Long Cloudbursts Poems

 POTD 25 Nov 2020

Manage your Stress … a peeling faded poster boldly declares 
I do get it about advertising campaigns. 
Enough to know that,
‘strategically placed ads’ catching the eye, is huge. 
But this poster...

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Himalayan  Trip-Trap

They poured in,  before the deluge
To surpass the natives in numbers
folks in their  cribs -through-hearse  stages, 
trusting like kids,  a burnished sky,  blue-white, 
a cocktail of the wrong...

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POTD - 25th September 2024

Synopsis - 

A bitter-sweet, hauntingly romantic and heart-wrenching ballad that follows her journey of sorrow and longing, as she searches for answers to a love torn apart. Watch as the story...

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Your feathered words arrive tickling my ears
The tip of your nose brushes
The back of my neck
My skin awakens

I have been calling you
Calling you back into my consciousness
My heart 
My soul

Speak to me.... let me hear...

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         I

  first flowers open, seasons begin ! : 
  bloom before doom 
  as always

Rajasthani breeze sweet and scentful 
fanning out to the...

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They ate the carcasses of worms, drunk the blood
Of ants, pests and rodents;
So did this people who dwelt in these anthills.
Till their ailing bodies wreaked, smothered with
Pain and unrest.

They crawled upon the ancient footpaths 
That...

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Last year my garden 

                              ...

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cloudbursts & mini-monsoons
take to the wind---swirling,
spinning round, curling &
surging against the trees,
against the sides of buildings--- 
swishing across the asphalt &
pitter-pattering on the roofs,
shedding cool where hot had been,
washing away the evidence of
an annoying sunny...

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GALACTIC DOSES

Galactic churning of euphoria
Dissolved infinite gallons of hysteria
Arose glorious mountains in all direction
Robust with faith and resurrection

Galactic storms and bolts that blow apart
The mighty ego and hate from every heart
Bloomed seamless beds of lovely...

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She slow- slips feet in poems

Tears trickle from sky- high eyes
down earth's cheeks to find the stream

I love your long water veils
abseiling splashed self down, 
streaming gently life's sheer sails

Father shows me a true source-...

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A rainy afternoon
==================

I Woke up from the afternoon nap ,
 upset by the rumbling sounds of thunderbolts,
The turbulent wind was  striking at  the  window panes with big jolts. 

The lightening flashed as...

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8-16 Lines of Fall Splendor – 9-12-23
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Storms of Fall Splendor

Whirlwinds of splendor jitterbug in back streets,
Autumn’s song breathes in a blizzard of umber,
Downpours of vermillion create flushed retreats
Crimson cloudbursts, impetuous as thunder.

Tempests magenta scuttle on...

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Autumn, wrap me in the fabric of uncoated leaves
just for this unequaled waning eve
as  orchids rest beneath viscous cloudbursts:
I feel distanced from the elements of earth
while stars blink dimly     my...

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A blinding flash across the sky,
   As thunder follows,one by one
   Dark fenzied cloudbursts quickly cry
.
   Cool winds that started with a sigh,
   Now shriek and howl,...

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Choking, churning dense river of clouds.	
Vengeful, raging, wrathful airspace,
where seraphs and cherubs are murdered,
where cold torrential demons are unleashed.

Dank deep noons and nights interbreed,
incestuous and quailing, unholy waters
wailing, exploding, spilling specters,
erasing, defacing, disgracing all that...

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Snowy white owl, tell me a secret
Should I dwell on the past or should I just leave it
Depth and expression of feelings so strong
Is it a strength or could it be wrong
Longing, yearning, depth of...

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Where are the rains over field and meadow,
  on plain and high country for so long quelled?
To dampen cracked earth, to make all things grow
  till the crops are in and the herds...

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Stargazing cigarette ash, growing cold and greyer, 
shaping to a scale model Everest 
in a cut crystal tray; 
a mountain to be climbed by some quantity surveyor, 
or a podium of passiveness 
in cloudbursts of...

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And We Call It……

Sprinkles, drizzles,
Mists and downpours;
Torrents, cloudbursts
Liquid sunshine;
Showers, deluge,
Mists and squalls,
Gully washers -
Thunder showers.

Pelting, pounding,
Soaking, drenching;
Dancing, pouring
Cats and dogs;
Bursting, drifting
Floating, falling,
Coming down
In buckets.

Comes in summer
Rides on thunder,
Comes in autumn
Twirls on whirlwinds;
Comes in winter
Plays with...

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days of rain

charcoal black skies churn
 endless days of pouring rain ~
  puddle reflections

thunder showers roar
 torrential pounding rhythms beat ~
  pearls drip from bare twigs

showers from cloudbursts
 in crystal liquid sunshine ~
...

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LOST SOUVENIRS


Your distant gaze flits, nearly bare
Like a mist that smothers the road
Windblown by chill; here, everywhere
A  promise ending as breaths explode 

My heart trickles as dew submits
To a quivering that grieves,
For our tattered...

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with punishing fury
   yesternight
the skies wreaked their havoc
   a rat-a-tat-tat of hail bullets
midst wave upon wave of rain
   drenching the earth

this morn winds whipped
   and whistled
cross bleak...

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In a drizzle, droplets drip;
Hair will frizzle, make-up slip.
Streets will glisten, raincoats bead;
Wipers work the lowest speed.

Rain that’s steady slashes down;
Puddles plash and insects drown.
Folks’ umbrellas bump and clash;
Headlights blind you, bold and brash.

Pouring cloudbursts...

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