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Varanasi *
Ganges, dawn, a luminous haze / over the water. The bathing ghats / are busy with the faithful. (But India
@paul-hansford
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CAFE FIGARO
i felt like talking that night / reciting poetry to your big blue eyes / and raw pink mouth smiling
@zebrablack
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An Ode To The Blue Ganges
Dancing the swelled / waves of the deep, / swimming clouds
@shofi-ahmed
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The Indian National Anthem - Rabindranath Tagore
Transliteration: / Jana-gaṇa-mana adhināyaka jaya he / Bhārata bhāgya vidhātā
@Atul
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THE MAJOR'S COMMAND
time and tide waits for none / nor does the soldier of the battle won / swift as the light that pass
@krishnasudhamsu
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Self-Made Prophecies (Of Varanasi)
Myself caught in the heatwave sunlight, brown eyes / furrowed in the sun, scarf loose on my neck/ / the transcendental Denpasar morning-birds
@connor-j
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I witness India on the back of my hand
I say blood / marbled floors / and boats
@KingPanda
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The Arrival of the Ganges
over a snow-covered mountain top in heaven / some secret river lies / stirring not earthwards
@vijayalakshmi-harish
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Journeys to the End of Writer's Block, 1: Magic Carpet
*Sara L Russell 11/11/2015, 01:45am* / I wanted to end writer's block. / So I got on my magic carpet and said "Take me to India."
@sara-l-russell
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That One Belief
Neither in the vividness of the arches of a cathedral, / Nor in the dangling bells and echoing rituals of a temple, / Neither on the holiest banks of Nile or Ganges,
@adil-zaidi
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In it for the money
a lupine prayer / to bear and bull / cry wolf
@dazmb
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Letter
You can see it already: chalks and ochers; / Country crossed with a thousand furrow-lines; / Ground-level rooftops hidden by the shrubbery;
Victor Hugo
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5 liners Collection -1
The Key To Success / A leaf has many veins connected by the midrib, similar to the Corolla in flowers connected by the sepal, / A stem has many leaves, connected through it, even the roots in this design- fibrous or tap are in their own way special,
@MantranaMahiAgarwal
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Coconut, coconut, coconut, crack!
Coconut, coconut, coconut, / Crack! / Stained white on the inside,
@azzanjuma
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Hindoo Folk Song
तत् त्वम् असि / *for sitar, mridangam, vina, musical spoons, / washboard, Jew’s harp and banjo*
@connecthook
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Where is the patriotism?
Where is the patriotism? / Nowadays everyone is diving in the ocean of imagination / Regardless of what is happening to the nation
@vaishnavi-singh
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Krishna Madhava
The Ganges rushes in / torrents from my eyes / and threatens to sweep me
@sonya-ki-tomlinson
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FINGERTIP ( for Shyam )
FINGERTIP / ( for Shyam ) / as a little child
@donall-dempsey
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Early Rest in the Chinatown Cafe
Veasna Ta Kvak recording / playback / over Chinatown cafe again
@connor-j
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Born Screaming......
Tacked tin sheets / promoting brand names / Real local grown food
@dj-thomas
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Henna
*They say that / Van Gogh ate yellow paint / To put the happiness inside him.
@azalea-banks
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Symphony #6: Promethean Choir
*PROMETHEUS!* / Prometheus. You, / Were favored among man.
@chris-tyler-young
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Letter Of Recommendation From My Father To My Future Wife
During the war, I was in China. / Every night we blew the world to hell. / The sky was purple and yellow
Richard Jones
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Where Ships Come to Die
On the mud flats of Padma Delta / where the mighty Ganges slides / into the Bay of Bengal
@magicpoet01
59
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