astronomer)
Associate Professor CHONG Siew Meng, National University of Singapore*
Never...
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Categories:
brahmin, race, relationship, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Villanelle
Unquotable Quotes: Addictions: Smokes, Drugs, Sex, Films and Sleep - Xl, Part One
Unquotable quotes: Addictions: Smokes, Drugs, Sex, Films and Sleep – XL
Where the hand leads, the eyes close.
When the eyes shut, imagination is on fire.
What you don’t really see is what you feel.
When you feel at...
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Categories:
brahmin, abuse, addiction, baby, drug, mother, sensual, sleep,
Form:
Epigram
Ode On Old Virtues
Virtue, thou art old wine of vague value
Admired even by vintners nary more,
Nor by the adherents taking time’s cue,
Ye decorate archaic ancient lore.
Watch new high-fliers that surface from shores—
Go-getters getting tonnes in rare offers,
Tiger stripes,...
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Categories:
brahmin, good morning,
Form:
Free verse
The Little Master, Sachin Tendulkar
The Little Master, Sachin Tendulkar
At Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai,
The Little Master chose to say good-bye;
His Rembrandtesque canvass hat shading eyes,
He whispered thanks up to high-open skies.
Gods spurned earth but...
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Categories:
brahmin, character, courage, endurance, inspirational love, sports, tribute,
Form:
Ballad
Luminal Spectral Bubbles
[2ND: Premier Contest
Unseeking Seeker ]
“Love waits not for granting of consent
from anybody, anything, any action or role. Love is not conjoined or disjointed. Love Itself is each role & every scent, creating both as...
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Categories:
brahmin, allegory, allusion, assonance, change, creation, deep, growth,
Form:
Ballad
Mirza Ghalib English Translations 6
MIRZA GHALIB ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
Urdu poems about tyranny, the world, sky, sun, wind, night, faith, roses, creation & entropy.
Tyranny adores those who adore the tyrant.
—Mirza Ghalib, translation by Michael R. Burch
Having adopted a mendicant’s rags, Ghalib,
I’m...
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Categories:
brahmin, faith, night, rose, sky, sun, wind, world,
Form:
Free verse
Curse of Caste
I
They came on bullock-carts
loaded with gods
Indra
...
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Categories:
brahmin, birth, class, race, racism, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Mahabodhi Temple Protest
buddha the light of asia
the beacon of peace
revered around the world
confined by some radicals
in his own enlighten abode
shackled in superstitious principals
he broke away from
preaching against blind faith
encouraging open mind
to question all and everything
not even sparing...
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Categories:
brahmin, emotions, forgiveness, grief, humanity, peace, religion, religious,
Form:
Ballad
Mirza Ghalib English Translations 5
MIRZA GHALIB ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
Urdu poems about life, death, Love, longing, hearts, being captive, strength, cruelty, temper, the sun, darkness, shadows and faith.
I’m the captive of Love, the Huntress,
otherwise I’d have strength to flee.
—Mirza Ghalib,...
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Categories:
brahmin, dark, death, life, longing, love, strength, urdu,
Form:
Free verse
Journey on for the Moment
if I could describe your soul it would be
clear mirror shattering forevermore
where pieces are jigsaw puzzles
not fitting, falling under oak table
stuck on persian carpet existing
upside down on...
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Categories:
brahmin, allusion, change, character, destiny, endurance, extended metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Krishna's Advice To Arjuna - Part Two
II
for Thodti trailing barefeet his dried coconut-stick broom on cracked macadam
in the gutter festering oozing fresh month-old drying turds urine remains of fed-up banana-leaves skins withered jasmine garlands drained motor-oil from scooter-taxis overfed flies lean...
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Categories:
brahmin, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Akbar, the Great 1542 - 1605
Can a man – all alone - foist a god upon his fellows
Even if it’s only himself
And they his subjects
G.. is Akbar!
Does the muezzin from the minaret of Qoutoub-Minar
look up or
down to the illiterate savant...
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Categories:
brahmin, adventure, , atheist,
Form:
Free verse
My Penchant
To 32
What a way to appear on screen
With cascadic hair open umpteen
Wishing me on the festival of lights
Giving me extreme delights
Oozing with passion from looks I say
Glittering with fervour come what may
As name means the...
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Categories:
brahmin, angel, appreciation, art,
Form:
Couplet
Time Traveler
(Onam is Kerala’s state festival based on the belief of the annual visit of Mahabali, the legendary king of the land, now an occupant of the netherworld.)
I am Mahabali, the king who ruled the land...
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Categories:
brahmin, betrayal, celebrity, jealousy, visionary,
Form:
Narrative
Master Valluvan, the Long-Misunderstood Tamil Mentor - Part Two
Part Two
...
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Categories:
brahmin, on writing and words,
Form:
Free verse
Trip To Madras
Stepping down from the AC coach
on to the railway platform
A hot wave of salty moist air
drenches me
On my customary visit
to this city I'm tethered to
by my memories..
She coyly calls herself Chennai
like a new bride...
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Categories:
brahmin, childhood, city, memory, nostalgia, poetry, tamil,
Form:
Free verse
Lockdown- 15th Day
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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Categories:
brahmin, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse