Long Kerala Poems

 A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
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A common confrontation between
Man and animals
From the wild, are pigs roaming farm lands
Destroying the crops

Of pöor farmers, it’s indeed a
Problem in Indian states
With forest borders, acute in her
Many smaller states.

In larger states where lands are...

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Far from the surging crowd,the aesthetic mass ever loved
For,some fascinated to drilling mud,more satiated with coconut ground
Most elated admiring flowering buds,all hailed for herbs, spices,Salmon or squid
But there came the most tyrannous deluge with a...

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“ the problem with Equality is that we desire it only with our superiors”


“Equal were all and happy they all were,
Deceits and falsehoods were unheard of there,
Free from all illness, cares and infant deaths
No one...

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Transitions and Contrasts: Just like the Seasons
Scorching, sweltering, drying, draining
The Candle of the Sky, now a supernova
Chirping birds cry out for drops of draught,
The strays of streets too, dying or suffering.
The poor farmer’s heart, broken,
Like...

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Guarded by towering hills on the East 
And flanked by the Arabian Sea on the West
With its easterly shore of stretching sandy swell 
That lulls the restless waves to sleep, 
There is a land, my...

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Delhi seems  closer than it was last time. 
After a tea with GST, 
on to a backstreet  of Varanasi, 

Untouched by authority; 
ignored more by memory 
than darkened by amnesia.  

A huge...

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A SPIRITUAL SAINT'S STRENGTH AMIDST STRIFE 

Fortitude for half a century, giving God all the glory,
The Foundress of Holy Family lived a humble, godly life,
St. Mariam Thresia - a stigmatic saint's story
Filled with many troubles,...

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Boated through the tantalizing Kerala backwater
                      in a pleasant summer morning;
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Their satchels (twenty five) within auto-rickshaw seats dumped,
Same number (small and big; fat and lean; boys and girls) tight-clumped;
Some hanging; some stamping; some hitting and kicking each one;
The driver, gliding as though great battle won...

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Life lays mines of challenge on his way,
but Karithandan is a tough warrior.

An English engineer whirls in the current
of confusion at the foot of the mountain.
Enchanted by the white smile,
Karithandan climbs down slowly.

The tribal hero...

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Which is the easiest way to make two
Indian states to fight?
One is to throw power, language, water-
Issues on their face.

So you’ll have got two Dravid states
Fighting eternally,
O’er slight and petite things for decades
Meaningless, mundane,

So that...

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Reminders of Venice, mnemonic of undying love of Romeo and Juliet,
Were masks a barrier for two lovers, when encountered each other? 
Elaborate masks concealed the identities, 
Without hindrance, love bloomed no matter. 

Masks are mysterious, masks are enigmatic, masks were fashion. 
Imagine...

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By : Sashi.Prabhu(zeauoxian)
Written on 15/4/2012 at Kaloor , kerala


Within you I lose myself full of ecstasy and free of earthly pains,
Without you I find myself wanting to become lost again.

How I wish to be always...

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This poem is dedicated to all my friends,
The loyal pals who came up to me with royal relationships
who encouraged me always in my performances,songs,dramas,poems and speeches.
And particularly my schoolmates of Sentia and Silver Oaks.

Maharashtra to...

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His brain’s barren like
the surface 
              of the moon – alphabet 
could never
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“Kerala Man Hides Lover For 11 Years, In His Home While Living With Parents”


How dare you, hypocrites, poeticizing true love,
And, damn, dare to hate me for choosing my love mate!
How sweetly you speak of splendid...

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You were 
neither a destroyer
nor a preserver 
like Shelley’s west wind.
You were
a native signal
to harvest the taro and tapioca.
You were
a swing for the shore, 
and my soul too.

You weren’t 
just a parching wind
for me.
My still...

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I am ... I am the land of Ashoka the Great, of Kwaja E Hind, 
Sachin's Sixer, of Sania’s Stoke,  of Aryabhata & Abdul Kalam,
Tan sen and AR Rahmans,Lata Mangheshakar & Mohammed Rafi,
of Chanakya...

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Performers painted like tigers and hunters dance to drumbeats 
on the fourth day of Onam, an annual harvest festival of Kerala.

Dancing Tiger

Many farms have been buried,
yet the harvest fest is dazzling.

He’s one among the hundreds...

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I am a huge tree, originating from the soils of God's Own Country,
Made by my land's children,
But now, the God is testing me on my inventions, through rains and winds,
The soil is slipping past my...

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No land or sea would ever be so vast

To prevent us, my dear brother, my caring sister,

From building the blessed by heavens bridge of peace and love 

That humanity for centuries now yearns to construct...

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May stretched its legs into grave.
The thunder heralds the rains.
A hut on the bank of Kanoli canal
Is not re-thatched this year.
Her infant’s illness made the doctor gay
With all the wages she had kept.
Summer takes the...

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oh wondrous pepper!
born in Kerala, South India &
said to be “the king of spices”--- 
that which goes with practically any food,
that which does all that it can to bring excitement to the tongue---
spawned from the...

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Black beauties in chains-
Before the ticket counters,
A long queue does creep
To scatter near the black wonders.

Ears and tails always move,
Ruminating the rhythms of forest.
Elephants are inside the fort,
Exposed to the sky barest.

I hear the hushed...

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