Long Ragas 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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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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The Beauty of Charkha the Spinning Wheel  2

The Poem is dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi and his Charkha


Cotton has always won the hearts 
Of every men and women 
In every age
Whether it was the time...

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To what profound penance owe you this boon, O! Yashotha! Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subbha Iyer’s enna thavam seithanai – yashOthA by T. Wignesan

To what profound penance owe you this boon, O! YashOthA! ®

That He...

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Vasava – An untold story                              ...

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A Poem as a Tribute on Mothers  Day Part 1

In the broad day light of one May afternoon,
When the heat of Sun was scorching and unbearable,
to move outside our dwellings, and 
The atmosphere was...

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Vasava 
An untold Story ………                              ...

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Thank you for the culture so rich and colourful 
The silk woven fabric, tribal clothes, so wonderful

Thank you for the rice, chapati's, and street food spicy hot
It touched me the poverty though
Which showed me to...

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Gliding gracefully, “G” came into my life.
Tall, lean, studious, specky guy.
His attitude was just too high!
He would never look eye to eye.
In a few months, we were cutie pies.
He told me, “He likes me, though...

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In a room bubbling exuberance
and a gaiety crowd dancing to beats
we sit across each other ten feet apart,
his whispering pulses become audacious
every second approaching my heart
and I shiver as they unravel my layers,
intimate desires beneath...

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Somewhere between the Poseidon and Azure
Is his double shaded blue that always allures;
Between the lush and chrome, green hues
That glow in layers of velvet like necklace;
With rufous brown tail feathers and long neck
With strong twig...

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

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Brothers once, beneath the same monsoon sky,
Before foreign flags touched your soil,
You drank from the same rivers,
Laughed beneath the same banyan trees,
Shared gods, grain, and ground.

But when the map was sliced by hands not yours,
When...

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Oh, my dear honorable poet!
Words recess when I write about you
 For, they start loving you

You were a sincere lover,
   when you wrote about love;
You were a lovable mother,
    when...

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Villanelle : The Smell of Woman the Whiff of Chaste Nutmeg Cinnamon

The smell of woman the whiff of chaste nutmeg cinnamon
The lone mythic bird gone to sing in other dulcet climes
She bathes in cloistered mountain...

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Home
Songs
Love and nature
92

Period of composition (Bangla): Nineteenth Vadra, 1346 
Period of composition (After Christ) September 5, 1939
Place of composition: Shantiniketan


Again and again, looking back to thee, once more,
Days and nights these foamy churns awakened, in...

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Silent strings, once vibrant song, 
Melodies hushed, where echoes belong. 
A master's touch, forever stilled, 
Rajeev Taranath's legacy is forever chilled. 

Dancing fingers, now lie at rest, 
Ragas unplayed, a silent test. 
The wisdom passed,...

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Big Bang’s unfaded sound echoes in the universal core 
In eternity the divine light transformed into matter
Material entities remember the hymn of yore
Resonating with the melody of the creator.

Everything born embeds the waves of primal...

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The Big Bang sound resides in the universal core
Boundless light in no time transformed into matter
Material particles still remember the notes of yore
Pulsate in resonance with the melody of the creator.

Everything born embodies wave of...

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Abstract Waves rise in the sea of Venus's beauty
Albatross flies touching the western horizon's chest
Amorous breeze flows over the pink chin of the sky
I sow the seed and care for the rose inside my heart

The...

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(TWENTYNET  - 60s)

LOSS   OF   INNOCENCE




Fab four
Psychedelic colors
LSD powered yellow submarine
Ragas and flower children
Great Society
Female Liberation
Black Power
San Francisco
State of innocence  - Garden of Eden
Shake off shackles of this earth
Space race
Gagarin...

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A hospitable host for the poets all over

Decorated with the festoons of poems 

Disseminating the aroma of knowledge

With eye-feasting and insightful portraits 

Serene and sweet music of audio clippings 

Ragas of divergent genres with positive...

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