Short Lakshmi Poems

The roses attract everyone with it's unrivalled beauty and entrancing fragrance, it's strength so efficacious that even the thorns are accepted by all.


K.S.Lakshmi...

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I love those

Who wait at my window

With perspectives to share

And paint the last leaf glowing green

Upon the dying tree 

In the coldest winter.


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The lotus grows even in dirty waters, standing puissant with poise in such a manner that it's environs are obscured by the grandeur and confidence emanating from it.


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The twinkle in her eyes, her extended arms,
Her display of emotions in naive expressions,
The happiness of seeing her source, her lifeline,
"Mother!", the baby calls without words or sounds, 
And the mother hears. 


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I got new spectacles and it is pleasant,
The crystalline glasses shields my eyes from its rivals,
Its assets augment my sight,
Its wide frame broadens my vision of the environment,
And its reflecting skills hide my hopeless eyes.

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Society is a wonderful tailor,
It stitches my free wings with strings of thoughtless notions,
It stitches my parents' broad minds close with a prejudiced needle,
And makes a wonderful dress covered with gems of obnoxious superstitions.

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Stars............

Burning balls of gases,
Decorating the night sky,
Displaying the miraculous beauty in nature,
Wasting itself to be with the thousands of souls,
Who are alone in the world,
Giving them hope, in their darkest time.


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In this era of vicious technology,
Virtual existence and virtual relationships dominating people’s life,
In this phase of conversations through short-hand chats and electronic letters,
I saw him play, in the playground, with pebbles and sticks.


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I see a girl in the mirror
A thing of beauty unseen by all
She weaves poetry, and cooks sublime notions
Paints the sky green, the land blue
Twirls on cliffs, tiptoes along its edges
Drama, risks, thrills, that is her life
A thing of beauty unsung by all.


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The thing you have, .....ego,
That you have acquired a while ago,
In your success, your life's crescendo,
Fuelled by the thousands of cries of "Bravo!",
Mind you, if you still can't let this thing go,
I swear, my dear, I might not stop from being your foe!!


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Decorating homes and workplaces
Illuminating with diyas and rangoli for five days
Worship ceremonies of Lakshmi, goddess of properity
As mentioned in early Sanskrit texts
Light over darkness
Indian subcontinent origins

written November 4, 2021...

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I look at the gloomy night sky, my eyes going deeper into the layers of it's blackness, the darkness resembling my destiny, my future. As I get lost into it's tenebrous infinity and thinking how it could be compared with my life, I suddenly see............................



MOON!



K.S.Lakshmi...

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I see Her in the busy street
a glimpse, just the hem of Her light.
Once near death
I watched Her arriving our of a darkness.
In the park She bathes me with Her sunshine.
Lakshmi is not Her one name,
she has endless titles.
She named my tears, each one She named,
they glitter now, I see them at night
recreating Her beautiful face....

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On dappled hill I stand


Flowers at its command,



Trees blazing like Lakshmi star



With essence, breath in awe.



Fireflies rustling, aglow;



This paradise, near than far



Where  swan flits low



To prepare dawn’s tableau,



All these, locked in sweet memoir.



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Ballasi Stanza Contest
by nette onclaud...

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I am the firewood
Burning in the blazing fire,
Ablaze in passion, aflare in dreams,
Burning away till
The embers are left glowing
In vigour, with the slipping life
I possessed still
Driven by the burnt emotionality,
The fire left within me dancing
Through my veins,
Till the visions I had nurtured,
The hope I had discovered
Turned to dust.


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Stars shine in the night,
Moon becomes invisible in the daylight,
Fairy lights have it's magic displayed in the darkness,
Our mind and body relaxes in sleep during nights,
Darkness too has a beauty of its own,
Giving a lot of phenomena a chance to display it's charms.


Do not fear darkness,
Embrace it's strength buried deep within it's deceptive appearance.


K.S.Lakshmi...

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The more I wait for the Prince Charming to appear,
I lose more than just a glass slipper.
The more I wait for the beasts around me to transform,
More beautiful roses wilt away to their melancholic doom.
The more I wait for the Prince to kiss me awake,
The more I sleep away to the moribund state.
The more I plunge into fancy fairy-tales,
I lose myself to the illusive universe.

K.S.Lakshmi...

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I have some amazing collections!

The moon, dark lacunae etched all over,
Broke pearls strung on failed ideas,
Hideous rocks, amassed from my life's path,
A worn-out journal and it's mortifying pages.
The crowds that I always go against,
My unique dancers, shaking a leg with me at times,
And every perfect morn I start by
A waggish baboon that awaits in the mirror to laugh at.



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The ball of fury within my chest,
Growing day by day, full of zest
With the spices of realities, distrust and the conspiracies of the world,
Feeding into the flame, word by word.
And then one day it shall consume the humanity as a whole,
Leaving nothing but an infinite void like a black hole.


I rather put this fire out this instant
Before it destroys me, my people and the mankind.


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God loves, sustains
and protects
all of His devotees
regardless of the
name chosen
to praise Him

inside my global prayer wheel
all the names of God
are humming

I am Allah, I am Jesus
I am Krishna, I am Buddha
I am Jehova, I am Jah,
I am Durga, I am Ahura Mazda
I am Quan Yin, I am Mother Mary,
I am Lakshmi, I am Shiva, I am Brahma
I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am....
...................You...

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You are a poet, your words form a poetry,
You are a magician, you have magic in your authenticity,
You are an artist, I adore your life's artistry,
You are perfect, your imperfections shape your existence with clarity,
You are courageous, I take pride in your bravery,
You are kind, I bow before your heart of charity,
You are a happy soul, I will always love you heartly,
You are rare, I worship you in austerity.

K.S.Lakshmi...

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I want to be like the moon,
A source of guiding light in the dark,
For the people lost in sempiternal darkness.

I want to be like the moon,
Who shines in the gloom, glowing with vigour,
A muse for the lover of arts.

I want to be like the moon, 
Radiant in the luminosity of the sun,
Surrounded by the dancing stars.

I want to be like the moon,
Too far, from everyone's reach,
Yet very close for those who seek.


K.S.Lakshmi...

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Same planet,
Same atmosphere,
The moon we see from our respective places,
It is the same,
The sun drenched in it's golden rays,
The stars that shine beyond it's natural glow,
They are all same for both of us
Living miles away.
But we are apart,
Not by the distances, cities and oceans between us,
But by the walls of misunderstandings
We created,
That have grown into a large realm
Of futile reasons,
And too strong with time
To be broken.....

K.S.Lakshmi...

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You're so busy searching for me among the stars,
When I am right here, next to you, sharing the same space as yours'.

You're so busy decorating my grave with fragrant blossoms,
When I am tangled within the fragrance of your feelings.

You're so busy searching for a sign as the proof of my existence,
When your heart itself beats in rhythms of my whispers.

You're are so busy living for me, for a dead lad,
When I long for you to move on, seek the aim you always had.

K.S.Lakshmi...

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