India and Pakistan: Divided by History, Bound by Blood
...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 ...
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Categories:
ragas, allusion, conflict, discrimination, family,
Form: Free verse
Thank You India
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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 thou...
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Categories:
ragas, i am,
Form: Rhyme
Again and again, looking back to thee, once more
...Home
Songs
Love and nature
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Period of composition (Bangla): Nineteenth Vadra, 1346
Period of composition (After Christ) September 5, 1939
Place of composition: Shantiniketan
Again and...
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Categories:
ragas, bird,
Form: Free verse
Elegy for a Maestro: Rajeev Taranath
...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,
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Categories:
ragas, celebrity, death, loss, music,
Form: Elegy
Poetry Soup - A New World
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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...
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Categories:
ragas, happy, world,
Form: Free verse
Waiting For You Mr
...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...
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Categories:
ragas, love,
Form: Free verse
Of Infinity
...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 cr...
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Categories:
ragas, music, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Peacock Dance
...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 rufou...
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Categories:
ragas, animal, appreciation, art, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Enticing Glance
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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 sh...
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Categories:
ragas, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
A Poem As a Tribute On Mothers Day Part 1
...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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Categories:
ragas, inspirational, mother, mothers day,
Form: Free verse
Ragas - Part2
...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 ...
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Categories:
ragas, 12th grade, appreciation, caregiving,
Form: Narrative
Ragas - Part 1
...Love in my life, flashes like a comet.
Still, memorable moments of forelsket.
I call it R.A.G.A.S…. cherished love tags!
I know, you are just too curious to hear those funny ...
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Categories:
ragas, 12th grade, boyfriend, break
Form: Narrative
Villanelle: the Smell of Woman the Whiff of Chaste Nutmeg Cinnamon
...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 ...
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Categories:
ragas, appreciation, devotion, first love,
Form: Villanelle
Music of the Cosmos
...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 ...
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Categories:
ragas, creation, music, universe,
Form: Rhyme
A Tribute To India's National Poet
...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 you wro...
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Categories:
ragas, appreciation, tribute,
Form: Free verse
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