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I can't swear that you will cry,
Everything is known, yet look, we both walk with a gentle smile.
I don't know what people are searching for, a Ram, a Rahim, and a Supreme Being.
What is this story of theirs that they consider true, clinging to it with their soul?
Even after death, they continue to connect their relationships with it.
Children are the destination, so progeny is the reckoning,
The taste of deeds, bonds, likes and dislikes is also unique.
Everyone has to travel the entire country.
Worry thought it would end on the pyre,
From there, another worry burned.
Say, "Ram's name is the truth," there is infinity in the words.
Therefore: They are ignorant of this game, where truth is in the name of Ram, and death is also in the name of Ram. All are Lakshman, the goal is salvation (Moksha), keep playing...
**RAMAYANA**
With love to all,
OM namah shivaya
OM Jagdish bajantri (mhabharamnad)
Categories:
ramayana, celebration,
Form: Classicism
Hard put as *****Sapiens to prove,
Far off left have we oh, home of love.
Lose virtue, watch in vain Sita’s woes,
Jatayu long dead, scarce can we move.
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Translation |05.09.2024| history, women, world
Poet’s note: This is second in the three-piece series on the theme. It depicts what happened in the epic Ramayana. When Sita was abducted by Ravana, Jatayu, the vulture king, challenged him and sacrificed his life. This epigram says we have lost Jatayu in us in this dark age. The original in Gujarati as transliterated (in PS-acceptable way) is as under:
Chalaayu chhej nahi, prem naa gharma javaayu chhej nahi,
Museebat ej chhe, dvaar thi paachhaa valayu chhej nahi,
Dharma ne khoyaa karo, door thi sita-haran joyaa karo,
Biju to thaaye shun, aapani andar Jatayu chhej nahi.
- Milind Gadhavee
Categories:
ramayana, history, women, world,
Form: Epigram
World has gotten far too awake,
Fancy gender issues to rake.
Sex, a matter of choice,
One follows inner voice,
As suits self choice, one bakes one’s cake.
A non-binary brick
Has broken old rubric—
One male-female that goes to make,
And woke, a brand new bloke,
Out, old order to choke,
Suffers deep slumber and can’t wake.
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Happenings |11.04.2024| Limerick, humour
Poet’s note: J K Rowling of Harry Potter faces a prospect of arrest in Scotland for having said: Many a transgender actually is man under the dress. But if Western World is so 'woke' as to suffer from chronic insomnia, India seems its Polar opposite, comparable to say Rip Van Winkle who slept for twenty years, or Kumbhakarna of Ramayana who used to sleep six months in a year. The last line of this ditty alludes to this fact.
Categories:
ramayana, humor,
Form: Limerick
They sure bear battles but no enmities,
At borders build brotherhood’s bonhomie,
Exchange smiles and burry adversity
That may arise from mutual miseries.
The wars are won by kings and their counties,
Soldiers only fight battles and lay life,
Their families suffer deep abject strife,
And forgotten once settles all the crease.
They that build bridges soon are forgotten,
Conquerors cross over, Ravan to hunt,
Victorious, Ram-Laxman feel triumphant,
And monkeys that made it miss all the fun!
They that know nor yet hate, each other kill,
Those that hate, scarce with scary battles deal.
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Sonnet |02.10.2023| war
Poet’s note: ‘Ravan to hunt’, the reference is to Ramayana, an epic poem of some thirty thousand quatrains called shlokas. Today’s world is full of conflicts. Whilst battles rage, who suffers? The common folks, the so-called couth and innocent of the society. This sonnet is born from this anguish.
Categories:
ramayana, irony, war,
Form: Sonnet
History
One day kirshna was out side and keep safty of her daughter during bath suddenly a ravana kind lover of afair with his daughter met with Krishna after some polite words ravana takes the head out of his body and when sarswati came from that period Ramayana started..
With love all
MRI Jagdish Bajantri ETD
Categories:
ramayana, 11th grade, birth, death,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
I
You have seen them tell ... of things Indian
In dark South Africa, in the 1960s, BOMBAY ...
MADRAS, and CALCUTTA were destinations
As great as LONDON! We didn't know NYC, or Paris
Yes, old cultures have stories, much to say ...
II
Listen to stories ... African desert or forest, veld
Or savannahs, they are LIFE and living history
India's EPICS and Gita we have known -
O the lore, the everyday wisdom, kings and beggars
Are stars, as much as the priest, the PUROHIT,
Beyond brahmin and nobles, trader, or low caste
The stories are education, the culture showcased
Yes, share stories (and your own). But listen
Listen to all stories, old and new, theirs and our's.
Categories:
ramayana, adventure, community, education, hope,
Form: Didactic
Vedic legends in centrifugal swirl,
whirling, twirling across this world,
in and out through many planes;
counter-active, gravitational things.
Vimanas high in nebulous skies,
legendary, ego-driven butterflies;
worlds are conquered, worlds undone,
according to ancient, mystic tongues.
Upanishads and Samar, Mahabharata, Ramayana;
even in the Samaranganasutradhara;
words have power, words have strength
and they will ride upon wavelengths.
Cast your dreams upon the skies,
upon Vimanas you may ride.
when the spirit embarks upon a quest,
it rides with incorporeal zest.
Categories:
ramayana, philosophy, poems, poetry, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
__O thou lowly hunter,
Let no glory may ever grace
Thee for endless years-- still later,
To have slain, and so merciless
A pair of swans in love embrace.
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Sanskrit:
ma nishada pratishtham tvam
agamah shashvatih samah |
yat krauncha mithunat ekam
avadhih kama-mohitam ||
Sage Valmiki was so moved when he saw a hunter’s arrow killing a pair of swans lost in love embrace that a shloka (verse) came up to his tongue as above. Enraged, he cursed the hunter. And this inspired him to write the epic Ramayana. He is considered as adi kavi, the first or the oldest known poet. Ramayana happened even before Mahabharata. ____________________________________
Happenings | 22.02.2019 |
Categories:
ramayana, poetry, poets,
Form: Quatrain
The peacocks dance
at grove near the cool pond;
and the lotuses brace
lamps like raised heads;
Nimbus clouds thrum
like loud drums;
and violet lilies scrutinize
the scene with bulbous eyes;
Hushed wavelets
array like curtains;
and the bees harmonize sweet songs,
like soothing tunes of (fish-shaped) harp;
Amidst this picturesque place,
the MARUDHAM is enthroned
*Marudham- The God of fertile land
The old Tamil literature describes the five species of lands,
kurunji-mountain land
marudam-cultivated land/farm land
mullai- forest land
neydal-beach/maritime tract
paalai- desert
This is my translation of a poem from Kamba Ramayanam
Kamba Ramayanam, is a Tamil epic that was written by the Tamil poet Kambar during the 12th century. Based on Valmiki's Ramayana (which is in Sanskrit), the story describes the life of King Rama.
Categories:
ramayana, nature,
Form: Free verse
Why the urge to gain equal rights by women,
Has become a topic of debate?
If she wants to be as free as a man,
Why a mess this movement create?
A woman during her period is barred from temples,
But a man, even a rapist get blessings in ample.
The case of Nirbhaya struck our heart’s core,
But could it counter the pain she bore?
Ramayana is a part of history,
If Ram asked Sita to walk over fire is a mystery.
But the present man is no less,
Urges a girl to undergo virginity test,to prove her innocence.
Can she demand the same?
No! It will be a matter of shame.
If he asks for it, that’s a matter of pride,
Because it’s his sole right to select his bride.
Is preference of a boy over a girl justified?
Are we ever going to make our mentality wide?
Feminism is required for a better future,
For human race to be considered cultured creatures.
Categories:
ramayana, fate, gender, identity,
Form: Blank verse
Ha, everyone wants to go to Heaven,
But you, me, no one wants to die for it,
You can't bet your life if it's there even,
It's a hearsay, you just read about it;
You live your life once then forever quit.
If you are so driven, level with me,
What would you trust and what do you decree--
Torah, Bible, Koran, Ramayana?
They are all true as I happen to see;
Heaven's here on earth, So is Nirvana!
~'Dezain Me' contest by Dr. Ram Mehta
Categories:
ramayana, heaven,
Form: Dizain
In the dining room
I see strange people
At my table
Always
Even if my cat is awake
My wife serves crab soup
my daughter does home work
my neighbor reads Ramayana
Sky is serene
no smoke not a ghost
no prehistoric emotions
Or paranormal scenes
At least there should not be
Any bad dreams
I am foolish they say
I must go to a psychiatrist
But I am scared of strangeness
the nowhere people bring
At my dinning table
Categories:
ramayana, psychological,
Form: Prose Poetry
RED SUN
( O BLESS US )
One who dispels misery,
Busts illusions, grants wishes,
Lifts away darkness, and is
Ever eternal ;
Sustainer of life, soft yet
Severe, tender yet tough, the
Ultimate Truth, world’s witness,
Sooryaya Namah:
Form: Dodoitsu (sylls: 7-7-7-5 )/Acrostic.
@ 20 jun 2013
For Anne Currin's 'Any poem'.
Notes:
1)“Sooryaya namah” is Sanskrit, has 5 syllables, and it means “Salutations to the Sun”.
2) The first letters of the above 8 lines put together in its order reads “ O BLESS US”
3) This is an abridged and rough rendering of the famous ‘Aditya Hridaya Mantra’( a prayer to the Sun God) from The Ramayana, India’s age-old epic. Chanting of this is supposed to free one from the three kinds of misfortunes of mankind, viz. 1) Soul-related( diseases, pain, hunger etc), 2) Physical surroundings-related ( robbers, beasts, terrorists etc ), 3) Divine in nature ( earthquakes, floods, droughts, hurricanes, Tsunamis etc)
Categories:
ramayana, sun,
Form: Dodoitsu