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Shankar Poems - Poems about Shankar

Ode to the tallest mountain peak

...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,
A...
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Categories: shankar, eulogy, mountains,
Form: Ode

THE LINES OF THE LIFE

...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 se...
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Categories: shankar, 9th grade, blue, color,
Form: Free verse



THE LINES OF THE LIFE

...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-rhy...
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Categories: shankar, 1st grade, blue, color,
Form: Free verse

Skinwalker

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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 
cer...
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Categories: shankar, muse,
Form: Free verse

All Have Been Gone

...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. Ap...
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Categories: shankar, life, world,
Form: Free verse



Me and My Words

...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 l...
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Categories: shankar, feelings, poetry, words,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberInterview With the Dead Boy - Raymond Mizsak

...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...
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Categories: shankar, death, music,
Form: Free verse

Poetry Is Poetry

...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 o...
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Categories: shankar, feelings, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Three Verses From Hindi Kamayani In English

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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 ver...
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Categories: shankar, joy, life, nature,
Form: Free verse

O Sailor a Hindi Poem In English

...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 in English...
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Categories: shankar, romantic, , literature,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBeloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's Poem Asai Mugam By T Wignesan

...Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
                                                                                                By T. Wignesan

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Categories: shankar, religion, spiritual,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

For Ravi Shankar: This Is What It Was

...Raga. Sun shifts as fingers on
sitar.
Ravi Shankar is dead.
Old women in dark clothes 
make it down the road through
a tabla of sounding rain

We know not sometimes
what effects us until it
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Categories: shankar, nostalgia
Form: ABC

For Ravi Shankar: This Is What It Was

...Raga. Sun shifts as fingers on
sitar.
Ravi Shankar is dead.
Old women in dark clothes 
make it down the road through
a tabla of sounding rain

We know not sometimes
what effects us until it
...
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Categories: shankar, absence
Form: ABC

Incineration of Love God Madan Cupid 24

...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.

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Categories: shankar, inspirational, hindi, universe,
Form: Epic

Incineration of Love God Madan Cupid 23

...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.

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Categories: shankar, inspirational, god, fire, fire,
Form: Epic

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