Long Raga Poems

 

The Untold story of a Sitar Part 3 Concluded

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A soothing musical note
Was coming out and floating 
In the air 
In that White coated 
Old auditorium  
Of a different era
Which was so alive before...

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Vasava – An untold story                              ...

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Khatia Buniatishvili's Tour de Force of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto N° 1 in B-flat minor on Zubin Mehta's 80th Birthday*

… the caged-beast terrified defying the donderbus blasts vollies of muskets and cannons heralding the charge cavernous...

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Woke up this morning missing the country way of living,
This city life is just breaking down my stride,
I’m yearning for the rolling rocky mountain highs,
And the deep lush valleys startled by ancient pines!
Sky scraper towers...

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The mirtangist may never willingly hear
may not want to hear
the multaiyam announcing his cue
nor the melodist aware of the flautist's right
to the change in the raga
the plucking of the yal strings
to the goatskin drummed bleats
and...

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Vasava – An untold story                              ...

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In the first grey light of dawn, a young woman begins the morning song.
The simple cadences of her song are as tranquil and liquid as the monsoon rain, 
Trickling down the broad leaves in her...

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The first zenith, heartbeat

The very first school day, the very first slang
The very first vacation, a journey from the train station
The very first playground, by the lake with the very first ball
The quotient cent with...

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Love in my life, flashes like a comet.
Still, memorable moments of forelsket.                      
I call...

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Watched a slick, oily storm cloud spread a stain ‘cross the sky
In a silence so quiet, you could hear Jesus cry.
Drank a bottle of wishes from a bottomless glass.
Sometimes the most you earn on Monday...

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BETROTHAL was sure you'd come
Waiting on the steps
Saw a hawk circling
Across blue sky.
My hair glittered in twilight
Slippery steps , algae invading
Eyelashes flickered in kajal.
My face glowed in the bronze mirror.

Weave yet another cool breeze
On my...

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Where Carnatic's notes on temple walls reside,
A melody awakens, draped in Kalanidhi's pride.
T.M. Krishna, a voice that cuts through time,
Weaving music's magic with a spirit so sublime.

His renditions, rivers rich with history's flow,
Not just in...

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Monsoon rains 
Bring festivity, each year
Yet I eagerly wait, to get wet
In the first showers, each year.

The peacock of my heart 
Dances round ‘n round, 
On the exhilarating tunes of ‘Megh Malhar’
Expressing its unbounded joy.

The...

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Hiding in the trench in the French sand,
Indian Singh fights like a British soldier.
It seems it is the ending of the universe.
Dark curls of smoke rise up - cradles are 
shattered, and buildings collapsed. Roar
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Susan,
Just wanted to say hi
I wanted to stop by the other day,
But it hurts
	Susan,
You didn't have to go
You could have stayed with me
Could have tried agent
	Susan,
Just wanted to say hi
Drove to your mothers house
Parked on...

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In slate horizon still like a slab of rock
charcoal clouds crept from its crumpled edge,
summer storm rushed with the southern wind,
carrying the cascade of melted splintered sky.

The enticing concert of the whistling wind
and the symphony...

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It's the Love, It's the feeling, deeply echoing from my heart!! 


O'my sweet little Hazel,
Your deep naughty smile while dreaming,
Laughing damn with pretty open eyes,
Your tiny little feet cycling around,
Are making me insane!!

Gaping a deep...

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Bringing fruit of sun,
in the dish of the sky.
Making birds sing,
god never shy. 

Morning raga is sung by every priest,
all feeling fresh, men or beast.
Bells ringing in church, 
the truth which monk search. 

Bird’s noise...

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Snapshots



Sitting by calm riverside, adjusting the aperture,
As mind attests the perfect landscape to capture;

Taking few small leaps, not to leave a nuance,
He is fast ready to click a string in temerity;

Be it anything, a marrow...

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