Long Shankar Poems

Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
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"Skinwalker"


That one’s mind 
is like a scene from Chagall
dreams flow like blood bleeds
across the cortex page curtain call
an audience with the silent speakeasy 
cerebellum with its swift
matter-of-factness 
logically guides the fingers 
to dance across keys...

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Interview with The Dead Boy -Raymond Mizsak

So Raymond, do you know what happened to you? Why you died?

Yeah, I know what happened to me, man, 
but I don’t remember it happening, 
Cause I was in...

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Based on the famous linguist, poet Humayun Azad Sir's poem "SAB KICHU NOSHTODER ODHIKARE JABE". However, it is not an exact English translation from Bengali. Edited in different places with tense. Apologies for any mistake...

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I thought poetry is
-name of Mesopotamia which was the first civilization to emerge in human history
-ancient cave peoples surviving life struggle 

I thought poetry is
-an immortal love story of Yousuf- Zulekha, Shirin-Farhad, Laila-Majnu or Romeo-Juliet
-a...

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Sailor - A Hindi Poem in English

I am giving below a Hindi Poem of a great Indian Hindi writer Jai Shankar Prasad (30 January 1890 – 15 November 1937). I have translated this short Poem...

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O thou world’s tallest mount of might, 
Like a gawky adolescent,
Added hast thou to thy old height,
I bow to thy quickest ascent.

Thou, with thy siblings so many
In the abode of hoary snow,
At fifty million years...

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Hindi lines of the Verse given here in English
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Tp nahin kewal jeevan satya
Karun yah shanik deen avasaad
Taral aakaanshaa se bharaa
So rahaa aashaa kaa  aalhaad.01
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English version as translated by me
.
"Tenacity is not the only truth...

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Never gone away from the light,
Never seen the daunting sites,
Never clashed with horrible tides,
Never ceased down the rhythmic rides,
People would think,
What is all ?
It is nothing,
Just semi-rhythmic
tunes of life's hall.
Life is mystery of the circumstances,
People...

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Incineration of Love God Madan (Cupid) 24
Originally written in Hindi by my late father Dr. Amar Nath Kapoor
1899 to 1994. The work was written in Hindi somewhere around 1965-70.

Editing and English version by Ravindra K...

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Incineration of Love God Madan (Cupid) 21
Originally written in Hindi by my late father Dr. Amar Nath Kapoor
1899 to 1994. The work was written in Hindi somewhere around 1965-70.

Editing and English version by Ravindra K...

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Incineration of Love God Madan (Cupid) 23
Originally written in Hindi by my late father Dr. Amar Nath Kapoor
1899 to 1994. The work was written in Hindi somewhere around 1965-70.

Editing and English version by Ravindra K...

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I was thinking
after returning from duty,
will write a lovely poetry.

I just want to build a Tajmahal
on the chest of paper
with the words 
which were playing
hide and seek with me 
since last few days.

The words will...

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God in the form of a Man

 

The world was in the dark of ignorance

In the devil's hands it was a land of violence

Poverty played its role with it’s might

Then He decided to shower His...

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Never gone away from the light
Never seen the daunting sites
Never clashed with horrible tides
Never ceased down the rhythmic rides
People would think
What is all ?
It is nothing
Just semi-rhythmic
tunes of life's hall.
Life is mystery of the circumstances
People...

Read More