Short Banyan Poems

my childhood
banyan tree stands
grand father

02.05.2018...

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under the banyan
the beggar dreams and finds him ---
king in a palace
...

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http://getbooksreviewed.blogspot.in/2012/11/book-review-not-under-banyan-tree.html...

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banyan tree
                            forgot about its roots
                            joint family...

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Listen to poem:

long hanging strands of
monarch butterflies on roots
of the banyan tree


Date: 08/26/2019...

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Banyan seed falls in a deep dark well
Sap drips from giant banyan root


By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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Yes I would be a giraffe if I could.
Walking proudly on an African plain
Eating leaves from the highest banyan tree
Flipping my idiotic looking tail...

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The  poor man turned away
from the gate of the temple
where people thronged to offer prayers

Yet he prostrated
before  a  small temple
at the foot of an  old banyan tree....

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Axes
Perpetually strive
Chopping off...
Banyan trees
Perennially spread
Aerial roots...


17 December 2021 
Bite Size Poem #30 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier...

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Immersed in his thoughts -
how to give it a shape - dreams,
Bonsai gardener ;
If I could place a banyan
over my heart - to take rest
 
(C) Anindya Mohan Tagore (Bobby)
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Be beyond name
Name that hurls game
Game beyond fame


Be your own par
Par that goes far
Far as a star


Bloom in fond boom
Boom fills all rooms
Rooms beauty grooms



Leon Enriquez
04 October 2014
Singapore...

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not the banyan trees
dried twigs hold the dragonflies
often carefully

few fallen feathers
form firm foundations for Finch's
fantastic furrow

a leaf on waters
becomes great lifebuoy
for a drowning ant


17 August 2021...

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Your eyes are so calm
like the shade of a Banyan tree on a midsummer day.
I feel soothed by looking at you,
but my thousands of words are less to portray.
From your eyes, I can't move my gaze.
I love to lose my way into your eye's maze....

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It sat perched on a Banyan tall
That stood beside a pond, 
Which grasped the tree with fingers long
And held the skies beyond; 

It dived not in the shallow pool
Nor did it fly away, 
It withered slowly on the bough
Upon an autumn's day.
         ***********...

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Waiting for that moment,
That will probably never come,
Sitting on branches of uncertainty,
Under the Banyan.
Letting the spirits run lose,
And conquer my soul.
Lost without any form of love left,
in these veins, 
Short of one single inhale,
Gone, in the wind....

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The Banyan Tree

The banyan tree stands tall,
come rain or mighty squall,
it rests, serene,
but never unseen,
its branches guarding us all.

BITE SIZE POEM no29 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Date: 6th December 2021...

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A spotted leopard in a banyan tree,
Kept his yellow carnivore-ic eyes on me.
I knew better than to move fast or try to flee.
Big cats love a chase like Simon Legree.
His eyes narrowed, but I refused to see.
How fast that cat was chasing after me.
If I can just get to that tall tall…....

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Swallows return bringing summer 
Heat waves ruffle the spring air
Banyan tree’s scorched shadow simmers
As soil cracks in sunshine flare.

Night falls with ashes of burnt sky
With cool touch southern wind blows
Stars twinkle summer melody
Lifts up my parched mind morose.

May 7, 2019...

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Waves washed in wind
Sulfer swirled till cold with rain.

Flowers bloomed in ashes
where lava dance to cool.

My love grew in tides
Love of my king and queen.

Banyan holds sulfer in tides
Branches blends kayak in dreams .

Left alone as promise child
Dead call names stalk of sugar cane....

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rocks watching the moon rise
over the banyan grove
in the shadows 
the monkeys fornicate
ears and eyes recording
this singularly unique but ordinary evening
the glowing moon never moves an iota
while it is being watched
the jumping pike
makes a triumphal splash
all motion moves in invisible chains...

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There is a huge and old 
Banyan tree in front of 
The temple in my village 
Sitting beneath it 
At every morning is 
My habit now 
But the devotees of the temple 
Visit me too 
As they think I am a GOD 
They offer me many things 
In fact I am unemployed 
And decided to consume them 
Just for a living. 




spirituality is very easy to sell...

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My supreme lord
If ever wish you gift me
With a next birth
Never as a human again
Bless me then as a Banyan Tree
Giving shadow and shelter for many
Many lovers may meet and talk
Beneath me
Many kids may gather and play
Beneath me
I can feel and realize then
The true meaning of love
I can feel and realize then
The true meaning of affection ....

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Like a Banyan Tree, 
my roots (seeking rebirth),
from eldest, outstretched limbs, descend
to a heartening earth.

Like a Banyan Tree
on hilltop with grand stance,
love from embossed gold earth and sky,
shall help my soul's expanse.

Spirit rustles arches
of my highest leaves.
Life flows through my core,
my dawns, my days, my eves.


6/21/15...

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once I saw a girl
beneath the shadow of Banyan tree, Ramna Park;
I fell in love with her;
I couldn't tolerate her out of my sight

once I felt
I sucked her,
drank her blooming honey
and I biologically gratified myself;

once I gave her freedom to her abysmal gloomy path

Now I understand; it was lust, not my love 




-Monday, June 17, 2019 Chattogram...

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HUGS

The day after the Tsunami hugged the shores,
by a penitent ocean lying low,
in the beach  which lay mauled and scarred,
an old woman and a girl stood homeless and hugging 
and not far away
a  bower lay  crumpled, within which
but stood tall as always  the two-some  
of a neem and a banyan in an unshakeable hug.

S.Jagathsimhan Nair, 01 Jun 13
For SKAT’s contest...

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