Long Cormorants Poems

"The Pages"

Missing all those years
like a page you could turn, 
a book you could throw casually aside, 
to be eternally forgotten in electric shady libraries;
at some point you turned around, 
and remembered, what you long...

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“Her Ever Changing Moods, the Rapture Reprising”

Lavender seduces symmetry  
in her ever changing moods
slips into something more comfortable

a swollen tangerine sky 
moves its tongue over 
the blues of her violet harbour 

calling the siren...

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Showering white light illuminates 
  Bright-Moon Bay;
   In the overlooking Moon-Inviting Pavilion,
 Li Bai had raised his twinkling, rich amber
Coloured wineglass
    To invite the same reticent Moon.  ...

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I live in Arrubluc by the sea
much like the fabled Llareggub
made famous by Dylan Thomas
in the radio play 'Under Milk Wood'.
The land meets the sea here as well,
but it's a beachside town, beside the sea,
not...

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Show me a place where I can be in a little island far above the sea where the skies touch the hills and transmit a message to my window sill. Show me a place where...

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So you're stuck on 15-down for the name of a barren of mules!
Groups of creatures...

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1	
the goose is putting signature
on the plume detaching from its tail

the queue is overflowed with crowd

groping in the memory of the gathering people 
so many safety pins and cello-tapes
are found  

on the shoulders of...

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Boated through the tantalizing Kerala backwater
                      in a pleasant summer morning;
   ...

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The foliage unruffled, 		 the tree trunks utterly baffled
                          ...

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On the bay the wind is scurrying
along its flock of waves,
with white crests honey combed, 
to flip over their edges,
on blue foreheads.

The bow of the yacht slices 
through the waves driven by the wind
in the...

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What is it why 
So morbid 
New war, Corvid 
Who is this new alien 
And is it from this world
Is he it totally  from sin nature
Is it he man made scientifical spiritual political 
Or...

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Deaf lip readers
did you just listen to
another little White House lie
E coli
be bad, ghetto trickle down disease news:
empty purse ... blank bounced check
Pursed lips deleterious — 
It’s the economy, stupid!
Happy Days for the hapless homeless
be...

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As a rainbow of the sunset descends
   and the balmy breeze washes over sand
   that tickles between toes and carefree hand,
I’m in the company of valued friends.
The deceptive calm of darkening...

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I've almost forgotten it.
It got too big -
holes appeared,
entire towns fell through
my memory.

The Forbidden City
is a convoluted red and gold ribbon,
my mind cannot now untangle.
Images float off the ink
of curling maps.
Snapshots flutter
like flags in a...

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I've almost forgotten it.
It got too big -
holes appeared,
entire towns fell through them.

The Forbidden City
is a convoluted red and gold ribbon
my mind cannot now untangle.
Images float off the ink
of curling maps.
Snapshots flutter
like flags in a...

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Would you care to partake in some breakfast cheese,
and what of bread, butter and tea? 
Lords and ladies gorge themselves 
Perhaps another meal at ten or twelve

Feasts of many with food of plenty, 
and a...

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You free me
with this jettison wake
on the back of the boat
while the motor is brooding
too loud to engage in the tannic specifics
or to single the brunt of our salt conversation
Cormorants wish us the best on...

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How the wind plays
across the water
in changing patterns,
its skittish mood drawn
in ripples and rivulets 
of sparkle under
a morning sun.

The small boats fidgety 
at their moorings
as if roused by longings 
of freedom,
cormorants riding 
the unrest on...

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Far away in the distance I see a light and suddenly 
I want to follow 
those inkling stars of beauty,  in the gallow of my wishes 
I hear a little voice inside that says,...

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under the boughs of her personal tree
she counts her wishes,one two three
theleaves fall down so she cannot see
  she falls asleep for a thousand years
the world revolves around her fears
she knows it all but...

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Once upon a time
My lady called 
I stood mesmerized 
At ocean’s cusp

Glinting, glimmering, gleaming
Thousands of sparklers 
Dot her sequined dress 
Shouting
Look at me!
Look at me!

Breathless ripples strew pebbles at shores edge
Cormorants perch on hips of slate
Eyes of diamond reflect...

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I could not paint a better picture,
Than the one in front of me,
Of twists and turns of the canal,
Bordered by endless trees.

A warm day with a slight breeze,
Giving the grass moving shadows of leaves,
Multiple species...

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'Tis still beneath a cloudy sky
where the river’s flowing gently by,
Red Gums live an artists dream,
dead brothers… lifeless in the stream.

Reed beds brown along the bank
have winters chill now here to thank,
as does the willows,...

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The morning seemed unreal,
too perfect in a way -
the waking river
where small boats ignited
like candles on being lit
by first light and where
a cormorant dived
into a blazing sun.

And here, where
a certain magic began
to find its way...

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Evening Dream

          Dr Ranjit Dutta


With your ardour 
In that green valley 
You raised your hand
To the evening sky,
I remember too.
Looking two glazing stars of 
That silvery...

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