A Man to Remember Forever
...Vinod, our guide, our teller of tales,
Whose voice was the wind that filled our sails,
Each joke a comet we’d watch with delight,
Returning again to grace our night.
Before the web, before ...
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Categories:
varma, eulogy,
Form: Elegy
The same hair you flirt with
...Fingers in hair you flirt with flair,
Feel fine in fair romantic air,
Why then this sneer on face
And concealed suppressed stress?
What floats in soup’s her piece of hair.
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Categories:
varma, hair, humor,
Form: Limerick
Jasneet Sharma
...Jasneet sharma mat laga baraf par garma,,
Zafar Bhai tujhay phair day ga Varma..
Note.Bachii Bach ja pathan kay qehar say.....
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Categories:
varma, celebrity, dance, for her,
Form: Rhyme
Journey To Varanasi
...Delhi seems closer than it was last time.
After a tea with GST,
on to a backstreet of Varanasi,
Untouched by authority;
ignored more by memory
than darkened by amnesia.
A huge blac...
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Categories:
varma, god, places,
Form: Free verse
Dont Know Me
...He doesn’t know me
Neither do I, him
There is a lake between us
It is full of fish
Those fish are not his.
Neither are they mine.
The connection between us
Is that those fish do not
Bel...
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Categories:
varma, africa, angel, april, art,
Form: Blank verse
Misspelt Swear Words
...No one knew who wrote them or when,
Like cinema posters that changed at regular intervals,
Misspelt swear words appeared on the wall of the urinal.
Written with moss, coal and laterite
They rea...
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Categories:
varma, 9th grade, absence, age,
Form: Imagism
To Raja Ravi Varma
...Oh, Ravi Varma, you are a legend!
When I look at this Indian postage stamp
(brought out in your honour),
a miniature of your self-portrait
with the inset of your painting
of the legendary Da...
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Categories:
varma, art,
Form: Free verse
From the Pretty Shillong Peak
...Day curfew throughout the city
The cavalry, who went on this route,
are missing
And the falling fog ...
nearly wiped their foot prints.
Comes the 'Kojagari' full moon night
The hills are...
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Categories:
varma, beautiful, for her, passion,
Form: Free verse