Tag Archives: poetic story

Ganga ... Gangotri

Ganga: The Eternal Saga The  land  was  barren,  filled  with  the  ashes  of the  YoreFor  their  souls’  salvation,  the  goddess  was  to be  luredBhagirath   atoned    for  many  …

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Dream

Dreams Though perennial, theirs was a fleeting love affair,“Where art thou? Please come back. I’m scared.”The frightened little girl sobbed, looking for himIn a vast edifice, akin to an ancient…

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Blue for Autism Awareness

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose is a Rosewhether it’s red, pink, or blueGod made us in shades of VIBGYORand told us to live those hues. The azure…

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Time 's Cadence

Time leaves all behindon the sepia pages of bygone wynds What was saved from those burning infernoscomes out victorious from the ordeals of time. I held those classic fragments of the…

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राग मल्हार

Deibhidhes is an approximation of the Irish Gaelic poetry form. The actual form needs quatrains made up of lines of only seven syllables each where the last stressed syllable of the first line rhymes with the last unstressed syllable of the second line , and the same pattern to be repeated in the third and fourth lines , with the additional requirement of two alliterative rhyming words in the middle of the third and fourth lines. No restriction on total length of the poem. It’s a Hindi version of Irish Gaelic Deibhidhe Poem.

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Desideratum , Daya Shankar Mishra, Advocate

Desideratum, the Tawny Teak Chair… I was decluttering my house of those amassed memories… Worn out clothes, broken toys, torn books… And some dried flowers buried in those…

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CONVOCATIONS

CONVOCATIONS…An Elegy… My poem is the literal representation of Sufjan Stevens‘s instrumental music album, CONVOCATIONS, released about a month ago which is his musical homage to his deceased father and…

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कैसे गाऊँ गीत सुरीले..

कैसे गाऊँ गीत सुरीले..? सब कहते हैं मन बहला लो कविता रच डालो, कुछ गा लो, पर, सुर फीके, शब्द हैं गीले कैसे गाऊँ गीत सुरीले…? * जब असंख्य नैनों…

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Covid 19

# Covid 19 and The Last Kuru King : A Roseate Sonnet Adorning Kalki on his crown, he bore the sins of his progenitors, Insects were restricted in Parikshit’s abode,…

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When the angels danced

When The Angels Danced On Their Heads: A Greek Folklore Amidst the stillness of eternal night on Mount Olympus, Euterpe stood aghast before her father, King Zeus. The muse of…

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ऐ गुलाब

ऐ गुलाब (O, Rose )… A Roseate Sonnet written in Urdu/ Hindi and translated into English, a classic sonnet which is fashioned into Persian ‘Rubaiyat or Rubaiyaan‘! To know about both…

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Roseate Sonnet

??? Symphony : A Roseate Sonnet ? An ocean sealed in,Some clouds within,Raindrops frolic,but never are seen ! Echoing seven seasin moonstruck dreams,Feigning witheredyet, soul dampening ! Hackneyed kohl smearsand the…

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love couple

She was so lost, was so damn distressed, Yes, she was determined to never get impressed So very confused with so much of fuss She leaded that hopeless life with…

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