Long Vedic Poems

Written 12 December 2023         
Transmutation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker

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                             Brahman Nemesis

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Brownian motion writ large...
within small medium 
as light brainstorm doth 
hail forth the following poem.

Across the realm of gray matter
slowly percolating within tissue
composed of neuronal, glial 
and endothelial cells, and although 
there must be biological...

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"a long walk to reach my destination. 
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The story behind this poem
The curiosity of many of my readers (many of them women) was excited in my previous poem ‘Passion in Black and White’ POTD 6 March. They wanted to know more about...

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Moksha Karak 

So what is the individual result of Bavgt Venus. 
Is it fruit of thought from the sun?
Ascendant Ketu is the Vedic text that will provide the different outcomes.
As the positions of the planets...

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Born after freedom; I witnessed 
The 25th year Independence Day celebration
The Silver Jubilee; the country was underdeveloped,
Yet there was jubilation, happiness all over

Years went by: I grew bigger
I witnessed the 50th too:The Golden Jubilee
The country...

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Born after freedom; I witnessed 
The 25th year Independence Day celebration
The Silver Jubilee; the country was underdeveloped,
Yet there was jubilation, happiness all over

Years went by: I grew bigger
I witnessed the 50th too:The Golden Jubilee
The country...

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Vasava – 
An untold story                              ...

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                   I

They came on bullock-carts
loaded with gods
   Indra
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Life was not a bed of roses for many women
             who, for time eternal,
             left footprints and paved our path, so we can walk...

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Show them that a fair deal is still one to be honoured in your shores
             no one will take more than what is...

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II

for Thodti trailing barefeet his dried coconut-stick broom on cracked macadam
in the gutter festering oozing fresh month-old drying turds urine remains of fed-up banana-leaves skins withered jasmine garlands drained motor-oil from scooter-taxis overfed flies lean...

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Part One

“Apart from its popular conception of transmigration, (which is) sometimes almost humouristic, Manimekhalai offers a documentary contribution of immense value, under an easily accessible form, on the philosophical speculations of Ancient India.
The cosmology of...

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The backbone of the poem
Touching
Boil the chest
It was raining and it was raining
The flowers grow
I learned the meaning of summer.

So, hope
With the smile of life
To see the world
Two eyes are open
She would get up and...

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I was like a fallen autumn leaf,
Withering beneath the banyan tree's boughs,
I know you might have forgotten.

The first day of Allahabad,
Now known as Prayagraj,
It marked my first hunger strike,
Within the university campus,
And my trembling hands...

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BEING  BROWN

my color does not rub off
on any one, said the brown
to the white, nor does it pale
on being exposed to you 
we could share the same spa, 
the water will not change color

don’t...

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The wise say: live in now’s benign presence,
In time to come nor in one duly dead, 
Buried in graves past stays so ever hence,
And dreams dreamt seldom change from grey to red.
We take greige fibre...

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*What Gods there were
I did not know then,
And was not concerned with them.
But I do know now,
HE can come to us in any form.

Attacked by the dragon, Cancer,
Threatening to take away
My one talent to speak.
I...

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Be like arundathi-vashista;
          Single soul adhering two bodies;
  An ideal couple, epitome of the marriage life;
   Travel together in the troubles and strifes;
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the match stick
Well if you are an Indian by birth, yes you guessed him,
Saint though by birth, he let any issue just burn to ashes,
Dear friends, do not worry he is not an antagonist nor...

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GLISTENING GOKARNA

This scenic beauty, a grand temple town
Seated in the Arabian Sea like a golden crown
Bedecked on its bosom the blue beaches festoon 
To name a few- Kudle, Paradise,Om and Half moon 


Plays host to...

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"Soul to The Letters of Love"



Dropped into a body
the vessel is a skeleton key
where waits the other being
holding 3 
in its own mind and hands
the Sanskrit Blueprint Plan
the lesson is in the wanting 
ripe red...

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Lips combine
To say,“Amma”, the Mother Divine.
Amma – the sweetest word the first alphabet can provide
And the tongue safely rests inside!
Amma
Is sweet ambrosia.
O! she sees!
And my sorrows cease.
Her face
Reveals the divinest grace.
Her touches rinse
All my brutal...

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At the confluence stands the sage
Directing traffic of divine centuries,
Gluons, microns, universes and the laughter bird

The laughter bird is afloat, his wings
Drip cold and soothing fractals
Morphed out of innocent play
And the desire for play
Small, large,...

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